2011 Program Archive

Apr 6 - Pacifica Network Day of Programming on Labor in America

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 Andy Stern is the former president of SEIU and senior fellow at the Georgtown Policy Institute.

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 Harley Shaiken is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.  He studies the issues of labor and the organization of work.  

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 Jeff Farmer is the Director of Organizing for the Teamsters union.

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Leon Fink is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and he edits the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americans. His latest book is Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry from 1812 to the Present.
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Apr 5 - Pacifica Network Day of Programming on Nuclear Power

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 Dave Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists David Lochbaum Union of Concerned Scientists

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 Dan Hirsch of Committee to Bridge the Gap Dan Hirsch  

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 Victor Gilinsky, former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Victor Gilinsky  

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 Mike Gray, co-writer of The China Syndrome and The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror. Mike Gray China Syndrome
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Apr 4 - KSM Trial in Gitmo?; Showdown in Ivory Coast; Learning from Learning Chinese

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 Scott Horton assesses the Obama administration's flip-flop on a military trial for 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Scott Horton  

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 Nii Akuetteh discusses the situation in Cote d'Ivoire. Nii Akuetteh  

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 Deborah Fallows, author of Dreaming in Chinese, discusses China's reaction to current events and the ways that language shapes thinking about society and politics. Deborah Fallows Dreaming In Chinese

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April 3 - Arab Spring; Reactions to the Koran Burning; CIA Husband and Wife Operatives

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 Samer Shehata, a professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies talks about the Arab spring.

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C. Christine Fair, a former United Nations political officer and a professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University reacts on the media-hungry pastor Terry Jones' burning of the Koran.

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Robert Baer and Dayna Baer, authors of the new book The Company We Keep: A Husband and Wife True Life Spy Story talk about their real life experience in CIA.
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Mar 31 - Nuclear Crisis in Japan; War in Libya; Is Globalism Over?

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 Robert Alvarez, an Institute for Policy Studies senior scholor, who directs the IPS nuclear policy project and a former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy discusses the growing risks of the nuclear disaster in Japan.

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 Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, author and journalist, Mohammed Bamyeh speaks about the Libyan revolution.

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Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times war correspondent, who writes a regular column at truthdig.com examines corporate power and the end of globalism.
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