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At 4 PM Bob Cesca returns. Cesca is an American director, producer, writer, actor, blogger, and political commentator. He began his career in media working as an intern for the Don and Mike Show in Washington, D.C. Later, he founded Camp Chaos, an alternative media production studio based near Philadelphia for which he animated and performed voices for the cartoon Napster Bad. He also produced and directed numerous music videos for recording artists including Meat Loaf, Iron Maiden, Yes (band), Mötley Crüe and Everclear, as well as other animated shorts. Beginning in 2006, Cesca edited and directed the animated series Kung Fu Jimmy Chow for Heavy.com. In addition, he conceived and produced ILL-ustrated, a VH1 animated-comedy series which premiered on 17.Oct.03. Cesca is perhaps best known for his articles in The Huffington Post, which he has written since August 2005.

One Nation Under Fear: Scaredy Cats and Fear-Mongers in the Home of the Brave (And What You Can Do About It)

At 4:30 Barbara Friedkin, The Mystic of Cave Creek, has been reading for over 15 years to clients world-wide and is incredibly accurate. Using meditation, prayer and automatic writing she connects her clients with loved ones on the other side. The messages she brings through offer hope, love, humor, and closure for those left behind. Many clients also receive information about future events and unresolved issues. Barbara is a consummate entertainer and storyteller, a gifted psychic medium, sincerely spiritual, and a tender, warm-hearted person. With her background as a comedienne and now as a medium, she reads with great humor, making it a joyful experience. Some people call her the “Comedienne Medium“. Her uncanny ability to hold an audience gently but firmly, while she reveals things she simply couldn’t know, makes for a truly memorable and thoroughly enjoyable occasion. Barbara Friedkin, the Mystic of Cave Creek, is featured in Sherry Ward’s book, “SEEKERS OF THE SOUL” by Sherry Ward As a reporter and feature writer Sherry Ward covered stories that ranged from bookies and diabetes to handwriting analysis and healers.

We spoke earlier today with Starhawk! Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk’s newest book is a picture book for children, The Last Wild Witch. Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese. Her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Starhawk’s writing is influential and has been quoted by hundreds of other authors, turning up in magazines, trade and academic press, and even inspirational calendars. Written by Starhawk is another acclaimed pagan reference, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over Her books are often found in college curriculums. Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community. Her archives are maintained at the Graduate Theological Union library in Berkeley, California. She is a panelist for the Newsweek/Washington Post website on religion, “On Faith,” and also contributes to Beliefnet and ZNet, as well as maintaining her own blog, “Dirt Worship” She consulted on and contributed to the popular trio of films known as the Women’s Spirituality series, directed by Donna Read for the National Film Board of Canada:

·         Goddess Remembered,

·         The Burning Times, and

·         Full Circle.

Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili Productions . Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar made major discoveries about the Goddess cultures of Old Europe. Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture. Starhawk has also made several short documentaries which can be found on YouTube:

·         “The Spiral Dance Ritual“;

·         “Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance—Three Decades of Magic“,

·         “Permaculture in the City” and

·         “Permaculture Principles at Work.”

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her web site Her blog, Dirt Worship!

The Last Wild Witch by Starhawk, illustrated by Lindy Kehoe is special, right from the paper up. It is printed on recycled paper using a soy based ink, so it’s an eco-fable that puts it’s money where it’s mouth is. On the inside cover, it even has the information about what resources were saved by using recycled paper (21 full grown trees and 4, 658 gallons of water). It’s published by Mother Tongue Ink, who publishes the We’Moon Datebook. This is their first children’s book. … Besides being so well written, it is also a book of the times; a way of helping kids to realize that yes, adults have tried to suck the natural magic out of this planet, but you can make a difference! You can work to change things, and you can even teach your parents a thing or two. A lot of the wild places might be gone, but we can work to save what is left and try to heal the rest the best we can.

Illustrator Lindy Kehoe creates a rich, lush, swirly world in The Last Wild Witch with simple, yet gorgeous paintings. From the fabulous royal purple endpapers to the to the trees that are bursting with life and the children that are themselves the richest colors of the earth and sea, rarely has a book had such inviting pages. Together, Starhawk and Lindy Kehoe have together created their own wild magic.

We also spoke with Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) Go to his site Congressman with Guts!

