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Living Room

Deadly bombings in Baghdad; the Supreme Court to consider rolling back a century of campaign finance doctrine; climate change bill vs. inexorable climate change.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one. guests: Raed Jarrar, Iraqi blogger and activist; Iraq consultant, American Friends Service Committee         Craig Holman, legislative representative, Public Citizen's Congress Watch         Center … Continued


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Over the Edge – “The Train Show”

Stephen Ronan, Helen Holt, Don.    A three hour rail ride with a couple old hands from the early days of OTE, returning tonight for the first time in years. Railroad Ray reads from his traveling poetry as Miss Information plays horns, flutes, mandolin, and sound devices, interrupted by That Hellbound Train, The Signal Man, and … Continued


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Rock en Rebelion

Algo de los mas reciente en la musica Latina alternativa; El Golpe Traidor.   Produced by  Miguel Guerrero and Issel Campos, with the contributions of Oscar Leon Bernal, Flor Rebollar, Gerardo Fernandez and El Nagual. Music Theme: "El Espía que te amó", from the album "Yendo al cine solo," by José Manuel Aguilera, www.jmaguilera.netCheck us … Continued


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The Bonnie Simmons Show – The music of Richard Thompson

Derk Richardson and Betty Beasley co-host a 4-hour tribute to the music of Richard Thompson, drawing from the soon-to-be-released, career-spanning box set, Walking on a Wire: Richard Thompson (1968–2009), from Shout! Factory Records. On four CDs and 71 tracks—starting from the first album by the seminal British folk-rock band Fairport Convention and finishing with 2007’s … Continued


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Sunday Sedition with Andrea Lewis

This week on Sunday Sedition with host Andrea Lewis: National Lawyer’s Guild president Marjorie Cohn recaps the Sotomayor confirmation hearings; author Chris Hedges discusses his new book the Empire of Illusion; labor journalist Steve Early gets into the trenches of the class wars at home. PLUS: an in-depth conversation with Amy Ray of Indigo Girls