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At 3 PM PACIFIC At 4 PM MOUNTAIN and LOCAL AZ At 5 PM CENTRAL At 6 PM EASTERN: • Broadcasting live here and simulcast on • Roots Up Radio and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden Call us!: • local: 602-275-4130 • Toll free: 1-800-385-1566 It’s First Amendment Friday – Your soapbox – all topics are on the table. At 5 PM MST Lt Eric Shine updates us on his status. Check Lt Shine’s website. Tune in Saturday Nights for In the Zone with Lt Shine simulcast here from The RBN. At 6:30 PM MST David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. Check out David’s blog

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At 5 PM MST Dr Margaret Flowers returns to discuss her advocacy for single payer insurance. BALTIMORE (Oct. 29, 2009) – Four protesters, including two doctors, were arrested at a “single-payer health care plan” sit-in at the CareFirst insurance company office in Baltimore Thursday. The protest, part of the “Patients Not Profits” campaign of the Mobilization for Health Care for All, was jointly organized by advocacy groups Prosperity Agenda, Healthcare-NOW!, and the Center for the Working Poor. Baltimore was one of 20 cities nationwide to host such protests this week, said Kai Newkirk, national coordinator for the Mobilization in a conference call Tuesday. Charles Loubert of Baltimore, Dr. Eric Naumburg of Columbia, Patricia Courtney of Millersville and Dr. Margaret Flowers were among about 30 protesters chanting “Single Payer Now, Health Care for All” outside the locked front doors of the insurance company office.

At 5:30 PM MST Katherine Spillar – Vice President of Feminist Majority Foundation and Executive Director of Ms Magazine Women have become the majority of paid workers in the United States for the first time in history. Ms. magazine has just released an in-depth feature, Paycheck Feminism, on what a majority-women workforce means for our social policies. Our nation must update an outdated social contract, crafted in the 1930s, to reflect the changed role of women today. Ms. proposes 5 next steps to bring Social Security, health insurance, family and medical leave, childcare, and payroll taxes into the new millennium.

…As we reform the social safety net for the 21st-century economy, we must make sure that women are not left behind. We are at a time of opportunity—the country as a whole is realizing the need to reform many of our New Deal programs that are so important to our economy and to American families. We cannot let this opportunity to increase the economic security of all women—now 50 percent of paid workers—pass us by once again.

Special thanks to the IInstitute for Women’s Policy Research. To view PDF version click here. Karen Kornbluh is a visiting fellow at the Center for American Progress. She served as policy director for then- Senator Barack Obama and founded the Work and Family Program of the New America Foundation. Rachel Homer has interned for the Feminist Majority Foundation, as well as worked for the Democratic National Committee on the 2008 Democratic Platform.

At 6 PM MST Richard J.F. Day to discuss the history & misappropriation of ‘anarchism‘ in the mainstream media. Richard Day’s Ph.D. thesis is a study of ethnic identity and state regulation in Canada since the arrival of the Europeans. It uses Lacanian and Foucaultian theory to analyze and critique the Canadian discourse on ‘ethnic and racial diversity‘ as a public problem requiring rational-bureaucratic solutions. It was published in 2000 by University of Toronto Press as Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. His current work focuses on the broader question of the articulation of social subjects with group identities such as those offered up by nations, states, and capitalist corporations. He is particularly interested in the possibilities for radical social change via the construction of alternative communities and polities. This has led to research into theoretical and practical models derived from western anarchism, Native American political theory, the anti-globalization movement, as well as feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution — that is a sign the revolution is for real. C. Wright Mills

In addition to his academic work, Richard maintains a commitment to strengthening co-operative (non-coercive, non-corporate, non-state) forms of social organization wherever and whenever possible, and is involved in various local and global activist projects.

We spoke earlier with Spider Robinson Since he began writing professionally in 1972, Spider Robinson has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and countless other international and regional awards. Most of his 36 books are still in print, in 10 languages.

“Nobody’s perfect, but Spider comes pretty damned close“ – Ben Bova

His short work has appeared in magazines around the planet, from Omni and Analog to Xhurnal Izobretatel i Rationalizator (Moscow), and in numerous anthologies. The Usenet newsgroup alt.callahans and its many internet offshoots, inspired by his Callahan’s Place series, for many years constituted one of the largest non-porn networks in cyberspace. In 2006, he became the only writer ever to collaborate on a novel with First GrandMaster of Science Fiction Robert A. Heinlein, posthumously completing Variable Star. That same year the Library of Congress invited him to Washington D.C. to be a guest of the First Lady at the White House for the National Book Festival. In 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature. His wife’s Jeanne film project Stardance is here looks like a must-see art project. Diehard Callahan fans can meet up in many esoteric places, such as Second Life or Callahans.org, but remember, All Time Travellers Strictly Cash! Spider On The Web, the FREE podcast, is updated twice a month with fresh content.

