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Janine Phillips Africa says; "Revolution is not a word but an application"

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2009 at 5:00pm
Since this statement was written, Merle Austin Africa joined the ancestors. She died in prison, March 13, 1998. Revolution is not a word but an application, it is not war but peace, it does not weaken it strengthens, revolution does not cause separation it generates toget... Read more

Helen Woodson 61-year-old peace activist sentenced to fifty one months

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2009 at 5:00pm
  Nov. 25, 2004 The Kansas City Star: MARK MORRIS   "A 61-year-old peace activist was sentenced to fifty one months in prison Wednesday for threatening federal officials and pouring red paint and cranberry juice on a federal courthouse security station." "Helen Wood... Read more

Torture in US History: Dark Role of the CIA

Airs at: Wed, 04/22/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know:"    Continuing global recession with rising unemployment. And the shame of torture in U.S history--from slave days to post WWII and into the present. Torture achieves only hostility and  resistance.  But may ... Read more

National Security and Domestic Policy

Airs at: Wed, 04/22/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for: 
Soon after taking office, President Obama called the economic crisis a matter of national security.  On this episode of We the People, we explore the link between national security and domestic policy. We were joined in the studio by Mike Edera of the Rural Organizing Projec... Read more

Mark Rudd's new memoir: Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weatherman

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  Host Barbara Bernstein interviews Sixties activist Mark Rudd about his new memoir: "Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weatherman."    41 years ago this week students at Columbia University began an occupation of their campus that shut down the university and resonated ... Read more

Bathroom Access and Safety

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Gender Blender
While there are few things more primal than the need to use the bathroom many trans and gender variant individuals find that answering natures call is needlessly complicated and often downright dangerous. Few gendered spaces are as vehemently patrolled and the penality for ... Read more

Conservative Teabagging, and the Bush-era Torture Memos

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2009 at 5:00pm
 Today, Abe Proctor hosts.  First, we'll talk about Teabagging, then we'll cover the Bush-era Torture Memos in the second half of the show. At the end of the day, the teabaggers are racists. It's the only intellectual thread (and I use that term loosely) that unifies all ... Read more

Everyone's forgiven. Let's move on

April 21, 2009 Here's your White House Chief of Staff, speaking on ABC this past Sunday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cvp-7YOtRI&feature=player_embedded According to Rahm, it is the president's position that everybody involved in torture gets a free pass. The officials who... Read more

The torture memos

April 21, 2009 A little light reading. There will be a quiz. -A   Read more

A little racism with your tea?

April 20, 2009 I was all set to write a brilliant psychosocial expose of the racist undercurrent of the April 15 Teabag Parties, and then I saw this video of Janean Garofalo and Kieth Olbermann hitting the nail on the head. (I'm going to figure out how to embed video, I swe... Read more