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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 06/06/2011
This week, Reckless Endangerment, what Pulitzer Prize winning business reporter and New York Times Columnist Gretchen Morgenson has to say about Fannie Mae. Author James Carroll with a quite different take on Jerusalem. Then, in part two, two Bills. Political comedian Bill Hicks and from Public Television, Bill Moyers..... Plus a few words from me on the future of this program.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 05/30/2011
This week, Reckless Endangerment: what Pulitzer Prize-winning business reporter and New York Times columnist GRETCHEN MORGENSON has to say about Fannie Mae. With the Middle East in the news, author JAMES CARROLL takes the long view, in considering the city of Jerusalem. Then, in part two, two Bills. Political comedian Bill Hicks and from Public Television, BILL MOYERS.... Plus a few words from me on the future of this program.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 05/23/2011
This week, Chris Hedges on the World as it is, Adam Hochschild on Ending all Wars, and Vermont's independent senator Bernie Sanders on the World as it could be - with Single Payer health care .All that and the state of health care, -- a nurses perspective.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 05/19/2011
This week, Chris Hedges on the World as it is, Adam Hochschild on Ending all Wars, and Vermont's independent senator Bernie Sanders on the World as it could be - with Single Payer health care .All that and the state of health care, -- a nurses perspective.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 05/16/2011
This week, Chris Hedges on the World as it is, Adam Hochschild on Ending all Wars, and Vermont's independent senator Bernie Sanders on the World as it could be - with Single Payer health care .All that and the state of health care, -- a nurses perspective.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 05/09/2011
This week, jubilation, confusion, and anticipation in the wake of the news that a US special operations team killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Was justice served? And will troops come home? We talk to author and radio host Sonali Kolhatkar and author Phyllis Bennis visiting Amman Jordan for the Institute for Policy Studies. Then, two very special features: feminist ecologist scientist Vandana Shiva, one of Forbes magazine's seven most influential women and the incomparable author and...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 05/02/2011
This week, switches in the President's national security team and big question marks over the future of the "Arab Spring" We talk to Boston University professor of international relations Andrew Bacevich. And Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses the latest releases from Wikileaks regarding Guantanamo detainees. And then, a special interview with Nicaraguan poet, author and former Sandinista revolutionary Gioconda Belli on love and war celebrating a lusty left -- all...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 04/25/2011
This week - Balances of power: we talk about big oil vs. the people and the potential for a Universal Declaration of Rights for Mother Earth. Then in part two journalists who try to keep focus on the people typically left out. Environmental crusaders Antonia Juhaz and Tracie Washington, water activists Maude Barlow and columnist Bob Herbert in his first interview since leaving the New York Times. All that and commentary from Mike Papantonio and Katrina Vanden Heuvel and remembering...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 04/18/2011
Week of 04/18 DESCRIPTION: This week - a pot=pouri of news and commentary from across the nation: From the President's deficit plan, to the anniversary of the BP oil spill, to a chilling report on the next predatory lending scandal - and an exclusive conversation about why the Israeli occupation is an the LGBT issue. All that -- with environmentalist Mark Hertsgaard, economist Heather Boushey, incarceration alternatives activist Deborah Small and Omar Barghouti..... And a few words from me...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 04/11/11
This week saw demonstrations to mark the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assignation called "We are One" rallies across the country they drew attention to King's support for public workers and their right to organize--connecting worker's struggles then with those raging now, NAACP president Ben Jealous and Ray Stever, two leaders of the rally in Newark New Jersey join us, and from DC on the budget battle we hear from congressman, Keith Ellison, co-chair of the progressive caucus...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 04/04/11
This week, actor activist Danny Glover on his flight from South Africa to Haiti with former Haitian President Jean Betrand Aristide returning from exile. US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis reflects on the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Department of Labor protections inspired then that are under assault assault now. Middle East watcher Phyllis Bennis weighs in on the president's policy in Libya. . And good news from Vermont, where single payer healthcare just may came to pass.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 03/28/11
This week, Bill Fletcher, formerly director of TransAfrica, on the military intervention in Libya, heartland correspondent Jeff Biggers on the nuclear power debacle in Japan - will it result in a bonanza for natural gas and big coal. Film-maker Michael Moore and SICKO star Donna Smith review progress on healthcare, a year after the passage of Obama's reform law, and all these years after the movie...And Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich on Wall Street power. All that and a look back at 100 years...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 03/21/11
This week -- the nuclear crisis in Japan, will it lead to any real shift in policy around nuclear power? We hear from anti nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman, corporate prosecutor Mike Papantonio and the leader of the US Steelworkers' union, Leo Gerard. Then, the beginning of something powerful, or the beginning of the end... We hear from local organizers in Madison Wisconsin about what they've learned -- with Former AFL-CIO president David Newby and community activists, Kazua Veh and Monica...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 03/14/11
For years, the FOX-led media has made it seem as if the Tea Parties were the only one's with a complaint about budgets and bailouts. This year, though, a new wave of protest is sweeping the country, from Wisconsin to Washington, and it's not unconnected from what's happening internationally. This week, on GRITradio Rev Jesse Jackson Ohio's Senator Sherrod Brown and the extraordinary Egyptian author and feminist Nawal Saadawi. All that and the latest on a CIA killing fomenting fury in...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 03/07/11
This week, an exclusive interview with filmmaker Michael Moore inspired by events in Madison... And one of Wisconsin's fab-14 -- the democratic senators who've left the state to stop a vote they believe is immoral - talks about her resistance, the reaction its received and what she calls the 114 pages of devastation in the Governor's budget. All that and the possibly impeachable behavior revealed in Scott Walker's conversation with a man he believed to be a wealthy donor. And Lah Tere and...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 02/28/11
This week, resistance grows to two mean-spirited Governor's plans, and I hit the road for Wisconsin and Ohio...For the back story on the battle and the future plan for labor we sit down with organizers, activists and among others, musician Tom Morello, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and The Reverend Jesse Jackson. What's it all mean and where's the struggle going next?
