Letters and Politics – September 22, 2011
-AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka. -What’s next for the death penalty abolition movement. -Revisiting the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. -CA Nurses and student strikes.
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 – September 21, 2011
Report from Georgia on Troy Davis. Pres Obama address to UN concerning Palestine. History of the death penalty.
Letters and Politics – September 20, 2011
Board of Pardons and Paroles denies Troy Davis clemency. Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the 21st Century.
Letters and Politics – September 19, 2011
Update on Troy Davis Clemency hearing. Dean Baker on Pres Obama’s defecit reduction proposal. David Pakman, host of David Pakman Show, on national politics.
Letters and Politics – September 16, 2011
Former investment banker Nomi Prins on 3rd anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapse. Latest on scheduled Troy Davis execution with Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty. Former San Quentin warden who oversaw 4 executions Jeanne Woodford. Heather Brooke, The Revolution will be Digitized.
Letters and Politics – September 15, 2011
Mohamad ElBaradei, former Chief of the IAEA, Nobel Prize Laureate and potential Presidential candidate in Egypt. In discussion about the continuing revolutionary struggle in Egypt, the so called Arab awakening, Palestine and ElBaradei’s call for an international court to investigate former US officials for war crimes over the Iraq war.
Letters and Politics – September 14, 2011
Rashid Khalidi on the PLO’s push for UN recognition. Barbara Lee on 10 year anniversary of her sole no vote on the Authorization to Use Force Against Terrorists. John Mearsheimer on Why Leaders Lie.
Letters and Politics – September 13, 2011
New Census data on poverty. Congressional Super-committee to reduce deficit holds first hearing. In conversation with Jane Fonda