11:00 AM Fridays
The Democrats folded – but this isn’t poker. Robert Borosage takes us through this week of wheeling and dealing, of life and death. PLUS: The Radical Performance Fest. And your phone calls! With host Kris Welch. Guests: Robert Borosage, pres. Institute for America’s Future, co-dir. Campaign for America’s Future; past dir. Institute for Policy Studies … Continued
"Shut Up and Sing" looks at the backlash against the best-selling band the Dixie Chicks after they spoke out against President Bush on the eve of the Iraq invasion.
The Imus Affair: who started it (hint: our guest!), where will it end? Plus: Ned Sublette illustrates his theory connecting Cuban and Cajun, musically speaking. Yowza! With host Kris Welch. Guests: Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America Ned Sublette, author (Cuba and Its Music; The World That Made New Orleans)
A Boycott to end the war on April 15. The latest international report on global warming. With host Kris Welch. Guests: Peter Phillips, Project Censored, www.wearenotbuyingit.org Ben Dunham, U.S. PIRG, D.C.
He was a founding member of the Black Panther Party, where he was Deputy Minister of Information and a designated spokesperson. Today he is a lecturer, writer, community and political activist. He is Big Man, and our guest today. With host Kris Welch. Guests: Daniel del Solar, "Reel Venezuela" Film Festival Elbert "Big Man" Howard, … Continued
Well, they did it: voted for the Iraq War Appropriations bill. What progressives do now. With host Kris Welch. Sheldon Rampton, research dir., Center for Media and Democracy Bill Moyer, exec. dir. Backbone Campaign