During his first term in office, Grayson gained attention for an exchange with Federal Reserve System Vice Chairman Donald Kohn on the disposition of the $1.2 trillion that the Fed had lent as part of the 2008 bank bailout, during which Grayson said (to Kohn), “…Have people ever said we won’t take your $150 billion because people might find out about it?” and questioned the authority of the Fed in funds dispersal. After the exchange received attention from various national media outlets, Grayson was the subject of an interview on the subject by Salon.com writer Glenn Greenwald. A later hearing, during which Grayson had an exchange with Elizabeth A. Coleman about spending by the Federal Reserve, became widely reviewed on YouTube, receiving nearly 3,000,000 views in the first few months after posting. On March 23, 2009, following the AIG bonus payments controversy, Grayson joined with fellow freshman Democrat Jim Himes of Connecticut to introduce the Grayson-Himes Pay for Performance Act, legislation to require that all bonuses paid by companies that had received funds under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to be “based on performance”. The bill was co-sponsored by eight other members of the House. On March 26, the bill was approved by the House Financial Services Committee by a vote of 38-22. On April 1, the bill was passed by the full House of Representatives by a vote of 247-171. The bill is viewed by some as giving Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies that have received taxpayer bailout money. Grayson is a co-sponsor of the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, which would audit the Federal Reserve. On September 29, 2009, Grayson made a speech regarding health care proposals in the U.S. House. During it he said, “The Republican health care plan is this: ‘Don’t get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.’” His remarks drew immediate calls for an apology from Republicans and condemnation from media sources, and, according to Grayson, resulted in positive emails from constituents which outweighed negative ones four to one and over five thousand supporting campaign contributions. Grayson raised $347,000 for his reelection campaign during the third quarter, much of it attributed to his remarks. Republican Congressman Jimmy Duncan called Grayson’s speech “the most mean-spirited partisan statement that I’ve ever heard made on this floor”. National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Andy Sere said, “This is an unstable man who has come unhinged. The depths to which Alan Grayson will sink to defend his indefensible comments know no bounds.” Grayson described these comments as “Republican hissy fits”, and the next day gave a speech from the House Floor, saying “I would like to apologize: I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America.” He cited a September 2009 Harvard study that found 44,000 Americans die each year due to being uninsured. Grayson, who is Jewish, apologized to the Anti-defamation League for those offended by his generic use of the word ‘holocaust‘. On October 21 Grayson released a website, NamesOfTheDead.com, which, “aims to memorialize Americans who die because they don’t have health insurance.” Shortly after his site was announced, the names listed on the website’s roatating list included fraudulent names. The name rotator was shortly removed. Grayson criticized Senator Jon Kyl who said “I’m not sure that it’s a fact that more and more people die because they don’t have health insurance.″ Republicans accused Grayson of violating campaign ethics guidelines because the website links to Grayson’s campaign website. However, according to Grayson, no formal complaint has been lodged against him Grayson specialized in war profiteer and whistleblower cases aimed at Iraq war contractors who allegedly overbilled the U.S. government. One contractor, Custer Battles, allegedly billed the government $15 million for inspecting allegedly non-existent civilian flights at Baghdad Airport, and $10 million on a time and materials contract that had cost $3.5 million. The contractor received payment in newly printed cash direct from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Grayson was enabled to prosecute fraud through the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions While pursuing the whistleblower cases, Grayson worked from a home office in Orlando where he lived with his wife and five children. In 2006, a Wall Street Journal reporter described Grayson as “waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq” and as a “fierce critic of the war in Iraq” whose car was “emblazoned” with bumper stickers such as “Bush lied, people died”.

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Be sure to catch all the great live talk with our weekend lineup:

SATURDAY

·         2 PM The Robert McDonald Show

·         3 PM America at Work with Roman and Liz

·         5 PM The Progressive Coalition Show with Leonard Clark

·         6 PM The David Link Show

·         7 PM In the Zone with Lt Eric Shine

SUNDAY

·         9 AM Sunday Morning Coffee with Sarge

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At 4 PM - Jerelle Kraus is the award-winning New York Times art director whose thirty-year tenure includes a record thirteen years at inimitable Op-Ed. She’s also been an art director at Time & the art director of Ramparts magazine & of Francis Ford Coppola’s City magazine.

The New Yorker & The New York Times magazine have published her writing, including an “On Language” column that subbed for William Safire. Fluent in 4 languages, she was educated at Swarthmore & Pomona Colleges & l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received an MA from UC Berkeley & a Fulbright scholarship to Munich. She is the author of All the Art That’s Fit to Print (and Some That Wasn’t) Inside the New York Times Op-ed Page. We’re thrilled to have her back for another visit!

At 5 PM – Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for many years. He is the author of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy and Why Unions Matter .

Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist’s Travelogue, March 19, 2007 The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado. Cheap Motels and a Hotplate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.

