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at 4:15 Vanessa Lanza began working with CAST in December 2008 as the Outreach Coordinator for CAST.  In this capacity, she provides strong program development and oversight, community outreach and organizing, training and technical assistance, and recruitment and training for volunteer activities.  She is currently managing a Southern California Regional Outreach program funded by the US Dept of Health and Human Services, as well as a State Department funded program in Mexico. She brings with her proven program management and public relations skills, as well as a successful track record in working with volunteers and stakeholders in a collaborative setting.    Vanessa has a Masters of Arts in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Western Washington University.  Prior to her work with CAST, she worked with Oxfam America, a humanitarian and development organization,  as well as the World Health Organization Office at the United Nations.

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It’s First Amendment Friday. Your soapbox all topics are on the table.

At 4 PM Lt. Eric Shine will discuss his case.

At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. See David’s website at

http://www.davideatworld.com

We expect an update from activist, teacher, Iraq war Vet Leonard Clark and author Deborah O’Dowd.

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At 3:30 Michelle Collins is a reporter with Embassy “Canada’s Foreign Policy Newsweekly,” based in Ottawa. Embassy covers Canadian foreign policy & international affairs focusing on such areas as trade, international development, bilateral relations, immigration, & Afghanistan. Our core readership includes politicians, bureaucrats, the foreign diplomatic community in Ottawa & the Canadian diplomatic corps abroad, as well as academia & civil society interested in foreign affairs. We are sister-paper to ‘The Hill Times’. Michelle Collins has been with Embassy for a year and a half. She has a bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University. She has written for The Globe and Mail, the Edmonton Journal, and Global TV Toronto. In 2007, Michelle was awarded a Fraser MacDougall Journalism Prize, sponsored by the Ontario Press Council, for her article published in “Beyond the Hill”, a magazine distributed by the ‘Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians’, about the challenges facing embedded reporters in Afghanistan. In a debate over perception and reality, a war of words, a dispute of numbers, and, in the end, a battle for votes, the Colombian government has officially deployed its biggest guns in its bid to secure a free trade deal with Canada.

http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/colu … -6-17-2009

Calling for an Anti-Protectionist Strategy to Go with Rhetoric

http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/anti … -6-17-2009

At 4 PM Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa’s work continued to grow in popularity and impact with the continuation of his weekly column syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group, now appearing in dozens of newspapers worldwide with a combined circulation of more than 3 million. In addition to the column and various speaking engagements, Mr. Vargas Llosa wrote and hosted the 4-part National Geographic television documentary, “Consecuencias: Latin America Uncovered,” adapted from his Independent Institute book Liberty for Latin America. A look at the failure of Latin America to truly liberalize economically, the series has garnered top ratings in Latin America and Europe, and plans are underway to release the English-language version in the U.S. and internationally later this year.

At 4:30 Richard Koman - ZDNet – to discuss China’s Green Dam project

Richard Koman is an attorney practicing in civil litigation and consumer law in Santa Rosa, California, and the author of ZDnet’s GovernmentIT blog. The website is government.zdnet.com. In 2003, he worked with the Internet Archive to create a digital bookmobile project in Uganda. The project was funded by the World Bank and traveled, allowing kids to print, bind and keep their own books. Richard worked has worked as a journalist, web and book editor for 20 years, editing bestselling books like Web Design in a Nutshell for O’Reilly Inc.   His coverage at ZD Net focuses on copyright abuse and record label litigation, censorship and surveillance, and the ways that technology revolutionizes politics and government.

