GUEST CREDENTIALS TOPIC INFORMATION LISTEN TO SHOW
Monday, January 25th, 2010
1st Guest Brenda Wright Esq. Director - The Democracy Program - Demos  In deciding Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court has unveiled the "Anatole France interpretation" of the First Amendment  http://www.acslaw.org LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Robert Jensen Ph.D. Professor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin  Media failures in Haiti: Great Television/Bad Journalism  http://www.counterpunch.org  
3rd Guest Gerald LeMelle  Executive Director - Africa Action  Recommended priorities in U.S.-Africa relations: Africa Policy Outlook 2010   http://www.africaaction.org  
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 
1st Guest Denise Hart  Deputy Director - Food and Water Watch  How Rockland County could end up paying for an unnecessary water desalination plant www.foodandwaterwatch.org LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest David Jason Fischer  Project Director for Workforce Development - Center for an Urban Future  New report warns that New York City is "on the verge of an unprecedented human capital crisis;" more than a quarter of all adult New Yorkers lack adequate literacy skills  http://www.nycfuture.org  
3rd Guest Jo Comerford  Executive Director - National Priorities Project  With President Obama poised to seek a spending freeze on some discretionary programs, a look at possible budget alternatives http://www.nationalpriorities.org/  
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
1st Guest Catherine Y. Kim Esq.  Staff Attorney - ACLU Racial Justice Project  ACLU files lawsuit in federal court challenging "abusive practices" by NYPD school safety officers in city schools  http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Helen Zelon  Journalist, education policy analyst  Despite protests, mayor-dominated educational panel votes to close 19 additional public schools  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/nyregion/28closings.html  
3rd Guest Susan Grant  Director of Consumer Protection - Consumer Federation of America  Consumer advocates raise the alarm over debt settlement schemes that defraud unsuspecting users http://www.consumerfed.org/  
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
  Throwndown Thursday!   Open Phones Edition!   LISTEN TO SHOW
Week of Mon Jan 18th to Thurs Jan 21st, 2010      
Monday, January 18th, 2010
1st Guest Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Fundraiser) The Other America; I Have a Dream & other speeches  Selected speeches by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King   LISTEN TO SHOW
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 
1st Guest Fritz Gutwein  Coordinator - The Haiti Project at The Quixote Center  An update on emergency relief operations and organizations in Haiti  http://quixote.org/haiti LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Haley Hathaway  Communications Director - Jubilee U.S.A. Network  Why international creditors and lending institutions must cancel all remaining debt owed by Haiti  http://www.jubileeusa.org  
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
1st Guest James Parrott Ph.D.  Chief Economist - Fiscal Policy Institute  Assessing the impact of Governor Paterson's executive budget for FY 2011  http://www.nytimes.com LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Prof. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall  Professor of Law - John Jay College of Criminal Justice & CUNY Graduate Center  A review of recent, selected U.S. Supreme Court decisions and their implications for communities of color  http://www.pen.org  
3rd Guest Sduduzo Ka-Mbili; Sifiso Mavuso; Tuello Kgobokwe; Bafana Matea  Cast of Juxtapower Theatre Company's "Got Zulu!"  Discussing music and dance traditions of South Africa, and their forthcoming Black History Month feature performance at Dance New Amsterdam http://www.dnadance.org  
4th Guest Nicole Falade; Myriam Augustin; Lilly Cerat  Haitian American educators and activists Why it is important to support grass-roots, community-based Haitian-led organizations in the emergency relief effort for Haiti http://haitianwomen.wordpress.com/  
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 
  Throwdown Thursday!    Open Phones Edition!   LISTEN TO SHOW
Week of Mon Jan 11th to Thurs Jan 14th, 2010      
Monday, January 11th, 2010
1st Guest Jamie Fellner Esq.  Senior Counsel - Human Rights Watch  1 in 10 U.S. children in juvenile facilities reports sexual abuse and victimization by staff  http://bjs.ojp LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Bruce Dixon  Managing Editor - Black Agenda Report  Black Politics is Over: Black politicians no longer believe social justice is possible  www.blackagendareport.com  
3rd Guest Stephen Zunes Ph.D.  Chair, Middle Eastern Studies  Program - University of San Francisco  A background study and analysis of Yemen: the latest U.S. battleground  www.huffingtonpost.com  
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
1st Guest Phyllis Bennis  Director, New Internationalism Project - Institute for Policy Studies  Barely Making the Grade: A Review of President Barack Obama's First Year in Office  www.ips-dc.org LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Kevin Alexander Gray  Author - Waiting for Lightning to Strike: the Fundamentals of Black Politics  Gray discusses his thesis on the ascent and decline of black political leadership www.blackbooksdirect.com  
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
1st Guest Marguerite Laurent; Lionel Legros  Haitian community activists  Assessing the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti; fielding local reaction www.cnn.com LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Joycelyn Gill-Campbell & Patricia  Francois; Amanda Altman  Members: Domestic Workers United; Jews for Racial and Economic Justice  Why the New York State legislature must adopt the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights www.domesticworkersunited.org  
Thursday, January 14, 2010 
  Throwndown Thursday    Open Phones Edition with opening monologue on the history of Haiti    LISTEN TO SHOW
Week of Mon Jan 4th to Thurs Jan 7th, 2010      
Monday January 4th, 2010
1st Guest Anne E. Sovcik Esq.  Advocacy Counsel, Human Rights First  Advocates welcome new "parole guidelines" for persons seeking asylum in the United States  www.humanrightsfirst.org LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Helen Zelon  Journalist & Researcher  A new report from the teachers' union (UFT) says charter schools are not serving a representative sample of public school children www.uft.org  
3rd Guest Lee Farris  Senior Organizer on Estate Tax Policy - United for a Fair Economy  Permanent repeal of the estate tax -- which expired on December 31, 2009 -- could cost $1.3 trillion over 10 years  www.faireconomy.org  
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 
1st Guest Ibrahim Hooper  Communications Director - Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)  Why new airport screening rules are tantamount to racial, ethnic and religious profiling www.cair.com LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Olara Otunnu  Ugandan opposition presidential candidate; former U.N. Under-Secretary General U.S. and other western nations have turned a blind eye to genocide in northern Uganda and supported the Museveni government despite economic failure and human-rights abuses  www.youtube.com  
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 
1st Guest Dick Dadey  Executive Director - Citizens Union Foundation  Analysis: Governor David Paterson proposes wide-ranging ethics and campaign finance reforms in his second state-of-the-state address www.state.ny.us LISTEN TO SHOW
2nd Guest Evan Wolfson  Executive Director - Freedom to Marry Advocates for marriage equality are celebrating 2009 as "the winningest year yet" in the movement to secure same-sex marriage  www.freedomtomarry.org  
3rd Guest Ret'd Colonel Ann Wright  Peace activist; former U.S. diplomat and retired army colonel  Just back from Cairo, Wright reviews solidarity actions held to mark the anniversary of Israel's military Operation Cast Lead in Gaza  www.gazafreedommarch.org  
Thursday January 7th, 2010
  Throwdown Thursday!    Open Phones Edition!    LISTEN TO SHOW