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At 5 PM MST Eric Boehlert returns! Eric is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (Free Press, 2006) and Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press (Free Press, 2009). He worked for five years as a senior writer for Salon.com, where he wrote extensively about media and politics. Prior to that, he worked as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. Boehlert has a bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern studies from the University of Massachusetts and is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.

We will discuss his most recent article The Myth of Fox News’ Ratings Spike “Fact: The breathless claim that Fox News’ ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House’s public critique is bogus hype — hype that Fox News and the Beltway press have relentlessly pushed. It’s just not true.”

“… Boehlert’s readable book captures the passion and quirkiness of many of these characters, and charts their role in several game-changing episodes. A senior fellow at Media Matters for America, Boehlert focuses on the liberal blogosphere, dubbed “netroots,” and dismisses conservative bloggers as too attached to yesteryear’s talk radio and largely irrelevant.

Triumphantly and persuasively, though without actual proof, he asserts the blogosphere’s role in John McCain’s “lopsided, Internet-fueled defeat.”

Bloggers, he writes, “helped democratize the process by sapping the mainstream media of some of its previous, oracle-like control over the campaign narratives.” They “vetted Sarah Palin better than the GOP,” “unleashed blog swarms on offensive cable commentators who diminished Democratic candidates” and pushed key issues onto the mainstream media’s agenda.

An army of eyes, ears and memories, bloggers served as a ubiquitous virtual truth squad, different in one vital way from professional journalists: They aggressively took sides.

Who were they? The likes of Robert Greenwald, Hollywood television producer turned viral video maker; Joe Anthony, a paralegal whose Obama MySpace fan page drew 160,000 friends; the “slightly rebellious, unrepentant minister’s daughter” Jane Hamsher; the former professional saxophonist John Amato; ex-mechanic Bruce Wilson; and high school math teacher Stephanie Craig. … “, Jun-Jul.09, “Off the Bus“, book review by Carl Sessions Stepp, American Journalism Review

“If you’re looking for a blog’s eye view of Campaign ‘08, Bloggers on the Bus is a terrifically readable and carefully reported book. Highly recommended.”, – review by Kevin Drum, Tues.5.May.09, Mother Jones

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At 4:30 MST – Mason Tvert is executive director and co-founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation) and the SAFER Voter Education Fund, a national marijuana policy reform organization based in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Tvert appears frequently in national, local and college media to discuss the relative safety of marijuana compared to alcohol and the irrational nature of laws and policies that steer people toward drinking and away from making the safer choice. He has been featured on Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Air America Radio, NPR and BBC Radio, as well as in the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Rolling Stone, among many others. He has contributed columns to various publications, including the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, High Times and Cannabis Culture, and he is co-author of the book, Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?, released by Chelsea Green Publishing in July 2009. He also blogs at Huffington Post

At 5 PM MST – Barbara Ehrenreich is an American feminist, democratic socialist, pop sociologist and political activist, a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books. Most recently Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009)

At 6 PM MST – Dr Bryant Welch returns. Bryant Welch has been a nationally-prominent psychologist/attorney and author for over thirty years. Dr. Welch graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School before receiving his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He is also a Research Associate graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

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At 4:30 MST Joanna Brooks who maintains the blog Ask Mormon Girl Her article “How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck” was picked up by Alternet and the New York Times

Glenn Beck leans forward on his elbows. His voice hushes. His eyes grow red at the corners. He presses his lips together and clears his throat. He cannot speak. The tears fall, and just for a moment the brashest voice in American conservatism today falls silent. This is what happens when Beck tells the story of his 1999 conversion to Mormonism. “I was friendless, working in the smallest radio market I had ever worked in… a hopeless alcoholic, abusing drugs every day,” Beck said in an interview taped last fall. “I was trying to find a job and nobody would hire me… couldn’t get an agent to represent me.”