At 5 PM Robert Perkinson is the author of the forthcoming book, Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008). His family hails from the South (Mississippi, Virginia, and Texas), and he grew up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He became interested in criminal justice as a college student in Colorado, where prisons were springing up faster than Wal-Marts in the 1980s and 1990s. In graduate school at Yale, he decided to focus his research on the history of racism and criminal justice in the South, and he eventually settled on the Lone Star State, where the action is. His book is a history of American punishment from slavery to the present, with an emphasis on Texas, the most incarcerated and politically influential state in the nation. He is currently a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2006.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090706/perkinson

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At 4 PM Dick Lehr A professor of journalism at Boston University, Dick Lehr was a reporter for nearly two decades for the Boston Globe, where he won numerous journalism awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the coauthor of the Edgar Award-winning Black Mass, the Edgar Award finalist Judgment Ridge, and The Underboss. While completing The Fence, he was a visiting journalist at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.

At 5 PM Bill Kaufman a 20-year reporter/columnist with the Calgary Sun newspaper. I’ve covered local and international news that’s included on-the-spot perspectives on conflict in the former Yugoslavia and Israel/Palestine, the “war on drugs,” social justice issues and health care, among many others. Also reported from east Asia.

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We spoke with Teo Ballvé - a freelance journalist based in Colombia. His website is teoballve.com. His article on Plan Colombia’s financing of narco-paramilitary connected companies is available at thenation.com. Hewas born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and grew up in the United States, Mexico, and Venezuela. In 2001, he began working as a reporter and editor specializing in Latin American affairs. This work has taken me to 17 different countries in the hemisphere. In 2003, he became Associate Editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas, the most widely read English-language publication on Latin American affairs, which is published by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). A year later, he was promoted to managing Editor of the magazine. I’m co-editor of the book, “Dispatches From Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism”. In 2006, Teo began working in Colombia as a freelance journalist covering various aspects of the country’s armed conflict – particularly, displacement – for US publications. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, NACLA, ‘New America Media’ (formerly, ‘Pacific News Service’), ‘Free Speech Radio News’, ‘Z Magazine’, and over a dozen local newspapers. We discussed his article The Dark Side of Plan Colombia

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090615/b … ballve.com

http://www.teoballve.com

at 4 PM Jim Keady, Director Educating for Justice, Inc. Jim Keady is the founding Director of Educating for Justice , a NJ-based non-profit whose mission is to educate and organize citizens to promote social justice. For more than a decade, Jim has been leading EFJ’s efforts to end Nike’s sweatshop abuses. Jim is a former pro athlete and Division One college coach. It was during his time coaching at St. John’s University back in 1997 that Jim first took up the cause of Nike’s workers. In the summer of 2000 he gained first-hand experience of the struggles workers face when he spent one month living on a Nike sweatshop wage, at the time $1.25 a day. He has returned to Indonesia on multiple occasions to help educate and organize workers. Along with his grassroots work in Indonesia, Jim has crisscrossed the United States, speaking at more than 450 schools, sharing his stories and analysis and encouraging students to join the fight to end Nike’s sweatshop abuses. This past September he re-launched the Nike campaign under the banner, TEAM SWEAT (

http://www.teamsweat.org

). He also is currently in production on SWEAT, a feature length documentary film about his experiences fighting for justice for Nike’s workers and he is heading to Indonesia on July 19th to continue his research, filming, educating, and organizing.

http://www.educatingforjustice.org

At 5 PM Dean Starkman is an assistant managing editor and the Kingsford Capital Fellow at Columbia Journalism Review; he runs “The Audit,” CJR’s online business-press section

http://portfolio.deanstarkman.com/portfolio/wp_wcc.php

http://www.cjr.org/feature/red_ink_rising.php

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090706/starkman

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At 3:30 Rebecca Griffin is Political Director for Peace Action West, and currently is heading up campaigns to get Afghanistan right, and promote a diplomatic solution with Iran. While at Peace Action West, Ms. Griffin has traveled extensively throughout the western states organizing with community leaders and citizens, meeting with members of Congress, and educating congressional candidates about pragmatic and peaceful solutions to our greatest foreign policy challenges. She has spearheaded campaigns to work toward nuclear disarmament, end the war in Iraq, and promote diplomacy with Iran. In May 2009, Ms. Griffin traveled to Iran with a grassroots diplomacy delegation to build people to people relationships and mobilize support for diplomacy between the US and Iran. Ms. Griffin grew up in Springvale, Maine, graduated from the University of New Hampshire and has worked at Peace Action West since 2003. While at UNH, her political activism focused on abolishing modern-day slavery, including an internship, campus organizing and a senior thesis on slavery in war-torn Sudan. In 2002, Rebecca received an undergraduate research grant to travel to Italy and study the persecution of the Romani population.

