The Jeff Farias Show

Wednesday, February 11 2009

Earlier today we spoke with Helen Benedict the author of five novels and five books of nonfiction. Her feature article “The Scandal of Military Rape,” appeared in the Fall 2008 issue of Ms. magazine and is available online at http://www.msmagazine.com. Her new nonfiction book, THE LONELY SOLDIER: THE PRIVATE WAR OF WOMEN SERVING IN IRAQ, will be out from Beacon Press in April 2009. Benedict’s play based on the book, THE LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES, is to be performed in New York City at The Theater for the New City from March 5-22, and at La MaMa on March 17. Her article on the subject, “The Private War of Women Soldiers” (Salon, March 2007) was awarded The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2008. For other articles on women soldiers, see Essays and links to left. Benedict’s newest novel, THE EDGE OF EDEN, set in Seychelles in 1960, is to be published by Soho Press in November, 2009. Her other novels are THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE, THE SAILOR’S WIFE, BAD ANGEL and A WORLD LIKE THIS. Her nonfiction includes VIRGIN OR VAMP: HOW THE PRESS COVERS SEX CRIMES, PORTRAITS IN PRINT and RECOVERY: HOW TO SURVIVE SEXUAL ASSAULT. Helen Benedict’s articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon, Ms., In These Times, The Women’s Review of Books, The Nation and elsewhere. She is a professor of journalism at Columbia University. learn more at http://www.helenbenedict.com

At 5 PM Ron Ridenour - Latin America, Caribbean, US Freedom Riders… Books are: “Cuba at Sea”; “Cuba. Beyond the Crossroads”; “Cuba: A “Yankee” Reports”, “Backfire: The CIA’s Biggest Burn”; “Cuba at the Crossroads”; “Yankee Sandinistas”. Co-author: “Revolutionære Visioner”; “Eyes See What Eyes Want to See: Western Media and the Peace Movement”; “Mood Pictures from a Central American Peace March, “Glass House Tapes”. http://www.ronridenour.com/about.htm http://www.ronridenour.com/themes.htm

at 6 PM Nathan Harvey from Brave New Foundation Launches Online Campaign on Foreclosure Crisis http://www.FightingForOurHomes.com shows that banks are not negotiating loans despite federal bailout. This morning, Brave New Foundation sent an email to its list of 1.2 million supporters, asking for user-generated YouTube videos of people impacted by the housing crisis. Included in the email was a new BNF documentary video documenting a campaign by One LA, the Industrial Areas Foundation’s LA Chapter, to organize hundreds of families to collectively bargain with the banks. Brave New Foundation has teamed up with groups including ACORN and US Action which are on the ground working with families to save their homes. This new tool will help to ensure that homeowners, individually and collectively, are part of the national debate. Future activities from these and other groups will be added to the site as they happen, effectively creating a real-time snapshot of the foreclosure crisis in America.

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