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Be Wary of those Unpaid Internships, and How Scandinavians Got the Economy Right

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Vice President Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute joins us to discuss how Unpaid Interns Fare Worse in the Job Market and how the opportunities for paid work has been decreasing for recent graduates. Author George Lakey joins us to talk about his book Viki... Read more

Look by Solmaz Sharif

Airs at: Thu, 01/05/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Solmaz Sharif’s astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable losses of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles he... Read more

Ralph Nader on Political Perspectives

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  On this week's program, we hear a speech by Ralph Nader, recorded in Berkeley CA this past October, and hosted by Mickey Huff. Nader spoke on some of the themes from his latest book, "Breaking Through Power," and explained his proposal for a public-interest lobbying o... Read more

Richard Cahan on the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We discuss the new photo book co-authored by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II Richard Cahan is a journalist who writes about photography, art and history. He worked for the Chicago Sun-Times ... Read more

Dr. Zaher Wahab on Fight the Empire

Airs at: Thu, 01/05/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  After 40 years at Lewis & Clark, Professor of Education Zaher Wahab retired to work full-time in his home country of Afghanistan. “I don’t really believe in retirement,” Wahab says. “I want to change the world.”  According to Vern Jones, professor and chair of teacher... Read more

Noam Chomsky: UTOPIA

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In the darkest of times we have to imagine that a world of equality and environmental and social justice is possible. Are we dreamers? Not practical? Out of touch with reality? Perhaps. But throughout history it has been small groups of visionary activists who ignite ... Read more

Christmas Special: The Plight of Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem

Airs at: Fri, 12/23/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  One Land Many Voices
This hour, we examine the situation of Bethlehem today, including a report on al-Wallaja village, which is a Christian Palestinian village located just outside of Bethlehem, produced by Ghassan Bannoura and Hazem Jamjoum; an interview with Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh of Bet... Read more

How does the melting Arctic affect the rest of the world?

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Disability Awareness
  Disability Awareness is off this week, instead we present this special program: The Arctic is now warming twice as fast as the global average. That's the finding in the 11th Arctic Report Card released on December 13, 2016, at the annual American Geophysical Union me... Read more

Project Censored Show on Political Perspectives

Airs at: Wed, 12/21/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  For the first half of the program, Peter and Mickey discuss the conflict in Syria; their guest is independent journalist Eva Bartlett, who recently returned from Aleppo and is now on a U.S. speaking tour. She explains why most corporate media coverage of Syria doesn't... Read more

Alternative Radio: From a Nun on the Bus

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Simone Campbell is a Catholic nun and an attorney who lobbies in Washington on issues of economic justice, immigration reform, and healthcare. She belongs to the Sister of Social Service and is the executive director of the NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice.  ... Read more