http://www.peaceactionwest.org/

At 4 PM Catherine Lutz is a Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies and Department of Anthropology at Brown University. She is an expert on the impact of military bases on surrounding communities and has written two books on the subject. She has also written on militarization, local democracy, visual anthropology, and Micronesia society. Lutz is past president of the American Ethnological Society, the largest organization of cultural anthropologists in the US, and the recipient of numerous national prizes and grants for her work. She has conducted research in Micronesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Okinawa, and North Carolina, USA.

http://www.watsoninstitute.org/contacts … cfm?id=492

‘No Bases’ :

http://www.no-bases.org

At 4:30 Karl Frisch is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America (

www.mediamatters.org

), a progressive media watchdog and research and information center based in Washington, D.C. Frisch also contributes to County Fair, a media blog featuring links to progressive media criticism from around the Web as well as original commentary. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook or sign up to receive his columns by email.

At 5 PM Steve Early was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years. Prior to working for CWA, he served as a headquarters staffer for the United Mine Workers and staff attorney and newspaper editor for the Professional Drivers Council (merged in 1979 into Teamsters for a Democratic Union). As a free-lance labor journalist, he has written for The Nation, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail, The Berkshire Eagle, The Progressive, The Guardian, In These Times, Our Times, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Labor History, New Politics, New Labor Forum, Social Policy, Labor Notes, Labor, WorkingUSA, Labor Research Review, Monthly Labor Review, Technology Review, Boston Review, Dollars and Sense, Socialism and Democracy, The Guild Reporter, and Tikkun. A collection of Early’s “participatory labor journalism” was published in May, 2009, by Monthly Review Press. It’s called Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home. (

www.monthlyreview.org

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It’s First Amendment Friday. Your soapbox all topics are on the table.

At 4 PM Lt. Eric Shine will discuss his case.

At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. See David’s website at

http://www.davideatworld.com

We expect an update from activist, teacher, Iraq war Vet Leonard Clark and author Deborah O’Dowd.

Tune in for the Saturday Progressive Line Up:

4pm America at Work with Roman Ulman

5pm The Progressive Coalition with Lenny Clark

6pm The David Link Show

7pm Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox!

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At 3:30 Mel Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy. He is also adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. He was senior Soviet analyst at the CIA from 1966-1986, and intelligence adviser to the SALT delegation in 1971-72. His newest book, The Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA, was published in early 2008. His other books are Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neo-Conservatives Are Putting the Nation at Risk (2004), The Phantom Defense: The Case Against National Missile Defense (Praeger, 2001) and The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze (Brassey’s, 2001). His articles have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, Washington Monthly, Foreign Service Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.

At 4 PM Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz From 1967 to 1972, she was a full time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. This time of her life and the aftermath, 1960-1975, is the story told in “Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years”. Roxanne took a position teaching in a newly established Native American Studies program at California State University at Hayward, near San Francisco, and helped develop the Department of Ethnic Studies, as well as Women’s Studies. In 1974, she became active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to international human rights. Her first published book, “The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its Struggle for Sovereignty”, was published in 1977 and was presented as the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indians of the Americas, held at United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. That book was followed by two others in the following years: “Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980″ and “Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination”. In 1981, she was asked to visit Sandinista Nicaragua to appraise the land tenure situation of the Miskitu Indians in the northeastern region of the country. Her two trips there that year coincided with the beginning of United States government’s sponsorship of a proxy war to overthrow the Sandinistas, with the northeastern region on the border with Honduras becoming a war zone and the basis for extensive propaganda carried out by the Reagan administration against the Sandinistas. In over a hundred trips to Nicaragua and Honduras from 1981 to 1989, she monitored what was called the Contra War. Her book, “Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War” was published in 2005.

