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New Haven Advocate's "Best of New Haven 2001" -- Staff Picks -- Scott Harris, Best Radio News Reporter WPKN Radio, 89.5 FM ISSUES IN DEPTH
'A New Era of Responsibility'
"Push Obama to Follow Through on Peace Vows," by Amy Goodman, The Capital Times (Wisconsin), Jan. 22, 2009 "How to Push Obama," by John Nichols, The Nation, Jan. 12, 2009 "The Danger of Green Stimulus," Jesse Jenkins, Huffington Post, Jan. 5, 2009 "The First Hundred Days or the Last Hundred Days? Obama's Rendezvous with Destiny -- and Ours," by Ira Chernus, by TomDispatch.com, Dec. 10, 2008 "Who Will Seize the Moment?" Turning Crisis into Opportunity, by Ralph Nader, Counterpunch, Dec. 4, 2008 "Community Organizers Press Obama for Real Change," by CommonDreams.org, Dec. 3, 2008
Civil Liberties
"The effects of Obama's refusal to investigate Bush crimes," by Glen Greenwald, Salon.com, Jan. 20, 2009 "Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture, " by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 18, 2009 "Obama Has to Hold Bush Accountable for the Laws He Broke," by Elizabeth Holtzman, The Nation, Jan. 16, 2009 "Obama Must Restore the Constitution: Prosecuting Bush and Cheney," by Dave Lindoff, Counterpunch.org, Jan. 16-19, 2009
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Human Rights Solutions
"Single-Payer Health Care Would Stimulate Economy," by John Nichols, The Nation, Jan. 15, 2009 "Fulfilling the Promise of Human Rights: The Universal Declaration at 60," audio recordings from a Connecticut conference marking the 60th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn., Dec. 6, 2008 A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Converting Fossil Fuel/War Economy to Green, Renewable Energy/Peace Economy
"Green Jobs Should Top Our Economic Recovery List," by Juleyka Lantigua, Jan. 6, 2009 "Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right,"by Katrina Van Heuvel, The Nation, Jan. 9, 2009 "Nine Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year," by Deepak Chopra, Alternet, Jan. 1, 2009 "Electric Cars Put Hawaii on The Road to Independence," by Times Online/UK, Dec. 4, 2008 "Weapons Come Second: Can Obama Take on the Pentagon?" by Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch.com, Nov. 25, 2008 The FY 2009 Pentagon Spending Request - Global Military Spending, by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Economic Crisis
"The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse," by Jayati Ghosh, The Guardian/UK, Jan. 9, 2009 "Ideas for Obama, "by Paul Krugman, by The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2009 "The Ponzi Scheme Presidency: Bush's Legacy of Destruction," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, January/February, 2009 "Fiscal Therapy," by David Cay Johnston, Mother Jones, January/February, 2009 "A Look At Wall Street's Shadow Market: How Some Arcane Wall Street Financial Instruments Magnified Economic Crisis," 60 Minutes, Oct. 5, 2008 "Swapping Secrecy for Transparency," by Christopher Cox, SEC Chairman, The New York Times Op-Ed, Oct. 19, 2008 "The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street: Steve Kroft On Credit Default Swaps And Their Central Role In The Unfolding Economic Crisis," 60 Minutes, Oct. 26, 2008 Broken Government
"Broken Government: By The Numbers," 40 ways in which the federal government failed to perform under the administration of George W. Bush, 2001-2008 Class Warfare
"How the Rich Are Different From You and Me,"Places that went for Obama are richer and smarter than places that went for McCain, by Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing, Slate, Dec. 11, 2008 "Questions About the $700 Billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Funds, " First Report of the Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization, Dec. 10, 2008 War And Profiteering
"This Is Change? Twenty Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House," by Jeremy Scahill,Alternet, Nov. 20, 2008 "Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart," Why Americans Shouldn't Go Home, by Tom Engelhardt, Nov. 12, 2008 "The Future of Iraq: The Spoils of War," Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity, by Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb, The Independent/UK, Jan. 7, 2007 "Noam Chomsky on Middle East Conflict and U.S. War Plan Against Iraq," Between The Lines interview with Noam Chomsky, conducted by Scott Harris, for the Week Ending May 3, 2002 The Iraq Crisis, a Global Policy Forum, U.N. Security Council section on the 13 years of sanctions and other background of the war, the humanitarian situation, the importance of Iraq's huge oil resources, and disputes over a post-war government and reconstruction plan "Pipeline Politics: Oil, The Taliban, and the Political Balance of Central Asia," World Press Review Special Report, November-December 2001 |
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Cindy Sheehan Calls for Protest
Speaking to hundreds of U.S. Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Feb. 27, President Barack Obama outlined his plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. The former senator from Illinois, whose early opposition to the war helped him win the Democratic party nomination last year, said he would remove most U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of August 2010, three months later than his campaign pledge.