The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know – Michael D, Yates and Fred Magdoff

The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow will bring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economists—the so-called “experts“—still cling to bankrupt ideologies that failed to predict the crisis and offer nothing to explain it. In this short, clear, and concise book, Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates explain the nature of the economic crisis. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors demonstrate that this crisis is not some aberration from a normally benign capitalism but rather the normal and even expected outcome of a thoroughly irrational and destructive system. No amount of tinkering with capitalism, whether it be discredited neoliberalism or the return of Keynesianism and a “new” New Deal, can overcome the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and degradation of the majority of the world’s people by a tiny minority of business owners. While the current economic maelstrom has laid bare the web of greed, corruption, and propaganda that are central to capitalism, only an aroused public, demanding the right to health care, decent employment, a secure old age, and a clean and healthy environment, can lead the United States and the world out of the worst crisis since the Great Depression and toward a system of production and distribution conducive to human happiness. This book is aimed primarily at working people, students, and activists, who want not just to understand the world but to change it.

We also spoke with Sophie Grig campaigner for Survival International regarding their amazing work with the Jarawa tribes of the Andaman Islands http://www.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/ SPECIAL OFFER !! The incredible, one-of-a-kind, collector’s item DI cookbook, titled “Chat Chow” is now available for pre-order sales at the amazing low price of $10.00! And that includes shipping and handling!

The DI Cookbook is a collection of fabulous, fun and liberal-minded recipes created by our very own DI Community. Many of you have contributed your own recipe gems to this book which has arrived for purchase just in time for both holiday cooking and gift-giving.

If you order today, your books will be shipped to you in early November–you’ll have new recipes to choose from for your holiday meal preparations and the more you buy, the more you have to give out as gifts to your family and friends. And what a bargain at just $10.00 each!

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At 3:30 Lewis Dvorkin Founder & Chief Executive Officer Lewis is the founder of True/Slant, an original content news network. Leveraging his 35 years of media experience, Lewis envisioned a new model that combined the values and editorial standards of traditional news with the immediacy and interactivity of the digital medium. As CEO, Lewis leads an experienced team that is realizing this vision. Previously, Lewis was Senior Vice President, Programming at AOL, where he was responsible for News, Sports and Network Programming and played an instrumental role in the launch of TMZ.com. He was also Executive Editor at Forbes magazine, where he spearheaded the magazine’s redesign, managed the annual Forbes 400 Richest Americans list and created the Celebrity 100 List. He was Page One Editor of The Wall Street Journal, a Senior Editor at Newsweek and an editor at The New York Times.

At 4 PM Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and is the co-author of the new book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (Chelsea Green Publishing).

Zack de la Rocha Returns to Phoenix January 16 to Lead National Day of Action – The Feathered Bastard The third time’s the charm, and according to civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the Puente Movement, the pleasure will be ours January 16 as Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion frontman Zack de la Rocha returns to the Arizona capital to lead a National Day of Action.

Will people be marching against Joe Arpaio and the 287(g) program? Nope, says Reza.

“Joe’s a has-been,” said Reza, who’s so far organized two such demonstrations this year, drawing thousands to the cause of the oppressed in Maricopa County. “We’re protesting the Obama administration and the Department of Homeland Security for empowering Arpaio.” …

Bong Water Counts as an Illegal Drug? – via AlterNet From the AP:

In Minnesota, bong water can count as an illegal drug.

That decision from Minnesota’s Supreme Court on Thursday raises the threat of longer sentences for drug smokers in that state who fail to dump the water out of bong — a type of water pipe often used to smoke drugs

The court said a person can be prosecuted for a first-degree drug crime for 25 grams or more of bong water that tests positive for a controlled substance.

Lower courts had held that bong water is drug paraphernalia. Possession of that is a misdemeanor crime.

The case involved a woman whose bong had about 2 1/2 tablespoons of liquid that tested positive for methamphetamine. A narcotics officer had testified that drug users sometimes keep bong water to drink or inject later.

The war on fun continues, despite some recent progress.

At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. Check out David’s blog

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At 4 PM Eleanor Smeal is a feminist activist, political analyst, lobbyist, and grassroots organizer. Smeal is also the president and founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation and has served as president of the National Organization for Women twice. Smeal has appeared frequently on television and radio and testified before Congress on women’s issues. As one of the major leaders of the modern day feminist movement, Smeal has organized numerous events around and given speeches on the concepts of feminism, equality, and human rights as they pertain to people in and outside of the United States.

http://www.feminist.org/

http://www.now.org/

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At 4 PM Michael Thompson Love Grows Farms

Promoting Community Supported Agriculture CSA is a community of individuals who pledge support to farms so that the farmland bonds with the community. With the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production. Typically, members or “share-holders” of the farms pledge in advance to cover the anticipated costs of the farms operations. In return, they receive shares in the farm’s bounty throughout the growing season, as well as satisfaction gained from reconnecting to the land and participating directly in food production. In the off chance there are crop problems we have joined with other local farmers to help provide in the CSA needs. There will be over planting to cover some of the risk. We have been growing in our currant location for years and have learned the micro climates. By direct sales to community members, who have provided the farmer with working capital in advance, growers receive better prices for their crops, gain some financial security, and are relieved of much of the burden of marketing.