At 5:30 MST Rick Posner author of “Lives of Passion, School of Hope” Lives of Passion, School of Hope tells how a progressive public school in Colorado has transformed the lives of its alumni. It is about what happens to children and adults when they are encouraged to follow their bliss. It is also about personal empowerment and the development of confidence, curiosity, and compassion in our public schools. This book offers stories and reflections from the alumni of a school where the students hired the teachers, ran their own government, evaluated their own progress, and designed their own curriculum. It’s the story of an extended family of students, staff, and parents who have formed their own community of learners over the course of thirty-eight years.

We also spoke with Sophie Grig campaigner for Survival International regarding their amazing work with the Jarawa tribes of the Andaman Islands

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At 4 PM Bob Cesca returns. Cesca is an American director, producer, writer, actor, blogger, and political commentator. He began his career in media working as an intern for the Don and Mike Show in Washington, D.C. Later, he founded Camp Chaos, an alternative media production studio based near Philadelphia for which he animated and performed voices for the cartoon Napster Bad. He also produced and directed numerous music videos for recording artists including Meat Loaf, Iron Maiden, Yes (band), Mötley Crüe and Everclear, as well as other animated shorts. Beginning in 2006, Cesca edited and directed the animated series Kung Fu Jimmy Chow for Heavy.com. In addition, he conceived and produced ILL-ustrated, a VH1 animated-comedy series which premiered on 17.Oct.03. Cesca is perhaps best known for his articles in The Huffington Post, which he has written since August 2005.

One Nation Under Fear: Scaredy Cats and Fear-Mongers in the Home of the Brave (And What You Can Do About It)

At 4:30 Barbara Friedkin, The Mystic of Cave Creek, has been reading for over 15 years to clients world-wide and is incredibly accurate. Using meditation, prayer and automatic writing she connects her clients with loved ones on the other side. The messages she brings through offer hope, love, humor, and closure for those left behind. Many clients also receive information about future events and unresolved issues. Barbara is a consummate entertainer and storyteller, a gifted psychic medium, sincerely spiritual, and a tender, warm-hearted person. With her background as a comedienne and now as a medium, she reads with great humor, making it a joyful experience. Some people call her the “Comedienne Medium“. Her uncanny ability to hold an audience gently but firmly, while she reveals things she simply couldn’t know, makes for a truly memorable and thoroughly enjoyable occasion. Barbara Friedkin, the Mystic of Cave Creek, is featured in Sherry Ward’s book, “SEEKERS OF THE SOUL” by Sherry Ward As a reporter and feature writer Sherry Ward covered stories that ranged from bookies and diabetes to handwriting analysis and healers.

We spoke earlier today with Starhawk! Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk’s newest book is a picture book for children, The Last Wild Witch. Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese. Her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Starhawk’s writing is influential and has been quoted by hundreds of other authors, turning up in magazines, trade and academic press, and even inspirational calendars. Written by Starhawk is another acclaimed pagan reference, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over Her books are often found in college curriculums. Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community. Her archives are maintained at the Graduate Theological Union library in Berkeley, California. She is a panelist for the Newsweek/Washington Post website on religion, “On Faith,” and also contributes to Beliefnet and ZNet, as well as maintaining her own blog, “Dirt Worship” She consulted on and contributed to the popular trio of films known as the Women’s Spirituality series, directed by Donna Read for the National Film Board of Canada:

·         Goddess Remembered,

·         The Burning Times, and

·         Full Circle.

Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili Productions . Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar made major discoveries about the Goddess cultures of Old Europe. Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture. Starhawk has also made several short documentaries which can be found on YouTube:

·         “The Spiral Dance Ritual“;

·         “Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance—Three Decades of Magic“,

·         “Permaculture in the City” and

·         “Permaculture Principles at Work.”

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her web site Her blog, Dirt Worship!

The Last Wild Witch by Starhawk, illustrated by Lindy Kehoe is special, right from the paper up. It is printed on recycled paper using a soy based ink, so it’s an eco-fable that puts it’s money where it’s mouth is. On the inside cover, it even has the information about what resources were saved by using recycled paper (21 full grown trees and 4, 658 gallons of water). It’s published by Mother Tongue Ink, who publishes the We’Moon Datebook. This is their first children’s book. … Besides being so well written, it is also a book of the times; a way of helping kids to realize that yes, adults have tried to suck the natural magic out of this planet, but you can make a difference! You can work to change things, and you can even teach your parents a thing or two. A lot of the wild places might be gone, but we can work to save what is left and try to heal the rest the best we can.

Illustrator Lindy Kehoe creates a rich, lush, swirly world in The Last Wild Witch with simple, yet gorgeous paintings. From the fabulous royal purple endpapers to the to the trees that are bursting with life and the children that are themselves the richest colors of the earth and sea, rarely has a book had such inviting pages. Together, Starhawk and Lindy Kehoe have together created their own wild magic.

