| 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 | |||