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Interview with peace activist Cindy Sheehan, conducted by Scott Harris  Disturbing to many in the nation's peace movement, Obama said he would leave 35,000 to 50,000 transitional American forces in Iraq until the end of 2011 to train and advise Iraqi security forces, hunt terrorist cells and protect civilian and military personnel. However, some U.S. generals have stated that they believe U.S. forces should remain in Iraq past Dec. 31, 2011, an extension that can be requested by the Iraqi government. While Obama's withdrawal plan won support from his presidential campaign rival, Republican John McCain, and some Democrats like Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, other Congressional Democrats expressed doubts and anti-Iraq war leaders declared their firm opposition to the withdrawal plan. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Cindy Sheehan, who galvanized the national peace movement when in 2005 she camped out at George Bush's Crawford Texas ranch, demanding a meeting to ask the president for what noble cause her son Casey, a U.S. Army Specialist, had died while serving in Iraq. Sheehan explains why she believes President Obama is delaying a full withdrawal from Iraq and how his escalation of the war in Afghanistan should be a wake up call to the American peace movement. Cindy Sheehan is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Listen to her weekly radio show at CindySheehansSoapBox.com. For more information on the March 21st protest commemorating the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, visit www.pentagonmarch.org
Obama Administration Lifts
After just over a month in office, President Barack Obama has taken steps to reverse two policies put in place by the Bush administration that limited women's access to reproductive health care, both in the U.S. and abroad.
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Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro Choice, conducted by Melinda Tuhus 
Not long after his January 20 inauguration, Obama reversed the Mexico City rule, also known as the Global Gag Rule, which prevented health providers who received federal funds from discussing with their patients the possibility of abortion as an option. The president also indicated he will start the process of repealing rules put in place in the last days of the Bush administration by Mike Leavitt, former secretary of health and human services. One of these regulations allows health care workers to decline to provide care to women if such care -- like providing birth control -- violates their own religious or moral principles. In the budget Obama presented to Congress at the end of February, he proposes expanding eligibility under Medicaid rules for family planning services for low-income women. Between The Lines Melinda Tuhus spoke with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro Choice, about these early indications of President Obama's clean break with Bush administration policies on women's reproductive health over the past eight years. Contact NARAL Pro Choice by calling (202) 973-3032 or visit NARAL's website at www.prochoiceamerica.org
Unsustainable Debt Hurts
As the world attempts to deal with the current devastating economic collapse -- of a magnitude not seen since the days of the Great Depression 80 years ago -- many people living in impoverished nations are struggling to simply survive. Developing nations, already hard hit by a steep rise in food prices, are now having to deal with the fallout from the global financial crisis.
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Interview with Neil Watkins, national coordinator with the Jubilee USA Network, conducted by Scott Harris  As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama was the primary sponsor of the Global Poverty Act of 2007 that would have committed the United States to the reduction and elimination of global poverty and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people who live on less than $1 per day. Although the bill was never voted on by the full Senate, anti-poverty groups are hoping Obama has brought his commitment to fighting global poverty with him to the White House. One of these groups is Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of more than 80 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the cancellation of crushing debts to fight poverty and injustice in the world's poorest nations. Jubilee, along with a group of religious leaders, is working to schedule a meeting with Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on the world's poor. Between The Lines Scott Harris spoke with Neil Watkins, national coordinator with Jubilee, who outlines what policies he hopes President Obama will pursue to address global economic justice. Find out more about the Jubilee USA Network's "What's on Your Heart" Campaign by calling (202) 783-3566 or visit their website at www.jubileeusa.org Related links:
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Newswriter: Denise Manzari Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Bill Cosentino Copy editor: Chris Ferrio Senior web editor/producer: Anna Manzo Web producer: Jeffrey P. Yates Web consultant: Gary Trujillo Newswire editor: Hank Hoffman Photo editor: Scott Harris Outreach coordinator: Anna Manzo Distribution: Anna Manzo and Jeffrey P. Yates Theme music: Written by Richard Hill and Jody Gray, and performed by Mikata
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