The Jeff Farias Show

Tuesday, March 10 2009

We spoke with activist/musician/filmmaker Chris Chandler celebrating 20 years as a touring artist with a new box set “Fifty from Twenty” Check out Chris’ work at http://www.chrischandler.org

At 3:30 Osagie Obasogie, JD, PhD, is Senior Fellow at the Center for Genetics and Society; Associate Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law in San Francisco; & Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. His writings have spanned both academic & public audiences, with journal articles in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, & Trends in Pharmacological Sciences along with commentaries in outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, & New Scientist. He is a regular contributor to CGS’s blog Biopolitical Times & former director of CGS’s Project on Bioethics, Law, & Society. www.thegenecard.org   

At 4 PM Father Roy activist who is one of the leading voices against the School of the Americas torture academy. http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14336 http://www.sistersofmercy.org/index.php … Itemid=240 http://nacla.org/node/4777 http://ncronline.org/node/2545 http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php Father Roy is threatened with excommunication from the church for his views in support of women in the priesthood Support Father Roy Some have asked for addresses to write their support of Fr. Roy and to ask that he not be excommunicated. Petitions are also appropriate. Please write or fax or email to Pope Benedict XVI, and/or the Pope’s Ambassador to the U.S., the Apostolic Nuncio, and/or the Congregation for Doctrine of Faith, the group that is moving toward excommunication of Fr. Roy Bourgeois, and/or The leaders of the Maryknoll Order. Their addresses are below. ADDRESSES TO WRITE:

Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio 3339 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W Washington, DC, 20008 Telephone: (202) 333-7121 Fax: (202) 337-4036

Pope Benedict XVI 00120 Via del Pellegrino Citta del Vaticano, Europe The Pope’s email address (for English correspondence) is: benedictxvi@vatican.vaThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it FAX from USA: 011-39-06698-85378

Congregation for Doctrine of Faith Piazza del S. Uffizio, 11, 00193 Roma, Italy Telephone: 06.69.88.33.57; 06.69.88.34.13 Fax: 06.69.88.34.09

Please send a cc of any message or petitions you send to: Bill Quigley – Attorney for Fr. Roy 7214 St. Charles Avenue, Box 902 New Orleans, LA 70118 or duprestars@yahoo.com

At 4:30 Allison Pugh author of Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture. Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids’ material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children’s consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults continue to spend billions of dollars on children every year. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie behind the onslaught of Nintendo Wiis and Bratz dolls, Allison J. Pugh spent three years observing and interviewing children and their families. In Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, Pugh teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy, from lunchroom conversations about Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Pugh finds that children’s desires stem less from striving for status or falling victim to advertising than from their yearning to join the conversation at school or in the neighborhood. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10994.php

At 5 PM Dr. Lynne D. Kitei, M.D. Executive Producer, The Phoenix Lights Network Joins us on the upcoming anniversary of the Phoenix Lights phenomenon http://www.thephoenixlights.net http://www.phoenixlights3.com A special screening of the award winning Phoenix Lights documentary will be held at Harkins 14 theaters, Sunday March 15, with showings at 1 pm, 4 pm and 7pm. Riveting NEW information in addition to book signing and Q&A by Executive Producer Dr. Lynne, witness Terri Mansfield & researcher/author Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle. Harkins Shea 14 Theatre [Scottsdale Rd & Shea Blvd] 7354 E. Shea Blvd Scottsdale, AZ Contact: (480) 948-6555 www.harkinstheatres.com Regular movie ticket prices

We also spoke with artist/activist Peter Kuper who is an American alternative cartoonist and illustrator known for his autobiographical, social, and political observations has traveled extensively through Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, much of which he documented in his 1992 book, ComicsTrips: A Journal of Travels Through Africa and Southeast Asia. He lived in Israel in 1969-70. Though permanently based in New York City, Kuper and his wife and daughter have resided in the Mexican state of Oaxaca since 2006, where he has documented an ongoing teachers’ strike. As an illustrator Kuper has produced covers for Time, Newsweek, Businessweek and The Progressive. He has done hundreds of illustrations for newspapers including The New York Times. Kuper has been co-art director of the political illustration group INX [5] since 1988. Besides his contributions to the political anthology World War 3 Illustrated, which he co-founded in 1979 with Seth Tobocman, he is currently best known for taking over Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine; it had passed through various hands after its creator Antonio Prohias retired, but Kuper’s version has appeared without interruption since 1997. Kuper has produced numerous graphic novels which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Greek, including award-winning adaptations of Franz Kafka’s Give It Up! and the Metamorphosis. http://www.peterkuper.com

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