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·         2 PM The Robert McDonald Show

·         3 PM America at Work with Roman and Liz (Sarge joins Liz this week)

·         5 PM The Progressive Coalition Show with Leonard Clark

·         6 PM The David Link Show

·         7 PM In the Zone with Lt Eric Shine

SUNDAY

·         9 AM Sunday Morning Coffee with Sarge

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Energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens told a Congressional committee on Wednesday that U.S. companies are “entitled” to some of Iraq’s crude oil because of the American troops that lost their lives fighting in the country and the U.S. taxpayer money spent in Iraq. “They’re opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world … We’re entitled to it,” Pickens said of Iraq’s oil. “Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars.”

It’s an interesting concept. Reparations for the aggressor. Pickens believes that our government’s choice to illegally invade and destroy a country should come with some perks for our corporate interests. Why should other countries be allowed to reap the spoils of our empire? Shouldn’t American-based multi-national corporations be the ones to reap the benefits of the sacrifices of American blood and the American taxpayers ?

It leads me to wonder – if I where to lead a small commando force and attack Mr Pickens corporate headquarters, looting, killing, and randomly destroying the place, how much money would I have to spend and how many men would I have to lose before I’m entitled to Mr Pickens assets as compensation ?

At 4 PM ‘Sarge’ Phelps takes over the program with a report exposing the corruption of the Maricopa County Community College Board

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At 3 PM PACIFIC: Broadcasting live here and simulcast on Roots Up Radio and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden Call us!: • local: 602-275-4130 • Toll free: 1-800-385-1566 At 4 PM – Jeremy Gantz, Web Editor, In These Times and Working In These Times “Working In These Times“ is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and the struggles of workers to obtain safe, healthy and just workplaces. As newspapers have declined, so has labor journalism. Workers—those now protected by unions, those lacking a union at work and those seeking to reform their unions—are increasingly absent in media. This is especially true for the most vulnerable workers, particularly those who are undocumented and easily exploited. The stories of these and other workers are not being told. The dearth of labor coverage in print media is reflected online, where original reporting on labor and workers’ rights issues is scarce. Supported by a generous grant from the Public Welfare Foundation, “Working In These Times“ seeks to reverse the decline of labor journalism by making original news about workers’ struggles freely accessible to Internet readers, many of whom are perhaps less familiar with America’s history of workers’ rights struggles. By blending original reportage and commentary to highlight how workers are trying to improve their lives throughout the United States and beyond, “Working In These Times“ will expand In These Times‘ longstanding commitment to covering the labor movement. Jeremy also works with The ITT List – A weblog from the editors and staff of In These Times At 5 PM – Ryan Grim is the senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post. He is a former staff reporter with Politico and Washington City Paper. He won the 2007 Alt-Weekly Award for best long-form news-story and is the author of the book, “This Is Your Country on Drugs.” Everything we know about drugs–from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia–turns out to be wrong Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the U.S.–from the agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and music festivals). Along the way, Grim discovers some surprising truths. Did anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak years ago? Did our Founding Fathers–or, better yet, their wives–get high just as much as we do? Not since Eric Schlosser took readers underground to marijuana’s black market in Reefer Madness has a reporter trained such a keen eye on drugs and culture. Grim weaves a story based on solid reporting and wide-ranging research. This Is Your Country on Drugs explores our country’s long and twisted relationship with drugs–but also asks readers to reflect on what it means to be an American. We also spoke with Daniel Tencer editor at Raw Story, art director at This Magazine and his blog is The Nutshell Paragraph. We discussed the battle between Fox News and the White House and the roots of the financial crisis.

