Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – December 20, 2011
Astra Taylor and Keith Gessen, co-editors of Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America, Sara Morgan, editor of the Oakland Occupy Tribune, and Anne Emanuel, author of Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution.
Letters and Politics – December 19, 2011
Paul Liem, Korea Policy Institute on the death of Kim Jung Il. Jeff Patterson, of Courage to Resist, from the pre-military trial of Bradley Manning. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – December 16, 2011
Exploring Occupy/Labor dynamic with labor historian Stanley Aronowitz and labor journalist Evan Rohan. Remembering Christopher Hitchens.
Letters and Politics – December 14, 2011
GTMO’s historic role in US Imperialism with Jonathan Hansen, author of Guantanamo: An American History. Also latest details of controversial provisions in the Defense Authorization Act and unemployment extension with Alice Ollstein, FSRN Capitol Hill Correspondent.
Letters and Politics – December 13, 2011
Juan Gonzalez: News for All the People.
Letters and Politics – December 12, 2011
Coverage up and down the West Coast as the Occupy Movement attempts to shut down the ports.
Letters and Politics – December 9, 2011
Senate Republicans block nomination of Richard Cordroy to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Analysis of international climate change talks with Brian Edward Tiekert. Native Americans raise concern about the term “Occupy” in the Occupy Wall St Movement. Michael Steele on Afghanistan.