Activism

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Marisa Handler

Marisa Handler is an activist, organizer, and journalist. As an activist with Code Orange, she was instrumental in Direct Action to Stop the War, helping to organize the shutdown of San Francisco on March 20th, 2003, following Bush's declaration of war on Iraq. CD-1494 Read more

Ann Fagan Ginger on 10/25/05

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2005 at 12:00pm
Ann Fagan Ginger is an American lawyer, teacher, writer, and political activist. She is the founder and the Executive Director Emerita of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, California. She talks about her book "Challenging Human Rights Violations Since 9/... Read more

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Airs at: Tue, 04/15/2008 at 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Maude Barlow is a Canadian activist and author. She chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch and Ottawa-based Blue Planet Project. Maude co-founded the Council of Canadians and chaired its board for over three decades. CD-1504 Read more

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Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2006 at 12:00pm
Derrick Jensen is an American author, ecophilosopher, radical environmentalist, and anti-civilization advocate. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement." CD-1509 Read more

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Airs at: Sat, 05/12/2007 at 12:00pm - 12:45pm
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Guns and Butter

Michael Ratner was an American attorney. For much of his career, he was president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in New York City, and president of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights base... Read more

Public Education on 10/4/07

Airs at: Thu, 10/04/2007 at 12:00pm
Jonathan Kozol is an American writer, progressive activist, and educator, best known for his books on public education in the United States. CD-1447 Read more

Alan Weisman, Powell's on 7/19/07

Airs at: Thu, 07/19/2007 at 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Alan Weisman, "The World Without Us". He spoke at Powell's Bookstore. "For a long time I’ve sought some fresh, non-threatening approach to disarm readers’ apprehensions about environmental destruction long enough that they might consider the impacts of unbridled human activ... Read more