We also spoke with Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) Go to his site Congressman with Guts!

During his first term in office, Grayson gained attention for an exchange with Federal Reserve System Vice Chairman Donald Kohn on the disposition of the $1.2 trillion that the Fed had lent as part of the 2008 bank bailout, during which Grayson said (to Kohn), “…Have people ever said we won’t take your $150 billion because people might find out about it?” and questioned the authority of the Fed in funds dispersal. After the exchange received attention from various national media outlets, Grayson was the subject of an interview on the subject by Salon.com writer Glenn Greenwald. A later hearing, during which Grayson had an exchange with Elizabeth A. Coleman about spending by the Federal Reserve, became widely reviewed on YouTube, receiving nearly 3,000,000 views in the first few months after posting. On March 23, 2009, following the AIG bonus payments controversy, Grayson joined with fellow freshman Democrat Jim Himes of Connecticut to introduce the Grayson-Himes Pay for Performance Act, legislation to require that all bonuses paid by companies that had received funds under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to be “based on performance”. The bill was co-sponsored by eight other members of the House. On March 26, the bill was approved by the House Financial Services Committee by a vote of 38-22. On April 1, the bill was passed by the full House of Representatives by a vote of 247-171. The bill is viewed by some as giving Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies that have received taxpayer bailout money. Grayson is a co-sponsor of the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, which would audit the Federal Reserve. On September 29, 2009, Grayson made a speech regarding health care proposals in the U.S. House. During it he said, “The Republican health care plan is this: ‘Don’t get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.’” His remarks drew immediate calls for an apology from Republicans and condemnation from media sources, and, according to Grayson, resulted in positive emails from constituents which outweighed negative ones four to one and over five thousand supporting campaign contributions. Grayson raised $347,000 for his reelection campaign during the third quarter, much of it attributed to his remarks. Republican Congressman Jimmy Duncan called Grayson’s speech “the most mean-spirited partisan statement that I’ve ever heard made on this floor”. National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Andy Sere said, “This is an unstable man who has come unhinged. The depths to which Alan Grayson will sink to defend his indefensible comments know no bounds.” Grayson described these comments as “Republican hissy fits”, and the next day gave a speech from the House Floor, saying “I would like to apologize: I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America.” He cited a September 2009 Harvard study that found 44,000 Americans die each year due to being uninsured. Grayson, who is Jewish, apologized to the Anti-defamation League for those offended by his generic use of the word ‘holocaust‘. On October 21 Grayson released a website, NamesOfTheDead.com, which, “aims to memorialize Americans who die because they don’t have health insurance.” Shortly after his site was announced, the names listed on the website’s roatating list included fraudulent names. The name rotator was shortly removed. Grayson criticized Senator Jon Kyl who said “I’m not sure that it’s a fact that more and more people die because they don’t have health insurance.″ Republicans accused Grayson of violating campaign ethics guidelines because the website links to Grayson’s campaign website. However, according to Grayson, no formal complaint has been lodged against him Grayson specialized in war profiteer and whistleblower cases aimed at Iraq war contractors who allegedly overbilled the U.S. government. One contractor, Custer Battles, allegedly billed the government $15 million for inspecting allegedly non-existent civilian flights at Baghdad Airport, and $10 million on a time and materials contract that had cost $3.5 million. The contractor received payment in newly printed cash direct from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Grayson was enabled to prosecute fraud through the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions While pursuing the whistleblower cases, Grayson worked from a home office in Orlando where he lived with his wife and five children. In 2006, a Wall Street Journal reporter described Grayson as “waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq” and as a “fierce critic of the war in Iraq” whose car was “emblazoned” with bumper stickers such as “Bush lied, people died”.

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·         3 PM America at Work with Roman and Liz

·         5 PM The Progressive Coalition Show with Leonard Clark

·         6 PM The David Link Show

·         7 PM In the Zone with Lt Eric Shine

SUNDAY

·         9 AM Sunday Morning Coffee with Sarge

SPECIAL OFFER!!

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At 4 PM - Jerelle Kraus is the award-winning New York Times art director whose thirty-year tenure includes a record thirteen years at inimitable Op-Ed. She’s also been an art director at Time & the art director of Ramparts magazine & of Francis Ford Coppola’s City magazine.

