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Monday November 30th, 2009
1st Guest Larry Birns  Executive Director - Council on Hemispheric Affairs  Conservative candidate Porfirio Lobo wins controversial  presidential election in Honduras; Zelaya cries foul. www.coha.org  
2nd Guest Matthew Kavanagh  Director of U.S. Advocacy - Health GAP  On the eve of World AIDS Day, activists give Obama a D+ on programs to combat HIV/AIDS   www.huffingtonpost.com  
3rd Guest Karen Orenstein   Friends of the Earth - policy and research analyst  Thousands of international activists will stage a "People's Summit" in Copenhagen to press world leaders on urgent climate change reforms  www.independent.co.uk  
Week of Mon Nov 23rd to Wed Nov 25th, 2009      
Monday, November 23, 2009 
1st Guest Prof. James W. Loewen  Historian, Author: "Teaching What Really Happened - How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks & Get Students Excited about Doing History." Professor Loewen discusses his new book and the importance of historiography  http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu Listen here
2nd Guest Ellen Shaffer Ph.D. Co-Director, Center for Policy Analysis Senate votes along party lines (60-39) to begin full debate on health-care reform legislation; now what? http://ellenshaffer.blogspot.com  
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
  Throwdown Tuesday!   Open Phones (Thanksgiving) Edition!   Listen here
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
1st Guest Hesham el-Meligy  Muslim community activist Significance of Eid al-Adha; status of effort to have Muslim Eids recognized as official New York City public school holidays http://gothamgazette.com Listen here
2nd Guest Aine Duggan  Vice President/Policy, Research & Education - Food Bank for New York City  New Hunger Report finds 40 percent of New Yorkers are having difficulty affording food; nearly all food pantries and soup kitchens report more first-time visitors  www.foodbanknyc.org  
3rd Guest Sandy Placido  Community organizer - Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights  How forced detention and deportation of lawful permanent residents is devastating thousands of immigrant families http://www.nmcir.org  
4th Guest Benita Jain Esq.  Immigration attorney; Co-Director - Immigrant Defense Project  For families facing and fighting deportation, Thanksgiving is a time of bitter irony  www.immigrantdefenseproject.org  
Week of Wed Nov 18th to Thurs Nov 19th, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
1st Guest Anuradha Mittal Executive Director - The Oakland Institute  How rich investors are endangering food security for the poor by waging an international land grab in developing countries www.oaklandinstitute.org Listen here
2nd Guest Yvonne Liu Senior Research Associate - The Applied Research Center  The new "Green Economy" is not helping those most adversely affected by the current recession; proposed remedies.   www.ipsnews.net  
3rd Guest Algernon Austin Ph.D. Economic Policy Institute Program on Race, Ethnicity & the Economy How to reverse the 30--year decline in "good" U.S. jobs  http://epi.3cdn.net  
Thursday, November 19, 2009 
  Throwdown Thursday!   Open Phones Edition!   Listen here
Week of Monday Nov 9th to Thurs Nov 12th, 2009
Monday, November 9th, 2009 
1st Guest Prof. Marjorie Cohn Professor of Law - Thomas Jefferson School of Law Why Congress was wrong to adopt a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report on the 22-day conflict in Gaza http://www.hrw.org listen here
2nd Guest James Parrott Ph.D.  Chief Economist - Fiscal Policy Institute  Proposed spending cuts in Governor Paterson's Deficit Reduction Plan risk higher unemployment in key service sectors http://www.fiscalpolicy.org  
3rd Guest Ellen Shaffer Ph.D. Co-director - Center for Policy Analysis  HR 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act -- passes in House by narrow margin; next step: U.S. Senate http://www.nytimes.com  
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
1st Guest Rich Benjamin Ph.D. Author - Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America  Rich Benjamin discusses his book and topical issues of race, class and identity in contemporary American culture http://richbenjamin.com Listen here
2nd Guest Adam Federman  Journalist - Earth Island Journal  Environmental hazards remain unresolved as New York prepares for possible gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale  http://www.earthisland.org  
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
1st Guest Colonel [retired] Ann Wright  Former career military officer and diplomat  Women-at-Arms: Post-traumatic stress and rising homelessness take a unique toll among America's women veterans http://www.nytimes.com Listen here
2nd Guest Captain [retired] Michael T. McPhearson  Executive Director - Veterans for Peace  On Veterans' Day, a call to rethink the war in Afghanistan and embrace policies that promote world peace www.veteransforpeace.org  
3rd Guest James Harkness  President - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy  U.S.-China trade and economic relations take center stage as President Obama leaves for Asia http://www.iatp.org/China/  
Thursday, November 12, 2009
  Throwdown Thursday!   Open Phones Edition!   listen here