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 At 3:30 – John M Burkoff – University of Pittsburgh School of Law> professor joins us to discuss the legal labyrinth involving the arrest of twitter activists at the G-20. John M. Burkoff is a prolific author, teacher, public speaker, lawyer, and expert witness. Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh since 1976 and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from July, 2000 to January 2004, he has published nineteen books and over sixty articles in the areas of criminal justice and legal ethics. Professor Burkoff was awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award by the University of Pittsburgh and has been involved with projects relating to human rights, criminal justice, legal ethics, and legal education all over the world. He has also held a faculty appointment at the University of Ghent (Belgium) Faculty of Law, where he has taught most recently as the Chair in Foreign Law. At 4 PM – Rich Benjamin Americans greeted President Obama’s election as proof of a post-racial era, but a disturbing trend indicates that the country is as segregated now as it was in the 1970s—and the problem is growing. As non-white populations increase in cities and suburbs, whites are moving to predominately white small towns and exurban areas.

Rich Benjamin, a  journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos, spent two years living in and studying the fastest-growing and whitest communities in the nation to find out why people are seeking Whitopia. He found that while interpersonal racism is declining, structural racism—institutional policies and behaviors that perpetuate racial segregation and inequality—is on the rise. His book, Searching for Whitopia (Hyperion; October 6, 2009; Hardcover/ $24.99), reveals the social and political implications of this startling phenomenon.

At 4:30 – Dan LaBotz As a writer, La Botz is best known in the labor movement for his book The Troublemaker’s Handbook, a rank-and-file activist organizing manual, and for Rank and File Rebellion: Teamsters for a Democratic Union, an account of the Teamster reform movement. He has written several other books on labor and politics in México including The Crisis of Mexican Labor, Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today, and Democracy in Mexico: Peasant Rebellion and Political Reform. He is also the author of a study of labor in Southeast Asia, Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto, a book he wrote with assistance from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. In 2005, Peason Longman published his biography César Chávez and La Causa. He is the editor of Mexican Labor News and Analysis (MLNA), a monthly electronic report on workers and unions in México. More recently, Dan La Botz has worked in Cincinnati to organize protests against police killings of African Americans. He was one of the organizers of the March for Justice in 2001 and again in 2002. He then worked with other Cincinnati area activists to help create Cincinnati Progressive Action (CPA), a local human rights organization. In 2004, La Botz helped organize the Coalición por los Derechos y la Dignidad de los Inmigrantes (Coalition for Immigrant Rights and Dignity), an organization of Latino immigrants in the Cincinnati area. An independent scholar La Botz writes for Against the Current, Counterpunch, Labor Notes, Monthly Review, New Labor Forum and is a member of the Editorial Board of New Politics.

At 5 PM – Ethan Porter is the Associate Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He has written for The Nation, Mother Jones, In These Times, The New Republic, The New York Daily News, and Politico, among other publications. He blogs at True/Slant. Porter graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in Literature and Political Studies.

At 5:30 – David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. Check out David’s blog

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At 3:30 Steve Fox is the Director of State Campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’s largest organization dedicated to reforming marijuana laws. From 2002–2005, he lobbied Congress as MPP’s Director of Government Relations. He cofounded Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) in 2005 and has helped guide its operations since its inception. He is a graduate of Tufts University and Boston College Law School . He is co-author of Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? Nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert compare and contrast the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world—marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the two drugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol? Marijuana Is Safer reaches for a broad audience. For those unfamiliar with marijuana, it provides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths. For current and aspiring advocates of marijuana-law reform, as well as anyone else who is interested in what is becoming a major political battle, the authors spell out why the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol must be a prominent part of the public debate over legalization. Most importantly, for the millions of Americans who want to advance the cause of marijuana-policy reform—or simply want to defend their own personal, safer choice—this book provides the talking points and detailed information needed to make persuasive arguments to friends, family, coworkers, and elected officials.

at 5 PM Matthew Rojansky is the Executive Director of Partnership for a Secure America. We will discuss the IAEA and nuclear proliferation. From 2006-07, Matthew served as a judicial clerk on the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the highest court for the US military. Prior to that, he was a Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, where he conducted research on international criminal law and served as a section instructor in political science. He also organized UN Security Council simulations dealing with the Iranian nuclear crisis at US and Russian universities. Matthew has served as a public relations consultant on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and has worked and studied in the former Soviet Union. His writing, on topics ranging from terrorism and international law to NATO expansion, has been widely published in web and print media, including in the International Herald Tribune and the Jerusalem Post.

Agenda for UN Meeting on Nukes

We also spoke earlier with Fiona Watson, campaigner from Survival International. Fiona has been working on indigenous issues in Brazil for twenty years, and has visited numerous Brazilian Indian communities, including very remote tribes. She probably knows more about indigenous issues in Brazil than anyone else outside the country.

See details on their website of some of the tribes Fiona has visited and worked with. Guarani: Yanomami: Enawene Nawe: Awá: Akuntsu:

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