http://www.reddirtsite.com/

At 5 PM Rob Kall Publisher, opednews.com. We’ll discuss his article Iran’s 3rd Revolution: 7 Protesters Killed, Journalists Threatened with Arrest if They Report Street Protests

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-s … 6-744.html

The Rob Kall Bottom-Up Radio Show 1360 AM, reaching metropolitan Philly and South Jersey Contributing Writer, Huffingtonpost.com

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On the Web At 3:30 Duff Conacher is the coordinator of Democracy Watch, an Ottawa-based citizen group advocating democratic reforms, government accountability and corporate responsibility. http://www.dwatch.ca/

At 4:30 PM David Swanson is the author of the upcoming book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” by Seven Stories Press. You can pre-order it and find out when tour will be in your town:

http://davidswanson.org/book

At 5 PM Rory O’Connor author, blogger, journalist and filmmaker is co-founder and president of the international media firm ‘Globalvision, Inc’, and Board Chair of ‘The Global Center’, an affiliated non-profit foundation. O’Connor has directed, written and/or produced hundreds of television programs and films, and served as executive in charge of the award-winning broadcast newsmagazines ‘South Africa Now’ and ‘Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television’. An online columnist for both AlterNet and MediaChannel, O’Connor also writes the popular “Media Is A Plural” blog (accessible at

http://www.roryoconnor.org

.) His articles have appeared in many leading national periodicals, (including The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Vogue, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation,, Broadcasting & Cable, Television Week, Details, Musician, Parents, and many others.) He is also the author of “Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio”, and co-author of the award-winning “Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America”. A graduate of Boston College, O’Connor has taught or lectured at a number of leading universities, and most recently, was a Sagan Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer’s Guild Award, two Emmys, and a George Orwell Award, among many others. ‘Media Is A Plural’ blog—www.roryoconnor.org ‘Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio’ blog—www.shockjocks.org

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On the WEB At 3:30 Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of and The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.

http://vdare.com/roberts/all_columns.htm

At 4 PM Bruce Marshall will discuss his ideas on Hydrothermal Energy. Check out his website for a thorough look at the concept.

http://www.marshallsystem.com

At 4:30 Ben Powless is a 22 year old Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario. He is currently studying Human Rights Indigenous and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, after spending a year in an international exchange program, studying sustainable rural development between Alberta and Mexico. He has been involved with the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition since its inception, working at both the national level and with the Ottawa Chapter. He is also heavily involved with the Indigenous Environmental Network, having represented them at various international events, most recently at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s High-Level Conference on World Food Security, Climate Change and Bioenergy. He also sits on the board of the National Council for the Canadian Environmental Network, is on the Youth Advisory Group to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and is very involved in the local Aboriginal community. Powless aspires to eventually work in national and international issues involving indigenous rights, human rights and their interplay with the environment

At 5 PM John Blevins joined the South Texas faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor of law. He teaches Legal Research & Writing. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Blevins was an associate with Covington & Burling, LLP in Washington, D.C., where he focused on communications law and commercial litigation. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Danny J. Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Professor Blevins earned a joint degree in law and history (M.A.) from the University of Virginia, where he was inducted into the Order of Coif, and served as the Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale University, and attained distinction in the History major. “Just another episode in the long, sad, ugly decline of National Review, that once-formidable, now-cringeworthy home of American conservative thought: Ed Whelan outs Publius, the formerly-unidentified blogger at Obsidian Wings” http://secondcitizen.blogspot.com/2009/ … blius.html

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