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 02/21/11
This week, change is coming: one kind to the Middle East, another to right here? In part one of this week's program we hear reaction from Egypt, Iran and Gaza to the popular ouster of the Mubarak's regime. With renown author and feminist Nawal Saadawi, professor Hamid Dabashi, poet Remi Kanazi and blogger Leila El Haddad, Gaza Mom. Then, savage budget cuts stateside are not enough for Republicans. And there's a new onslaught on abortion rights. We'll hear from economist Dean Baker, women's...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 02/14/11
This week, revolution in Egypt and concession back here? Christy Setzer of US Chamber Watch gives the President low marks for his speech to his opponents at the chamber and the AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka tries to persuade businesses to keep jobs in the US. A media shakeup in the works -- The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and the Huffington Post’s Ryan Grimm join me to talk about the big merger news and the targeting of journalists in Egypt. And in the second half of our show, be get a...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 02/07/11
Uprising After 30 years we hear voices on and from Egypt - including Phyllis Bennis on the US Relationship, Doug Rushkoff on what we've learned about Internet Control and one Egyptian woman's story of her son's coming of age. Then, Republicans remove "forcible rape" language from an anti-abortion bill but feminists aren't satisfied, Not by a long shot. And Cary Alan Johnson of the International Gay and lesbian HR Commission reports on the funeral of Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato. All that...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 01/31/11
On this week’s program, Haitian American writer, Edwidge Danticat on Haitian art, history, culture, all the bits you typically don’t see. Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake on what happened when she tried to visit accused Wikileaks leader, Private Bradley Manning. And a few takes on our economy – from two who listened closely to the President's State of the Union, and the filmmaker behind a new movie, the Economics of Happiness. All that and a warning about Wisconsin from The Nation’s John Nichols.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 01/24/11 VER 2
On this week's show: what’s the state of our home? We look at the continuing foreclosure crisis, the struggle for security still in Gaza, and our planet’s watery home, its oceans, which are in trouble. Among our guests, Sarah Ludwig, co-director of the neighborhood economic development advocacy…David Helvarg, author of Saved by the Sea, and Palestinian blogger Leila El Haddad… All that and filmmaker Ken Bowser whose new film is about, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 01/24/11
On this week's show: what’s the state of our home? We look at the continuing foreclosure crisis, the struggle for security still in Gaza, and our planet’s watery home, its oceans, which are in trouble. Among our guests, Sarah Ludwig, co-director of the neighborhood economic development advocacy…David Helvarg, author of Saved by the Sea, and Palestinian blogger Leila El Haddad… All that and filmmaker Ken Bowser whose new film is about, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 01/17/11
Civil Rights and Circles of Concern. For the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday we hear from long time Congressman and former civil rights marcher, John Lewis on the challenges of Coalition building. Constitutional Rights attorney Bill Quigley reflects on the Tucson shootings and gun control. Haitian American activist Marie St. Cyr mourns the invisibility of her people - and as the president calls for unity, we talk to public workers who are feeling increasingly marginalized.
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 01/10/11
New Congress, New Rules, Old Wars. On This week's GRITradio we talk about the prospects for changing the filibuster rule, the most destabilizing new revelations in the Wiki leaks release and the Rise of a Global Ruling Class. Among our guests: the New Yorker's Rick Hertzberg, author David Swanson, The Atlantic's Chrystia Freeland and former British Diplomat Carne Ross. All that and some thoughts from Pandagon's Amanda Marcott on Boehner's tears, and me, on the making invisible of public...
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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 01/03/11
Coming up - He's a bad guy in the corporate press and persona non grata in anti-socialist Washington, but Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia and the leader of the country's Toward Socialism Party, has a lot to say that has relevance for the US. He sat down for an exclusive interview with GRIT Radio. Then, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, talks about being one of the few westerners on the ground during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Novelist Walter Mosely on his latest book, and Andrew and...
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