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| Monday June 28, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elena Kagan confirmation Hearings | Live coverage and analysis of Senate confirmation hearings on Elena Kagan's nomination as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/06/the_opening_statements_of_the.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, June 29, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elena Kagan confirmation Hearings | Live coverage and analysis of Senate confirmation hearings on Elena Kagan's nomination as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elena Kagan confirmation Hearings | Live coverage and analysis of Senate confirmation hearings on Elena Kagan's nomination as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/75979/substance-last | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Week of Mon June 21st to Thurs June 24th, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, June 21, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Guest | Guest Host: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall | Professor of Constitutional Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice | Review of U.S. Supreme Court term; new report on the Status of Black Women and Girls in the United States | http://www.lawandpolicygroup.org/ | LISTEN TO SHOW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Guest | Hayley Hathaway | Communications Coordinator, Jubilee USA | On eve of summit, new report finds G20 nations made "shockingly little progress" in fulfilling their commitments to the world's poorest nations | http://www.jubileeusa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Resources/G20/Jubilee_G20_Making_the_Grade.pdf | LISTEN TO SHOW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Guest | Larry Cox | Executive Director - Amnesty International USA | International human-rights activists gather in Savannah, Georgia for an evidentiary hearing to avert a fourth execution date for Troy Davis, now on death row for nearly two decades | http://www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty/troy-davis-finality-over-fairness/page.do?id=1011343 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd Guest | Benita Jain Esq. | Co-director - Immigrant Defense Project | Two recent Supreme Court decisions in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder and Padilla v. Kentucky reaffirm the constitutional rights of immigrants | http://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Guest | Larry McNeely | Health-care Reform Advocate - US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) | As President Obama unveils a new Patients' Bill of Rights, new research shows health-insurance companies reap record profits from premiums hike | http://www.uspirg.org/health-care | LISTEN TO SHOW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Guest | Daniel J. Losen | Senior Education Law & Policy Associate - the Civil Rights Project @ UCLA | Our public schools are now more segregated than they have been in four decades: why are American schools re-segregating and at what cost? | http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/aboutus/bios/losen.php | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd Guest | Ray McGovern | Veteran intelligence analyst; founding member: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Obama made the right choice in firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal; now he must seize the moment to get out of Afghanistan | http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/25-3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, June 24, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Throwdown Thursday! | Open Phones Edition! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Week of Mon June 14th to Thurs June 17th, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday June 14th, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Guest | Helen Zelon | Contributing Editor - City Limits magazine | The new charter school law authorizes hundreds of new schools but no one knows where the new schools will find seats | http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/4053/hard-math-charter-schools-race-for-space | No Archives available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Guest | Patricia Francois & Yve Laris Cohen | Francois is a member - Domestic Workers United & Cohen is a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice | Advocates launch a week-long series of public demonstrations to press their case for a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights | http://www.domesticworkersunited.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd Guest | David Abdulah | General Secretary - Oilfields Workers' Trade Union; member/supporter of the new People's Partnership Coalition government in Trinidad and Tobago | A new governmment in Port-of-Spain prepares to address the economic and political priorities of Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean | http://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog/?p=3407#more-3407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday June 15th, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Guest | Jennifer March-Joly | Executive Director - Citizens Committee for Children | New survey finds that the recession has pushed an alarming number of New York City children into homelessness | http://www.cccnewyork.org/Web%20Graphics/KT10/IXPPTFINAL.pdf | No Archives available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Guest | John Feffer | Co-director - Foreign Policy in Focus/Institute for Policy Studies | Stealth Superpower: How Turkey is Chasing China to Become the Next Big Thing | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-feffer/stealth-superpower-how-tu_b_611593.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd Guest | Joshua Brollier | Co-coordinator - Voices for Creative Nonviolence | Just back from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Brollier discusses the state of war and its impact on civilians in the two countries | http://vcnv.org/speaker-bio/joshua-brollier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday June 16th, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Guest | Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg | WBAI producers | Live broadcast of municipal labor rally at New York City Hall protesting budget cuts | http://www.1010wins.com/Union-Workers-Protest-Proposed-Job-Cuts-at-City-Ha/7483341 | No Archives available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday June 17th, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Throwdown Thursday! | Open Phones Edition! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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