First Hour: The Sidewalks of NY:Protests and Street Heat Guests: Mtume Gant, Actor, MC, Poet; Suzie Schwartz, Youth Organizer, RNC Not Welcome; Paul Theberge, NY ACLU; Dan Spalding, Midnight Special Law Collective. Hour Two: Inside Us, Inside Politics: The Historical and Spritual Dimensions of Activism Guests: Kristine Drews, Director/Creator, Peace and Sprituality Conference, Oakland, 8/28; … Continued
First Hour: Bottom Up or Top Down: Whither the Greens in 2004? Guests: Green Party Presidential Candidate David Cobb, Green Party United Campaign co-director. Second Hour: Broadening the Net: the Progressive Agenda in an Election year. Guests, Susan Strong, founder, The Metaphor Project (www.metaphorproject.org); Cherie Brown, Director, National Coalition Building Institue (www.ncbi.org) Listener phone-ins and … Continued
First Hour: Fox and the Information Hunt Guests:Robert Greenwald, producer/director, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism" (www.outfoxed.org) and former Fox journalists. Second Hour: Economics and Politics Guests: Robert Meeropol, author, An Execution in the Family: One Son’s Journey (St. Martin’s); Paul Krugman, NY Times columnist, author, The Great Unraveling. (Norton) NOTE: The "Outfoxed" video/dvd and … Continued
First Hour: The Boston Experience, the Convention, and Beyond: A Look at the Democrats Guests: California Democratic Party delegates Heather Pages, Payla Gould, and Kerry campaign adviser Bob Mulholland. Second Hour: Heir to An Execution: The Rosenberg Case and its Relevance Today Guests: Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Listener … Continued
Special Broadcast from the Boston Social ForumUMass Boston Campus, 12-2 p.m. eastern (9-11 a.m. Pacific) Peace, Justice, and the Democratic Party: Is There a 2004 Connection? Invited Guests include: Congressman Dennis Kucinich; former Congresswoman (and Democratic candidate for re-election) Cynthia McKinney; D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton; Boston City Council Member Chuck Turner; American University Law … Continued
First Hour: Thinking the Unthinkable, Doing the Unspeakable: The U.S Government, Secret Prisoners, and Torture Guests Include: Mark Dow, author, American Gulag: Inside U.S Immigration Prisons (California); Banafsheh Akhlaghi, attorney, National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement, San Francisco (tentative). Second Hour: The Media: Three Approaches Guests include: FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein; Danny Schechter, independent video … Continued
First Hour: Feeling the Heat: Fahrenheit 9/11, Truth, and Propaganda Guests: Dale Maharidge, Columbia University School of Journalism, author, Homeland ((Seven Stories Press); Robert Terrell, professor, Communications Department, California State University, Hayward; Mark Crispin Miller, professor, Media Studies, NYU, author, Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order (Norton) (tentative). Second Hour: The Face of the … Continued
Guest host Wes "Scoop" Nisker, author of several books, including The Essential Crazy Wisdom and Buddha’s Nature: A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos. His most recent book is The Big Bang, The Buddha and the Baby Boom. www.wnisker.com
We begin at 9 a.m. with a look at the 9-11 Commission hearings from the point of view of the families of 9/11 victims. We’ll also talk with Sheldon Rampton, co-author of Weapons of Mass Deception: the uses of propaganda in Bush’s war on Iraq. We’ll tell you about Michael Moore’s new film, "Fahernheit 911", … Continued
First Hour Remembering the Real Reagan Guests include Robert Parry, author, Fooling America: How Washington Insiders Twist the Truth and Manufacture the Conventional Wisdom (Dimensions, 1992); Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, ethnic studies professor, Cal State Hayward, author, With Miskitus and Sandinistas in the Undeclared War on Nicaragua (Fall 2004, South End Press); Gray Brechin, georgraphy department, … Continued
