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

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

We also spoke with Duff Conacher from Democracy Watch about the ever encroaching surveillance society and privacy rights as an essential tenet of democracy. www.dwatch.ca

We also spoke with Katrina survivor Delliccia Honoree about her ongoing recovery efforts here in Phoenix.

At 4 PM  Alice Rush   “GREEN CAREERS: Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future”  People of all ages and backgrounds are seeking work in career fields that will help save the planet, yet many people are unaware of the variety of green careers available. This unique career guidance book, based on labor market research, covers green jobs representing almost every area of career interest.   The authors’ extensive experience in career and workforce development will help you explore tomorrow’s green career options. Answer such questions as: What green careers are available? What salary can I expect? What education do I need? What is the demand for this type of job? How do I change to a green career?   Green Careers offers clear and concise information about the emerging field of green and environmental jobs.

At 4:30 Eduardo M. Penalver   Professor of Law, Cornell Law School Former clerk for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Clerked for the US Court of Appeals for the 2^nd Circuit. Eduardo joined the Cornell faculty in 2006 after teaching from 2003-05 at Fordham Law School and spending 2005-06 as a visiting professor at Yale Law School.  His research interests focus on property and land use, as well as law and religion.  His work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review , the Virginia Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Review.    We will discuss Judge Sotomayor & Decision in Ricci v. DeStefano

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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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At 3 PM PACIFIC Broadcasting live here and simulcast on

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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!

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.

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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

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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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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At 3:30 Judy Rebick Judy Rebick is a well-known social justice activist, writer, broadcaster and speaker. She is currently the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University, and the publisher of rabble.ca, Canada’s most popular independent online news and discussion site. Judy is the author of several books and articles, most recently Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political (Penguin 2009). Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005). Her other books are Imagine Democracy (Stoddard 2000) and Politically Speaking (Douglas & McIntyre 1996). Transforming Power is the result of the last two or three years of Rebick’s travels around the world looking for new approaches to political and social action and her life time of experience as an activist. Rebick hopes it will inspire dialogue and action about the new paths to social change that we need to transform and create a better world. http://www.TransformingPower.ca

At 4 PM Noam Chomsky has been engaged in political activism all of his adult life and expressed opinions on politics and world events which are widely cited, publicized and discussed. Chomsky has in turn argued that his views are those which the powerful do not want to hear, and for this reason he is considered an American political dissident. Some highlights of his political views: • Power, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate. The burden of proof is on those in authority to demonstrate why their elevated position is justified. If this burden can’t be met, the authority in question should be dismantled. Authority for its own sake is inherently unjustified. An example of a legitimate authority is that exerted by an adult to prevent a young child from wandering into traffic. • That there isn’t much difference between slavery, and renting one’s self to an owner, or “wage slavery.” He feels that it is an attack on personal integrity that destroys and undermines our freedoms. He holds workers should own and control their own workplace, a view held (as he notes) by the Lowell Mill Girls. Very strong criticisms of the foreign policy of the United States. Specifically, he claims double standards in a foreign policy preaching democracy and freedom for all, while promoting, supporting and allying itself with non-democratic and repressive organizations and states such as Chile under Augusto Pinochet, and argues that this results in massive human rights violations. He often argues that America’s intervention in foreign nations, including the secret aid given to the Contras in Nicaragua, an event of which he has been very critical, fits any standard description of terrorism. http://www.chomsky.info

 At 5 PM The Last Internationale is a radical folk duo (Edgey and Delila) from New York. Rejecting the belief that musicians should be mere entertainers or controversial only for the sake of healthy political discourse, the group prefers to mix music with (dis)organized resistance. Their intent isn’t simply to change your mind, but to inspire acts of rebellion that will bring down empires. TLI recently released their debut album, which is available on their website @ Manifestarecords.com as well as other online outlets such as CD Baby. Edgey is also a published author. His first book is titled Fighting for Freedom: Because A Better World is Possible, published by Planting Seeds Press and distributed by AK Press. His second book, Negative Dialectics, is scheduled for release next year. http://www.myspace.com/thelastinternationale

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Join us this week on The Jeff Farias Show on KXXT 1010 AM. We are streaming audio and video at http://www.1280kxeg.com/ and at http://familyvaluesradio.net The call – in number is 602 – 296 – 3632 NOW call us toll free at 1-888- 214- 4163 We hope to hear from you !

