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| Monday May 3rd, 2010 | |||||
| 1st Guest | Prof. Marjorie Cohn | Professor of Law - Thomas Jefferson School of Law | Arizona anti-immigrant law legalizes racial profiling; Obama intensifies search for successor to retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens |
http://www.marjoriecohn.com/ | |
| 2nd Guest | Michelle Fei Esq. | Deputy Director - Immigrant Defense Project | Arizona anti-immigrant law underscores urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform |
http://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org | |
| 3rd Guest | John Burroughs J.D., Ph.D. | Executive Director - Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy | As nations gather in New York for a review conference, it's time to get serious about the Problems and Solutionsconfronting the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty |
http://www.lcnp.org | |
| Tuesday, May 4th 2010 | |||||
| 1st Guest | Barbara Kennelly | President & CEO - National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare | Warning to deficit hawks: Social Security must not be used as a piggy bank to reduce the national deficit | http://www.ncpssm.org | Listen here |
| 2nd Guest | Bobbie Sackman | Director of Public Policy - New York City Council of Senior Centers and Services | Amid tough economic times, at least 50 Senior Centers are targeted for closure as City Hall looks to slash spending |
http://cscs-ny.org | |
| 3rd Guest | Tyson Slocum | Director of Energy Policy - Public Citizen | Gulf of Mexico oil spill is just the latest outrage from BP, hich previously has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for environmental crimes and safety violations |
http://publiccitizenenergy.org | |
| Wednesday May 5th, 2010 | |||||
| 1st Guest | Craig Aaron | Managing Director - Free Press | Journalism's crisis is public media's opportunity | http://www.huffingtonpost.com | Listen here |
| 2nd Guest | Asim Rehman | President - Muslim Bar Association of New York | The attempted car bombing in Times Square must not be misused as an excuse for racial, religious or ethnic profiling | http://muslimbarny.org/ | |
| 3rd Guest | Sharon Gordon & Carlyle McKetty | Coalition to Preserve Reggue | Who Mash Up Reggae? | http://www.jamaicans.com | |
| Thursday, May 6th 2010 | |||||
| Throwdown Edition | *Phone system down today | One-hour opening monologue; rebroadcast of interview with Chris Hedges, re: Empire of Illusion - The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle |
http://talktohugh.wordpress.com | Listen here | |
| Monday, May 10th 2010 | |||||
| 1st Guest | Prof. Marjorie Cohn | Professor of Law - Thomas Jefferson School of Law | If confirmed, President Obama's choice of Elena Kagan to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens will move the U.S. Supreme Court to the right |
http://www.marjoriecohn.com | Listen here |
| 2nd Guest | James Parrott Ph.D. | Chief Economist, Deputy Director - Fiscal Policy Institute | Is the recession over in New York City? The answers may be complex… |
http://www.fiscalpolicy.org | |
| 3rd Guest | Pacifica Radio Archives | Lena Horne Interview | Remembering Lena Horne: rebroadcast of April 12, 1966 interview with Horne from Pacifica Radio Archives |
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| Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 | |||||
| Throwdown Tuesday | Special Open Phones Edition |
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| Wednesday, May 12th 2010 | |||||
| Fundraiser: Howard Zinn Speaks! | Opening Day of Spring Fundraising Drive | Listen here | |||