The New Yorker & The New York Times magazine have published her writing, including an “On Language” column that subbed for William Safire. Fluent in 4 languages, she was educated at Swarthmore & Pomona Colleges & l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received an MA from UC Berkeley & a Fulbright scholarship to Munich. She is the author of All the Art That’s Fit to Print (and Some That Wasn’t) Inside the New York Times Op-ed Page. We’re thrilled to have her back for another visit!

At 5 PM – Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for many years. He is the author of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy and Why Unions Matter .

Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist’s Travelogue, March 19, 2007 The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado. Cheap Motels and a Hotplate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.

The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know – Michael D, Yates and Fred Magdoff

The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow will bring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economists—the so-called “experts“—still cling to bankrupt ideologies that failed to predict the crisis and offer nothing to explain it. In this short, clear, and concise book, Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates explain the nature of the economic crisis. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors demonstrate that this crisis is not some aberration from a normally benign capitalism but rather the normal and even expected outcome of a thoroughly irrational and destructive system. No amount of tinkering with capitalism, whether it be discredited neoliberalism or the return of Keynesianism and a “new” New Deal, can overcome the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and degradation of the majority of the world’s people by a tiny minority of business owners. While the current economic maelstrom has laid bare the web of greed, corruption, and propaganda that are central to capitalism, only an aroused public, demanding the right to health care, decent employment, a secure old age, and a clean and healthy environment, can lead the United States and the world out of the worst crisis since the Great Depression and toward a system of production and distribution conducive to human happiness. This book is aimed primarily at working people, students, and activists, who want not just to understand the world but to change it.

We also spoke with Sophie Grig campaigner for Survival International regarding their amazing work with the Jarawa tribes of the Andaman Islands http://www.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/ SPECIAL OFFER !! The incredible, one-of-a-kind, collector’s item DI cookbook, titled “Chat Chow” is now available for pre-order sales at the amazing low price of $10.00! And that includes shipping and handling!

The DI Cookbook is a collection of fabulous, fun and liberal-minded recipes created by our very own DI Community. Many of you have contributed your own recipe gems to this book which has arrived for purchase just in time for both holiday cooking and gift-giving.

If you order today, your books will be shipped to you in early November–you’ll have new recipes to choose from for your holiday meal preparations and the more you buy, the more you have to give out as gifts to your family and friends. And what a bargain at just $10.00 each!

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At 3:30 Lewis Dvorkin Founder & Chief Executive Officer Lewis is the founder of True/Slant, an original content news network. Leveraging his 35 years of media experience, Lewis envisioned a new model that combined the values and editorial standards of traditional news with the immediacy and interactivity of the digital medium. As CEO, Lewis leads an experienced team that is realizing this vision. Previously, Lewis was Senior Vice President, Programming at AOL, where he was responsible for News, Sports and Network Programming and played an instrumental role in the launch of TMZ.com. He was also Executive Editor at Forbes magazine, where he spearheaded the magazine’s redesign, managed the annual Forbes 400 Richest Americans list and created the Celebrity 100 List. He was Page One Editor of The Wall Street Journal, a Senior Editor at Newsweek and an editor at The New York Times.

At 4 PM Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and is the co-author of the new book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (Chelsea Green Publishing).

Zack de la Rocha Returns to Phoenix January 16 to Lead National Day of Action – The Feathered Bastard The third time’s the charm, and according to civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the Puente Movement, the pleasure will be ours January 16 as Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion frontman Zack de la Rocha returns to the Arizona capital to lead a National Day of Action.

Will people be marching against Joe Arpaio and the 287(g) program? Nope, says Reza.

“Joe’s a has-been,” said Reza, who’s so far organized two such demonstrations this year, drawing thousands to the cause of the oppressed in Maricopa County. “We’re protesting the Obama administration and the Department of Homeland Security for empowering Arpaio.” …

Bong Water Counts as an Illegal Drug? – via AlterNet From the AP:

In Minnesota, bong water can count as an illegal drug.

That decision from Minnesota’s Supreme Court on Thursday raises the threat of longer sentences for drug smokers in that state who fail to dump the water out of bong — a type of water pipe often used to smoke drugs

The court said a person can be prosecuted for a first-degree drug crime for 25 grams or more of bong water that tests positive for a controlled substance.

Lower courts had held that bong water is drug paraphernalia. Possession of that is a misdemeanor crime.

The case involved a woman whose bong had about 2 1/2 tablespoons of liquid that tested positive for methamphetamine. A narcotics officer had testified that drug users sometimes keep bong water to drink or inject later.

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