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June 14, 2009 Marc still in Europe; David goes solo again... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, media critic and author, Part two. Boston Community Reporter's Project Correspondent Chuck U Rosina reported on the Corporation 20/20 "2nd Summit on the Future of the Corporation." GREG GRANDIN, Professor of History, New York University, Latin America scholar, and author: "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City." Makes W I D E Turns - today featuring a report on a demonstration held last week by a number of activists from organizations working on economic democracy issues, workers rights, health care, etc., and the international ramifications of the global economic implosion. Plus ALEXA BRADLEY, Associate Director of the Grassroots Policy Project, on "Common Security Clubs."
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June 07, 2009 Marc traveling; David solo... including ruminations about graduations, platitudes from Deval Patrick, and Obama's visit with the Al-Sauds. DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, social and media critic, author, and documentary filmmaker visits to talk about his most recent book: "LIFE, Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back." Grace Notes with Grace Ross.
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May 31, 2009 KIP TIERNAN, for decades of or Boston's most recognizable and persistent anti-poverty activists joined Marc to discuss her "Moral Witness to the Injustice of Poverty and Hunger." Details here Anthropologist and author, HELENA NORBERG-HODGE, on the consequences of unchecked "globalization" and "capitalist manifest destiny." Grace Notes with Grace Ross. Makes W I D E Turns - today featuring part one of our story about the JP Green House and author, activist Bill McKibben. |
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May 24, 2009
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May 10, 2009
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May 3, 2009
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April 26, 2009
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April 19, 2009 David traveling; Marc solo... Labor Activist and author/journalist JANE LATOUR... CHESTER HARTMAN, urban planner and author on Obama’s first 100 days... Hartman serves as Director of Research of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, D.C. and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies... Grace Notes with Grace Ross. |
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April 12, 2009 This year, Pacifica Radio, the nation's oldest non-commercial broadcast network, celebrates 60 years of news, arts, and culture presented in a sometimes radical, always unconventional manner. But for years, perhaps every year in its existence, there have been power struggles and financial hardships. MITCHELL COHEN, Chair of the Local Station Board at Pacifica's New York City station, WBAI, updates on the situation there. JOE GERSON and RACHEL WILLIAMS joined us to discuss U.S. foreign policy and the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. They will join BU Professor Andrew Bacevich on April 30th in Milton, MA for a public forum on these subjects. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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April 05, 2009 This month the Dramashop at MIT presents "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper On Haiti." We spoke with MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies scholar, lecturer and "Antiretrovirals" Director JOHN BELL. Art is political, so we continud the show with visual artist and feminist writer KATE MILLETT, (right, bottom) whose show "Oppression and Pleasure" at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA has been called "nuanced and provocative." "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
Photo: Jason Pramas |
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March 29, 2009 The world premiere of the one-man play “The Buddha — In His Own Words” debuts in Boston at the Plaza Black Box Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts, before moving to the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre in Central Square. We had playwright and actor EVAN BRENNER in the studio. (right, top) Again helping us take an accounting of the economy and the Obama administration policy towards same, was SUNY Stonybrook Professor of Economics and Center for the Study of Working Class Life Director MICHAEL ZWEIG. (right, bottom) --> In this week's Makes W I D E Turns, Bolivian democracy activist JIM SHULTZ on globalization and the South American water wars. (speech recorded 3.13.09 at Jamaica Plain Forum) "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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March 22, 2009 RICK WEISSBOURD, Psychologist, Harvard Grad. School of Education, and author, "The Parents We Mean To Be: how well-intentioned adults undermine children's moral and emotional development. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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March 15, 2009 Interfaith Worker Justice, based in Chicago, has launched a new website that should interest all workers: "Can My Boss Do That?" dot com. We spoke to ANNE JANKS, the coordinator of this new clearinghouse for labor and workplace rights information. FAHIMA VORGETTS (right, middle), Director of the Afghan Women's Fund of the Women for Afghan Women organization on the social, political, and human rights status of women (and their families) in Afghanistan. DONNA BARANSKI-WALKER (right, bottom), Rebuilding Alliance Executive Director and host for Combatants for Peace "Courage of Conscience" Tour of the U.S., on the challenge of convincing Americans to view reconciliation as an alternative to taking sides in the Palestinian - Israeli conflict. |
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March 08, 2009 Independent Journalist DAHR JAMAIL (right, top), author of the 2007 book, "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq," joined Marc and David in the studio. He was in the Boston area to talk about his latest trip to Iraq, where conditions for the Iraqi people, he found, are "apocalyptic." David reported on the "Combatants for Peace" Tour featuring former Palestinian fighter, BASSAM ARAMIN (right, bottom), and former Israeli Army Commando, YANIV RASHEF (right, middle). Their speaking tour culminated in Sherborn, MA, where they received the Peace Abbey's Courage of Conscience Award. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross.
[Photos by David Goodman for I.B.I.S. Radio and Open Media Boston dot org ] |
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March 01, 2009
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February 08, 2009
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February 01, 2009 Economics, Quaker spirituality, and the environment blend into a sustainable solution in PETER BROWN's (right) book, "Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy." The McGill University Professor joined us by phone. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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January 25, 2009 Economics and the inauguration of Barack Obama dominated the show this week. Guests included: Author and Interfaith Worker Justice Executive Director KIM BOBO (right). Her new book is called "Wage Theft in America." Activists and organizers MEIZHU LUI, DEDRICK MUHAMMAD, and AMAAD RIVERA discuss the racial wealth divide (recorded Jan. 23, 2009 at Jamaica Plain Forum). And Cambridge, MA teacher's aide (and NEA union member) BOBBY TRAVERS live in the studio to discuss his trip to D.C. for the inauguration ceremonies. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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January 18, 2009 PETER SCHUMANN, artist, puppeteer, baker, founder and impresario of the Bread and Puppet Theater, joined us via phone from Vermont. Publicist Mary Curtin helped us give away tickets to listeners for the 2009 Bread and Puppet Sourdough Philosophy Spectacle and Circus. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross.
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January 11, 2009 Israel's invasion of Gaza and onslaught against Hamas continues to lead to a devastating humanitarian crisis there. Israel justifies the war and occupation, in part, as a response to mortar shells fired on settlements from the Gazan side. Israeli historian and MIT Fellow, Prof. ANAT BILETZKI joined us in the studio along with Swiss researcher JOHANNES HAUSHOFER (on the phone) to discuss findings from a study they conducted looking at the frequency of mortar attacks and and whichj side fires first following lulls in the fighting. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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January 04, 2009 David solo... NANCY MURRAY (right), Director of Education, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, joins the show by phone to discuss the campaign to educate the public about government surveillance technologies and its implications for privacy and civil rights. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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