Thu, 29 January 2009
In this 14-minute interview, Assembly Speaker Silver told us why he published a powerful statement vowing to reform NY's harsh Rockefeller Drug Laws.
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Tue, 27 January 2009
Scholar Keith Lawrence of the Aspen Institute says this may the best time in years to slow America's pace of mass imprisonment.
Direct download: 012709_Keith_Lawrence_on_penal_reform.mp3
Category:Prisons -- posted at: 12:43pm EDT |
Tue, 27 January 2009
Zahir Janmohamed of Amnesty International USA says the group is calling for an investigation of possible war crimes.
Direct download: 012709_Zahir_Janmohamed_of_Amnesty_International.mp3
Category:Israel/Palestine -- posted at: 10:36am EDT |
Mon, 26 January 2009
Lilly Ledbetter lost a key wage discrimination lawsuit but remained in the fight to get a flawed law changed.
Direct download: 012609_Hero_-_Lilly_Ledbetter.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 10:13am EDT |
Mon, 26 January 2009
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Mon, 26 January 2009
Andrew Stettner of the National Employment Law Project says recovery will take at least another year.
Direct download: 012609_Andrew_Stettner_on_unemployment.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 10:08am EDT |
Mon, 26 January 2009
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Thu, 15 January 2009
Hetty Rosenstein of the Communications Workers of America says Gov. Corzine's budget will hurt state employees.
Direct download: 011509_Hetty_Rosenstein_on_union_rights_in_NJ.mp3
Category:New Jersey -- posted at: 8:56pm EDT |
Thu, 15 January 2009
The Rev. Eugene Rivers of Boston's Azuza Christian Community reflects on Martin Luther King and the challenges facing today's black church leaders.
Direct download: 011509_Eugene_Rivers_on_MLK_and_the_black_church.mp3
Category:Progressive Politics -- posted at: 8:50pm EDT |
Thu, 15 January 2009
Maria Passannante-Derr of Greenwich Village is leading a non-perishable food drive as part of the Obama Inauguration national day of service weekend.
Direct download: 011509_Maria_Passannante-Derr_on_public_service.mp3
Category:Hunger & Nutrition -- posted at: 8:44pm EDT |
Thu, 15 January 2009
Direct download: 011509_Odd_News_-_Coffee_Makes_You_Hallucinate.mp3
Category:Strange News -- posted at: 8:41pm EDT |
Wed, 14 January 2009
The civil rights group got action from the Justice Dept. in the case of immigrants being beaten on Long Island.
Direct download: 011409_Hero_-_Latino_Justice_PRLDEF.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 9:40pm EDT |
Wed, 14 January 2009
Direct download: 011409_Isaac_Luria_of_J_Street.mp3
Category:Israel/Palestine -- posted at: 9:33pm EDT |
Wed, 14 January 2009
Obama says he will end the policy. The Center for Military Readiness says gays should be banned from service altogether.
Direct download: 011409_Elaine_Donnelly_wants_gays_out_of_military.mp3
Category:Military -- posted at: 9:25pm EDT |
Wed, 7 January 2009
Shortly Hours before he's voted the New York Senate's first black majority leader (and the first Dem in over 40 years), Malcolm Smith gives an exclusive interview to the Morning Show. |
Wed, 7 January 2009
Assemblyman Keith Wright of Harlem says the basic welfare grant will be increased for the first time in two decades. |
Wed, 7 January 2009
Once and future senator Pedro Espada Jr. explains the controversial path he charted in negotiating the final votes needed for Dems to take control of the senate. |
Wed, 7 January 2009
State Sen. John Sampson describes the new powers he and others will have as Democrats take control of the senate for the first time in over 40 years. |
Wed, 7 January 2009
Laura Seago of the Brennan Center explains why a new report still finds state government in need of reform. |
Wed, 7 January 2009
Direct download: 010709_Charles_Enderlin_from_Jerusalem.mp3
Category:Israel/Palestine -- posted at: 3:59pm EDT |
Tue, 6 January 2009
Yigal Carmon of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) says moderate Arab states are ambivalent or even supportive of the Hamas government.
Direct download: 010609_Yigal_Carmon_of_MEMRI.mp3
Category:Israel/Palestine -- posted at: 6:03pm EDT |
Tue, 6 January 2009
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston says Obama's stimulus package must be big enough and include re-regulation of the banking industry. |
Thu, 1 January 2009
City Councilman Eric Gioia talked about term limits, citizen involvement and New York's tough fiscal times.
Direct download: 010109_Eric_Gioia_on_NY_Politics.mp3
Category:Election 2009 -- posted at: 8:54pm EDT |