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

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

At 4:30 Jake Diliberto A former marine and Iraq War veteran, Diliberto is a founding member of Vets for Rethinking Afghanistan. He said today: “Boots on the ground are doing more harm than good in Afghanistan. Funding the troop increase will make America less safe.” http://rethinkafghanistan.com/veterans/

At 5 PM Marc Pedraza musician, entrepeneur activist joins to discuss his work in music and running an independent record label http://www.myspace.com/marcpedraza

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 4:30 Paul Armentano Deputy Director of Norml returns to the program. Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML (The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and the NORML Foundation. A recognized national expert in marijuana policy, health, and pharmacology, he has spoken at dozens of national conferences and legal seminars and has testified before state legislatures and federal agencies. He appears regularly on Drew Pinsky’s nationally syndicated radio show, Dr. Drew Live, and his work has appeared in over 500 publications. Armentano is the 2008 recipient of the Project Censored Real News Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He currently lives in California with his wife and son. Paul has a new book coming out.

http://www.chelseagreen.com/index/books … _is_safer/

At 5 PM Jeane Manning is co-author of Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World, along with Joel Garbon. Jeane is a long-time researcher of outside-the-box clean energy systems and what they mean for everyday people. Her earlier book The Coming Energy Revolution (Avery Publishing) was followed a few years later by one for her German publisher titled Energie. Jeane also coauthored other nonfiction books, and is published in six languages. She’s been a speaker at New Energy conferences in the USA and abroad.

Http://www.breakthroughpower.net

Http://www.jeanemanning.com

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Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World is available at

http://www.BreakthroughPower.net

This new book by Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon is the citizens’ guide to the coming energy evolution. It introduces game-changing magnetic motors, zero point energy, water-as-fuel and other new-paradigm advances. With compelling stories of brave innovators and their rich variety of breakthroughs that can replace King Coal and oil wars, it makes the case for open-sourcing clean-energy inventions. C. L. Frazier, manager of New Energy Foundation, describes Breakthrough Power as “a much-needed, accessibly written update on the past, present and future of new energy technologies. Manning and Garbon illustrate how each of us can become a part of the ‘new energy movement’.” Note: This English-language edition, published by Amber Bridge Books in 2009, is already being read in more than a dozen countries. Foreign publishers proposing to translate and distribute the book are welcome to send a contract offer to: Amber Bridge Books 101-1001 W. Broadway, Ste. 162 Vancouver BC V6H4E4 Canada

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We also spoke with Colm O’Gorman author of Beyond Belief In 1998 he launched a legal case against the Roman Catholic Church as a result of his experiences of sexual abuse at the hands of one of its priests when he was a teenager. He went on to sue the Bishop of his home diocese of Ferns and the Pope. In 2002 he took part in a BBC documentary, which told the story of his battle with the Roman Catholic Church. The film, Suing the Pope aired in March 2002 and resulted in the resignation of the Bishop of Ferns Dr Brendan Comiskey. Colm returned to live in Ireland in 2003 to found One in Four Ireland. In his role as Director of One in Four, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Ferns Inquiry, the first state investigation into clerical sexual abuse in Ireland. The inquiry investigated the management of child sexual abuse concerns and allegations by the Catholic Church and by State authorities. In 2005 he helped to establish Gorey Educate Together National School ; a multi-denominational, co-educational, child centred and democratically run primary school. Colm is a regular media commentator and contributor, has written extensively on social justice and human rights. He has made a number of documentary films, including the BAFTA awarding winning A Family Affair (2000), Suing the Pope (2002) and Sex Crimes and The Vatican which he presented for BBC Panorama in 2006. Colm’s work as a human rights defender is driven by a deep commitment to human rights and social justice and an abiding belief in the power of advocacy and activism, which challenges all of us to use our individual and collective voices to demand change where it is most needed. Colm served briefly as a member of Seanan Éireann, the upper house of the Irish parliament. He unsuccessfully contested the 2007 Irish general election and discovered that electoral politics was most definitely not his thing. In February 2008, Colm was appointed Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland. His first book Beyond Belief was published by Hodder & Stoughton. It became an instant bestseller, reaching number one in the Irish non-fiction bestsellers list within a week of its publication.

