The Jeff Farias Show

Wednesday, March 25 2009

At 3:30 Maria Coffey, author of Explorers of the Infinite. The book focuses on the spiritual and paranormal experiences of extreme athletes, including mountaineers, cyclists, ultra-marathoners, and the like. Coffey documents these experiences in terms of the causes (fear, extreme focus, suffering) and the experiences themselves (intense connection, precognition, other types of extra sensory perception, ghosts). This matrix of spiritual and extreme physical that underlies the book touches on a number of religious traditions and world-views and illuminates common experiences. Coffey also presents skeptical, scientific explanations for a number of the seemingly paranormal experiences. Her website is http://www.hiddenplaces.net/

At 4 PM Conn Hallinan is an analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus, and a columnist for the Berkeley Daily Planet. He formerly ran the journalism program at the University of California at Santa Cruz for 23 years and was a college provost. He retired in 2004 to concentrate on writing about foreign policy. He has a PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley. Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a “Think Tank Without Walls” connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner. It is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. http://www.fpif.org/

At 4:30 Marcia Kuntz is the Editorial Director at Media Matters for America. Kuntz most recently ran the Alliance for Justice’s Judicial Selection Project, where she had primary responsibility for all reports, op-eds, and other written materials produced by the project. Previously, she served as minority counsel for the housing subcommittee of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services and as legislative counsel to Representative Barney Frank (D-MA). Kuntz is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. http://www.mediamatters.org We will discuss the launch of Financial Media Matters http://www.financialmediamatters.org a website dedicated to holding accountable those who report on the financial and business industry as well as those who report on labor, economic, and other fiscal matters.

At 5 PM Stephen Kinzer - author & journalist For several months last year, hundreds of students at the City Colleges of Chicago studied Stephen Kinzer’s “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq.” Their discussions, in classrooms and at a specially convened assembly, plus documentary footage from US interventions and interviews with Kinzer, were combined into a four-part television series broadcast on a Chicago public television station, WYCC, in January. A DVD of the series, two hours in total, is available at: http://stores.lulu.com/wycc http://www.stephenkinzer.com/events.html http://www.stephenkinzer.com/index.html

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