10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Kathy Tactaquin,Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrants and Refugee Rights. Angela Chan, Staff Attorney, Criminal Justice Reform Program. Jonathan Martinez, one of 5 students walking across the country for the DREAM Act. Justin Cox, attorney with ACLU working on challenges to Alabama’s controversial immigration law.
Adele Stan, of Alternet on GOP Primary. Iain Boal, author of West of Eden, on the history of communes.
Peter Van Buren, who lead reconstruction efforts in Iraq, is on the brink of being fired by the State Department after blowing the whistle on billions of dollars in wasted funds. Dave Zirin on the suspension of baseball manager Ozzie Guillen due to remarks about Fidel Castro. Sunita Patel of CCR on Secure Communities.
Richard Lee, founder of Oaksterdam University. Oliver Villar, author of the book “Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror: US Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia.”
Sylvia Allegretto, labor economist, on new labor report. Activists arrested at Lawrence Livermore Lab. Dava Sobel on Copernicus.
Conversation with Dorothy Roberts, professor of law and bioethics and of the book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the 21st Century.
-Rachel Maddow -Further coverage of DEA raid on Oaksterdam University.
-Alley Bohm of the ACLU on new report of police surveillance of phone cell records. -Live report from Oaksterdam University raid. -Live conversation with Scott Crow, anarchist organizer and co-founder of Common Ground Collective. -Live report from inside 888 Turk St that Occupy SF has occupied.