http://colmogorman.com/

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at 4 PM Jim Kliesch, an expert on clean and efficient vehicle technologies, is a senior engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Clean Vehicles Program. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, articles and reports for both technical and mainstream audiences and works on a wide variety of topics, from detailed vehicle technology evaluations to impact assessments of vehicle policies on global warming pollution and America’s oil addiction. Before joining UCS, Kliesch spent eight years with the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) where he was the author and lead vehicle analyst for the organization’s buyer’s guide to eco-friendly vehicles, “ACEEE’s Green Book®: The Environmental Guide to Cars and Trucks,” and its online counterpart, greenercars.org. His technical reports include, among others, “Setting the Standard: How Cost-Effective Technology Can Increase Vehicle Fuel Economy,” and “Plug-In Hybrids: An Environmental and Economic Performance Outlook.” Over the years, Kliesch has been cited by numerous news organizations, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and Automotive News.

http://www.UCSUSA.org

at 4:30 Emily Hecht joined the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in 2006 and currently serves as SLDN’s Legal Department Co-Director. Emily comes to SLDN from the American Bar Association where she spent two years as Assistant Director of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. During her time with the ABA, Emily worked on a variety of civil rights, human rights and social justice issues, lobbying on the state and federal levels and coordinating educational programming and publications for both the legal community and the general public. In addition to her work on voting rights, Title IX, immigration reform, first amendment rights, and Native American issues, Emily spent a great deal of her time working on LGBT issues including marriage equality, adoption and foster care by LGBT parents, transgender employment discrimination, and LGBT asylum and immigration policies. Emily earned her BA in history from the American University in 1996, and her J.D. from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law in 2004. While in law school, Emily clerked for a family law firm specializing in LGBT issues and a union-side labor and employment law firm. She served as a student-lawyer in the Families and the Law Clinic, where she focused on domestic violence and family law and developed and implemented community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues. Prior to attending law school, Emily spent three years with CARE, cultivating major individual and corporate donors, members of Congress and the diplomatic community and working with them to educate the general public about CARE’s work abroad. We will discuss the Supreme Court ruling on the Pentagons’ Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Learn more at

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at 5 PM Kevin Zeese is the executive director of VotersForPeace.US and a member of the Board of VelvetRevolution.US. He is an attorney who signed the complaints against 12 Bush-Cheney lawyers who facilitated torture. On Monday, May 18, 2009, a broad coalition of organizations dedicated to accountable government, and representing over one million members, filed disciplinary complaints with state bar licensing boards against twelve attorneys who advocated the torture of detainees during the Bush Administration. These detailed complaints with over 500 pages of supporting exhibits have been filed against John Yoo, Jay Bybee, Stephen Bradbury, Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, William Haynes II, Douglas Feith, Michael Mukasey, Timothy Flanigan, and David Addington. The complaints, filed with the state bars in the District of Columbia, New York, California, Texas and Pennsylvania, seek disciplinary action and disbarment. Copies of the complaints and exhibits are available at

http://www.disbartorturelawyers.com

. The individually tailored complaints allege that the named attorneys violated the rules of professional responsibility by advocating torture, which is illegal under both United States and international law. Specifically, the Geneva Convention, UN Convention Against Torture, the Eighth Amendment, the Army Field Manual and the United States Criminal Code against torture and war crimes all prohibit torture of detainees. The memos written and supported by these attorneys advocating torture have now been repudiated by the Department of Justice, the White House, the Department of Defense and other experts in the field. The recently released Senate and Red Cross reports on detainee treatment provide uncontrovertible evidence that the torture techniques advocated by the attorneys were used on human beings over an extended period of time. In testimony at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Former State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told a committee panel that Bush administration officials engaged in a ‘collective failure’ on detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists. He called the torture memos “unsound” because “the lawyers involved … did not welcome peer review and indeed would shut down challenges even inside the government.” Another witness testified that the legal policy constituted “an ethical train wreck” because it violated constitutional, statutory and international law.

http://www.disbartorturelawyers.com/

. Facebook. Please visit the Disbar the Lawyers page, read about our campaign and the details behind. The coalition expects these twelve complaints to be followed with others after the involvement of additional attorneys is confirmed.

The campaign website is at

http://www.disbartorturelawyers.com

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