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Wednesday Dec 30th, 2009
1st Guest Brenda Wright Esq.  Director - The Democracy Program at Demos  In support of a bill to end prison-based gerrymandering by counting prisoners as residents of their communities of origin, not as residents of the districts where prisons are located. www.demos.org LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Saul Landau   Author, scholar, film maker, professor & public commentator  An assessment of President Barack Obama's (almost) one year in office  www.ips-dc.org  
Thursday Dec 31st, 2009
  Throwdown Thursday & Auld Lang Syne     Auld Lang Syne & Open Phones Edition!    LISTEN TO SHOW
 
Week of Mon Dec 21st to Tues Dec 22nd, 2009  
Monday Dec 21st, 2009
1st Guest Marjorie Cohn Esq. Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Immediate past president, National Lawyers Guild  Year-end round-up of major political and legal developments in U.S. foreign and domestic  policy www.marjoriecohn.com  
2nd Guest Joanne Lin Esq.   Legislative Counsel, ACLU  A discussion of key provisions in HR 4321 (CIR-ASAP):  The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for American's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009  www.aclu.org  
Tuesday Dec 22nd, 2009
  Holiday Throwdown Tuesday!    Holiday Open Phones Edition!     
 
Week of Mon Dec 14th to Thurs Dec 17th,  2009  
Monday Dec 14th, 2009
1st Guest Clara Hemphill Senior Editor, Center for New York City Affairs - The New School  Task Force finds that juvenile jails in New York State are broken, ineffective and in a state of crisis  www.nytimes.com  
2nd Guest Daphne Wysham  Co-Director: Sustainable Energy and Economy Network  How current cap-and-trade and carbon offset proposals are undermining genuine progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions  www.huffingtonpost.com  
3rd Guest Benjamin Dulchin Executive Director - Association For Neighborhood and Housing Development New report  reveals an impending default crisis that will affect as many as 100,000 affordable apartments in New York City www.anhd.org  
Tuesday Dec 15th, 2009
1st Guest Capt. Paul Washington  Ex-President - The Vulcan Society; Captain - New York City Fire Department  City Council considers a bill that will give an 8-point bonus to Fire Department applicants who are graduates of New York City high schools  www.nydailynews.com  
2nd Guest Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Esq.  Professor of law,CUNY; Executive Director - Law & Policy Group  Race, International law and the African-American experience; Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize  www.pen.org  
Wednesday Dec 16th, 2009
1st Guest Stephen Zunes Ph.D.   Professor of Politics and International Studies - University of San Francisco  An update on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the situation in Gaza one year after the Israeli military's Operation Cast Lead    www.stephenzunes.org  
2nd Guest Milton Allimadi  Editor-in-chief - The Black Star newspaper   Year-end round-up of U.S.policy in Africa www.blackstarnews.com  
Thursday Dec 17th, 2009
  Throwdown Thursday!    Open Phones Edition!     
 
Week of Monday Dec 7th to Thursday Dec 10th, 2009  
Monday, December 7th, 2009
1st Guest Josh Bivens Ph.D.  Senior Economist - Economic Policy Institute (EPI) To stem the U.S. jobs crisis, EPI outlines a proposal to create 4.6 million jobs at a cost of $400 billion. http://www.epi.org Listen here
2nd Guest Craig Aaron  Senior Program Director - Free Press  The proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal will be harmful to consumer interests and usher in a new era of runaway media consolidation  http://www.philly.com  
3rd Guest Larry Birns  Executive Director - Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)  The significance of Evo Morales' re-election by a landslide as President of Bolivia  www.guardian.co.uk  
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
1st Guest Re-broadcast of Presidential Jobs Speech  President Barack Obama's Jobs Speech delivered at the Brookings Institution  Obama outlines plan to promote job creation through private sector stimulus and investment in public infrastructure  www.whitehouse.gov Listen here
2nd Guest Peter Montgomery  Senior Fellow - People for the American Way The Rise of the New McCarthyism: How right-wing extremists are trying to paralyze government through ideological smears and baseless attacks  http://site.pfaw.org  
3rd Guest Antonia Juhasz  Global Exchange oil expert; author of The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do to Stop It.   U.S. and Western oil companies prepare for bidding a war over contracts to develop Iraqi oil fields  www.globalexchange.org  
Wednesday December 9th, 2009
1st Guest Marc Mauer  Executive Director - The Sentencing Project  Despite declining prison populations in 20 states, U.S. incarceration rate remains highest in the world and racial disparity remains dramatic  www.sentencingproject.org Listen here
2nd Guest Karen Dolan  Senior Fellow - Institute for Policy Studies  America's social safety net, heavily eroded over the past 30 years, is failing millions amid the worst recession in three quarters of a century  www.ips-dc.org  
3rd Guest Rebekah Cook-Mack Esq.  Staff attorney - Foreclosure Prevention Project, South Brooklyn Legal Services  An occasional seminar on settlement conferences, loan modification procedures and other foreclosure prevention strategies  http://www.sbls.org  
Thursday December 10th, 2009
  Throwdown Thursday!  Obama's Nobel peace Prize Lecture  Open Phones Edition  www.whitehouse.gov Listen here
 
Week of Tuesday Dec 1st to Thursday Dec 3rd, 2009  
Tuesday December 1st, 2009
1st Guest Scott Long Ph.D.  Program Director - Human Rights Watch  In several countries, punitive laws threaten progress on AIDS prevention and treatment; respect for human rights is critical in global response to AIDS  http://www.hrw.org  
2nd Guest Norman Solomon  Executive Director - Institute for Public Accuracy  Amid a 30,000-strong  troop surge in Afhganistan, few Democrats are prepared to deny funding to the war effort  http://original.antiwar.com  
3rd Guest David Dyssegaard-Kallick  Director of Immigration Research - Fiscal Policy Institute  In the nation's 25 largest metro areas, immigrants are contributing to the economy at levels commensurate with their share of the population  www.fiscalpolicy.org  
Wednesday December 2nd, 2009
1st Guest Live coverage from Capitol Hill  Secretaries Clinton & Gates; Joint Chiefs Chairman  Mullen testify on U. S. Strategy in Afghanistan  U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs  http://foreignaffairs.house.gov  
Thursday December 3rd, 2009
  Throwdown Thursday!   Open Phones Edition!   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  
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