Letters and Politics

09.28.11 - 10:00am

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UN Takes up Palestinian Recognition Request. Matt Cate, Secretary of CA Dept of Corrections on CA Prison Hunger Strikes. Laura Magnoli, member of mediation team for CA prison hunger strikers.  

09.27.11 - 10:00am

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09.26.11 - 10:00am

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither warns of 2nd economic downturn. Chris Hedges on Occupy Wall St protests. Aaron Belkin, author of How We Won.    

09.23.11 - 10:00am

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09.22.11 - 10:00am

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-AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka. -What’s next for the death penalty abolition movement. -Revisiting the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. -CA Nurses and student strikes.  

09.21.11 - 10:00am

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Report from Georgia on Troy Davis. Pres Obama address to UN concerning Palestine. History of the death penalty.

09.20.11 - 10:00am

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Board of Pardons and Paroles denies Troy Davis clemency. Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the 21st Century.  

09.19.11 - 10:00am

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Update on Troy Davis Clemency hearing. Dean Baker on Pres Obama’s defecit reduction proposal. David Pakman, host of David Pakman Show, on national politics.

09.16.11 - 10:00am

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Former investment banker Nomi Prins on 3rd anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapse. Latest on scheduled Troy Davis execution with Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty. Former San Quentin warden who oversaw 4 executions Jeanne Woodford. Heather Brooke, The Revolution will be Digitized.  

09.15.11 - 10:00am

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Mohamad ElBaradei, former Chief of the IAEA, Nobel Prize Laureate and potential Presidential candidate in Egypt.  In discussion   about the continuing revolutionary struggle in Egypt, the so called Arab awakening, Palestine and ElBaradei’s call for an international court to investigate former US officials for war crimes over the Iraq war.