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
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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.
Letters and Politics – December 8, 2011
Round table discussion on Occupy Movements plan to shut down west coast ports on Monday. Boots Riley of the Coup, Barucha Peller, Leo Ritz Barr & Ali.
Letters and Politics – December 7, 2011
Congress takes up tax payroll holiday, Mumia Abu Jamal’s death sentence is changed to life without parole and labor historian Sean Burns on the epic labor struggles on the docs.
Letters and Politics – December 6, 2011
In conversation with Frances Fox Piven, report on climate change talks from Durbin, South Africa and History of Science series with Dava Sobel on Copernicus.
Letters and Politics – December 5, 2011
Episode 1 of series on History of Science. Stephen Greenblatt, Swerve: How the World Became Modern.