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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| We begin with an analysis of the Occupy Movement with Arun Gupta who has been at 16 occupy sites around the country and is the co-founder of the Occupy Wall Street Journal. He is covering the occupy movement for Salon.com and Alternet and we discuss the impact of the movement so far and its future direction. |
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| Then we examine the Stop Online Piracy Act that is now being debated in Congress with Gigi Sohn, the co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington D.C.- based public interest group working to defend citizen’s rights in the emerging digital culture. We discuss the dangers posed by this bill to Internet freedom, its embrace of censorship, and the extent to which it is a “stealth” attack on net neutrality. |
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| Then finally we speak with the Mayor of Madison Wisconsin, Paul Soglin, who joins us to discuss the recall now underway in Wisconsin to remove the divisive and polarizing governor Scott Walker who is personally feeling the heat as 1,000 protesters surrounded his home on Tuesday night soliciting signatures for the recall petition. |
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| MUSIC: Shabazz Palaces - Are You, Can You, Were You (Felt); Yacht - We Have All We've Ever Wanted; Mount Kimbie - Mayor; Bon Iver - Blindsided |
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