At 00:30 Friend-of-the-show Mikey Weinstein, founder of The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, returns!
Weinstein is an attorney, businessman and former Air Force officer. He is founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and author of With God on Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military (ISBN 978-0312361433) in which he describes his fight against alleged coercive evangelistic practices by some members of the military.
Weinstein graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 and later served as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) for ten years. He also spent over three years in the West Wing of the Reagan White House as legal counsel in the White House. In his final position there, Weinstein was named the Committee Management Officer of the much-publicized Iran-Contra Investigation in his capacity as Assistant General Counsel of The White House Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President of the United States.
In October 2005, Weinstein sued the United States Air Force for permitting proselytization by evangelical Christian officers.
· Gunning for the First Amendment
· Military weapons inscribed with ‘Jesus’ Bible codes
· Company backs down over gunsight bible citations
At 01:00 Friend-of-the-show Judy Rebick returns!
…this, too, is part of a World-wide movement!
Because those things that have divided the Lovers of Peace & Justice in the Past -whether we are of religious traditions, of spiritual traditions, whether we are of political traditions, of social traditions, whatever movement, wherever we come from- we know something: that the Power of The People, who love Peace & Democracy & Justice, is greater than the Power of Guns & Money!…
Judy Rebick is the author of Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political and was the founding publisher of Rabble, Canada’s most popular independent online news and discussion site. Author of many books & articles, Judy also holds the CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University.
Judy wrote Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005). Her other books are Imagine Democracy (Stoddard 2000) and Politically Speaking (Douglas & McIntyre 1996).
During the 1990’s, Judy was the host of two national TV shows on CBC Newsworld and a frequent commentator on CBC radio and television. She also contributes commentaries to a host of newspapers and magazines. Judy is perhaps best known to Canadians as a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada’s largest women’s group. In the 1980’s she was active in the pro-choice movement and in coalitions to win employment equity federally and in the province of Ontario.
She blogs @ Transforming Power & Znet Magazine.
Judy joins us today to discuss recent dramatic successes in a Canadian national pacifist protest: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, the validity of FaceBook protest, as well as, pacifist techniques in group organizing. How would you organize a pacifist event in your community?
At 02:00 a visit from our Poet-in-Residence Laurence Overmire.
Laurence Overmire is an emerging voice for conscience and consciousness in the poetry world. Popularly known as “The Genealogist-Poet,” he has had a multi-faceted career as writer, actor, director and educator.
His award-winning poetry, eclectic in form, style, and subject matter, and often provocative in its direct confrontation of social issues, has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad in hundreds of magazines, journals, and anthologies.
His plays include Slingshot, A Woman in Washington’s Army, and A Scrooge Mart Christmas Carol.
Join us for part of our series of weekly visits with our ‘Poet in Residence’ Laurence Overmire.
His latest book REPORT FROM X-STAR 10
A world in crisis: Economic. Political. Social. Spiritual. The climate changing, the stock market plunging. Species becoming extinct. Disease, famine, overpopulation. War. Nuclear annihilation?
Revolution or evolution?
Where is mankind heading? What is the fate of human civilization on our little Planet Earth?
02:15 PM MSTFriends-of-the-show, Scott Horton & Andy Worthington return! Tonight, we’ll share this afternoon’s panel conversation with Scott and Andy regarding Scott’s article in Harper’s The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle exposing the potential cover-up and murder of three Gitmo prisoners whose deaths were labeled suicide.
Scott Horton is a New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law, especially human rights law and the law of armed conflict, Horton lectures at Columbia Law School. A life-long human rights advocate, Horton served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union. An acclaimed editor for Harpers Magazine, Scott blogs with No Comment
Andy Worthington A British historian and journalist, Andy has published three books and published in numerous publications. Worthington is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post & TJFS.
Worthington’s most recent book is The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison. Following its publication in October 2007, Worthington has published articles supplementing the information in his book, to track new developments.
When summing up other books on Guantanamo, Friend-of-the-Show, Michelle Shephard, author of Guantanamo’s Child described his book as: “Perhaps the single most important book to cover the big picture of Guantanamo“, even though he “has never even been to Guantanamo Bay.”
Stephen Grey, writing in The New Statesman, called the book: “a powerful, essential and long-overdue piece of research“.
