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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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Progressive Challenger to Hawkish Democrat Rep. Jane Harman Gets an Early Start RealAudio
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Interview with Marcy Winongrad, primary candidate, and author Norman Solomon, conducted by Scott Harris  Press reports in April revealed that Rep. Harman had, prior to the 2006 election, been overheard by a court-approved wiretap, as she negotiated what appeared to be an illegal deal with an Israeli agent working with the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, a lobby group. She is alleged to have offered to pressure the Department of Justice to reduce charges against two AIPAC officials accused of violating the Espionage Act in exchange for AIPAC's effort to have Harman appointed chair of the House Intelligence Committee. But because Harman was seen by the Bush administration as an ally on warrantless surveillance, an investigation into her activities was halted. Now Los Angeles high school teacher, Marcy Winograd, founder of the LA chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, has announced her candidacy to challenge Harman in the June 2010 Democratic primary. After percent of the vote against Harman. Between The Lines Scott Harris spoke with author and columnist Norman Solomon and candidate Winograd about why there is growing support for her attempt to unseat Jane Harman. Visit Marcy Winograd's website at www.winograd4congress.com. Related links:
Day of Action on Global Warming Set Writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben was the first author to write a book about global warming for a popular, not a scientific, audience. "The End of Nature" was published in 1989. Since then, McKibben has written often about the growing threat of climate change, and in 2007, he and a half-dozen students at Middlebury College in Vermont, where McKibben teaches, organized Step It Up, a day for people to draw attention to the threat of climate change and to call on Congress to take action. Fourteen hundred climate change vigils, teach-ins, rallies and marches took place on April 14, 2007.
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Excerpt of speech with author and climate activist Bill McKibben, recorded and produced April 3, 2009 by Melinda Tuhus 
Since then, McKibben has focused on the number "350," which represents the parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere above which life as we know it on Earth is unsustainable. Because scientists have confirmed that the earth's atmosphere is already above the 350 carbon threshold, McKibben has declared an emergency and is organizing another day of action on Oct. 24, 2009 to promote a strong U.S. position at the global climate talks in Copenhagen this December. The following is an excerpt of Bill McKibben's talk, delivered on April 3, 2009 at the Yale University Divinity School. For more information on Bill McKibben's latest organizing effort, visit his website at www.350.org This segment was recorded and produced by Between The Line's Melinda Tuhus.
The Progressive Magazine
One of America's enduring publications of the left is the Madison, Wisconsin based-Progressive Magazine. The Progressive celebrating it's 100th anniversary in 2009, threw a party in its hometown in May with speakers including historian Howard Zinn, author Naomi Klein, actor Robert Redford and civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson. Among the musicians who came to Madison to sing the praises of the magazine were Ani DiFranco, the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams.
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Interview with Matthew Rothschild, editor of the Progressive Magazine, conducted by Scott Harris  To mark its centennial year the Progressive also published a book titled, "Democracy in Print," featuring articles and poetry written by influential journalists, activists and artists who had appeared in its pages over the past century. The Progressive was founded in 1909 by U.S. Sen. Robert M. La Follette Sr. of Wisconsin, whose stated mission was to, "win back for the people the complete power over government -- national, state and municipal -- which has been lost to them." LaFollette attacked corporate greed, championed social and economic justice and resisted war, a set of principles still upheld by the publication today. Between The Lines Scott Harris spoke with the Progressive's current editor, Matthew Rothschild, who briefly recounts the magazine's proud heritage and summarizes some of the prescient articles published over the last 100 years, many of which continue to provide insight and understanding on the political and social struggles being waged today. Read the Progressive online at www.progressive.org. "Democracy in Print, The Best of the Progressive Magazine 1909 to 2009," is published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Credits: Executive producer: Scott Harris Segment producers: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus Senior news editor: Bob Nixon Program narration: Denise Manzari News reader: Indu Anand 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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