Past "RADIO with a VIEW" Show Rundowns

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February 28, 2010

HEATHER MCGHEE (right), Director of the DEMOS office in Washington, D.C. spoke to Marc and David about the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Members of the organizations that make up United for Justice and Peace pay tribute to soldiers and civilians killed in Afghanistan.

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February 21, 2010

The Super Bowl has been played and NOLA's favorite football team took the trophy. Lots of ink was spilled describing what this sporting event meant to the city's residents. Journalist JORDAN FLAHERTY, an editor of "Left Turn Magazine" joined us by phone to discuss New Orleans politics and the tragic, ongoing saga of re-building after Hurricane Katrina.

ADAM VAUGHN, reporter/producer for KBCS, Bellevue, WA on homelessness in Vancouver, BC, Canada and efforts to increase the visibility of this social issue during the Winter Olympics.

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February 14, 2010

Valentine's Day Special with MIDORI, who spoke to us about "Aural" sex and her upcoming workshop in Brookline: "Seduction by voice and erotic story-telling." [WEBSITE]

Green-Rainbow Party candidate JILL STEIN (right), announces her campaign for Mass. Governor. More info plus audio here.

ADAM VAUGHN, reporter/producer with "One World Report" on KBCS, Bellevue, WA, reports on criticism leveled at the Vancouver Olympic Committee by indigenous People's groups and other Canadian political activists.

   
   

February 07, 2010

 

Journalist (Washington Correspondent for The Nation Magazine), pundit, author, JOHN NICHOLS (right in photo) and author and Professor ROBERT McCHESNEY speak out about the future of media and journalism. Their latest book is called "The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again."

 


[Presentations recorded at the Harvard Coop Bookstore on Tuesday February 2, 2010 - AUDIO AVAILABLE HERE]

{photo by Jason Pramas, Feb., 2010}

Conversation and music with the Cambridge, MA based roots-folk-reggae band, THE ISHMAELITES.

   
   

January 31, 2010

BRIAN MILLER, Executive Director of United for a Fair Economy visited the program to talk about the organization's "State of the Dream, 2010." It's an annual report on how the economy affects communities of color.

Author, social critic, and comedian BARRY CRIMMINS and author, editor, and producer ANTHONY ARNOVE help  us remember and reminisce about Howard Zinn.

GRACE NOTES with Grace Ross.

MAKING CONTACT" from the National Radio Project: "Hyde-ing The Right To Choose."

   
   

January 24, 2010

"Real World Economics" with UMASS Amherst economics professor and Dollars and Sense Collective Editor GERALD FRIEDMAN (right, top). The new D&S collection of essays on politics and economic policy is called "The Economic Crisis Reader."

Excerpts from a seminar on poverty and organizing in Boston with Union of Minority Neighborhoods Executive Director HORACE SMALL (right, middle).

PLUS: Bread and Puppets annual visit to Boston [Boston Center for the Arts - info here and here.] Performers MIKE ROMANSHYN and MARYANN COLELLA visit us in the studio.

GRACE NOTES with Grace Ross.


Puppets from the 2009 Bread & Puppets
performance at the BCA. (photo: DG)

   
   

January 17, 2010

We were joined by JACQUE-ANTOINE JEAN (right, top) of WMBR's "HAITI FOCUS" on the program to discuss local and international efforts to help people devastated by Tuesday's earthquake.

Activist, musician and author SI KAHN (right, bottom) discussed his newest book called "Creative Community Organizing: A Strategy Manual for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice."

JIM KLIMANSKI, civilian military lawyer and a member of the National Lawyers Guild will join us to discuss the case of soldier and musician Marc Hall who was imprisoned by military officials in Georgia for performing a song critical of the "stop-loss" policy that prevents service members from finishing their tours of duty and leaving the armed forces.

GRACE NOTES with Grace Ross.

 

   
   

January 10, 2010

WINSLOW MYERS, artist, peace activist, and author, "Living Beyond War: A Citizenšs Guide" joined us in the studio to discuss core values of non-violence and peaceful coexistence.

Economist, SUNY Stony Brook Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life, MICHAEL ZWEIG (right, bottom)  joined us on the phone from NYC. His latest project is a video essay/lecture entitled "Why Are We In Afghanistan?" [site]

GRACE NOTES with Grace Ross.

 

   
   

January 03, 2010

TOM JURAVICH, musician, UMASS Amherst Professor, labor activist, and author of the new book (and album) "At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century."

Plus comments on labor and the American workplace from MIT Professor Thomas Kochan, author and analyst Daniel Pink, and Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program Executive Director Elaine Bernard.

GRACE NOTES with Grace Ross.