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Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 11/23/09

Fri, Nov 20 Listen

When Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue came out there was another Palin book also on the shelves -- The Nation Magazine's "Going Rouge" we'll talk to one of the editors Richard Kim and our panel on the Palin appeal. Then independent radio and television pioneer Amy Goodman on her new book, health care, and her mom. And a whole heap of ideas for creating jobs, from economist Dean Baker and the Nation's John Nichols. And Sarah and Emily Kunstler discuss Disturbing the Universe, their movie about...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 11/16/09

Fri, Nov 13 Listen

When the House passed its bill for healthcare reform, were pro choice women thrown under the bus? We'll talk about it with among others, Frances Kissling formerly of Catholics for a Free Choice. Then, The World Heath Organization says society will pay for giving short shrift to women's health. And Clay Shirky, author of "Here Comes Everybody" on the Twitter Power that could change the way people influence politics. All that and the melodious voice of Melody Gardot -- she dropped by our...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 11/09/09

Sun, Nov 8 Listen

Today, If the economy is working and the recovery package is creating jobs, why are so many Americans still unemployed? Our panel will try to figure it out ...Then can Atheists be as dangerous as Christian Fundamentalists? Former Evangelical right leader Frank Schaeffer thinks so.. He's the author of a new book, Patience with God. Commentator Kate Clinton has some thoughts on the high and low points of election '09-- Can you say Kalamazoo... And if you're looking for middle east peace, look...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 11/02/09

Sun, Oct 25 Listen

Wall Street booms while foreclosures continue to skyrocket. Is the market a sign of good things to come , or another bubble. We'll talk about it, And then India approves its first genetically engineered food -- an eggplant -- food activist, Devinder Sharma, tells us what to expect. Later in the show, Can pain be turned to power in Congo -- where more than 5 million lie dead. We speak with acclaimed playwright and organizer Eve Ensler and Rose Mapendo, a survivor. And finally, native American...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 10/26/09

Sat, Oct 24 Listen

Seeking to Give Latinos Voice, CNN produces a special series, but a whole lot of latinos with voices are mounting a campaign -- and they want CNN to drop Lou Dobbs..We'll talk to Roberto Lovato of Presente.org and among others, Erica Gonzalez, op-ed page editor for the country's oldest Spanish language daily... And then... fighting so called honor killing in Jordan..It's an uphill battle, but it's happening. We're joined by award winning journalist and crusader, Rana Husseini author of a new...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 10/19/09

Sat, Oct 17 Listen

More job seekers than ever, looking for fewer jobs, while Wall Street is on track to award record pay. Why aren't working Americans rebelling -- or maybe they are? We'll discuss how Right and Left plug into populist rage and whether there might be lessons to learn from this weekend's National March for Equality with Barbara Ehrenreich..Chip Berlet and Joel Silbermann and former labor secretary, Robert Reich has plans to put Americans back to work, And later in the show, dividends are up, but...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 10/12/09

Sat, Oct 10 Listen

A special focus on Afghanistan. As the US Troop presence enters its 9th year. Filmmaker activist Robert Greenwald has been asking the questions that remain unanswered still... And Afghan voices continue to be marginalized. In a very special interview, we talk with Zoya, of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan. Then, Caster Semanya broke onto the world stage with a record breaking 800 meter run, but her experience was soured when she was forced to take a gender test. Just...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 10/05/09

Sat, Oct 3 Listen

What defines real journalism today? Today on Grit Radio, independent reporters Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on standing up to the embedded press and taking hits at the door. And going where most in the money media won't, filmmaker Rick Rowley's back with a new piece on Washington's warlord strategy in Afghanistan. Later, constitutional rights lawyer Bill Quigley on the new military weapon that hit the streets of Pittsburgh. And queering the lines -- LGBTQ comic-strip artists gather to...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 9/28/09

Sun, Sep 27 Listen

Resources wars here and there. As world leaders convened at the United Nations General Assembly and top financial leaders headed to the G20 in Pittsburgh, GritRadio convened it's own gathering of world thinkers. On the Climate: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Matthai says there can be no environmental sustainability without people being equitably sustained. And radical pranksters the Yes Men say that to Fix the World, we first need to shock it out of its slumber. On the economic front,...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 9/21/09

Sun, Sep 20 Listen

The power of the purse -- to change foreign policy and our environment -- that's the common thread in this weeks GRIT radio. We'll discuss the pros and cons of a Divestment and boycott strategy of Israel for Palestine, and with with two very different but complementary reformers on the environmental front. Majora Carter, founder of the Sustainable South Bronx and Gil Friend, a long time businessman who believes in Natural Logic. First up, talking Van Jones, Climate Change, urban stewardship...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 8/14/09

Sun, Sep 13 Listen

Coming up Are states receiving stimulus funds holding out on needy mothers with kids? We'll get the scoop. Then,. The California Nurses Association have discovered that there really are death panels -- profit insurers denying millions of claims for health care. Van Jones resigns as Green Jobs Czar - We'll talk about it with author Tim Wise, FiredogLake Jane Hamsher, and others. And radio host, author Farai Chideya talks about writing, race and radio. It's all coming up on GRITradio, just...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 9/07/09

Fri, Sep 4 Listen

This Labor Day week we ask -- United, Divided or somewhere in between. Where does the Labor Movement stand...Bruce Raynor, president of a new union Workers United will be with us -- And worker takeovers. We'll re-air our conversation with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and there's music to occupy factories by -- from Seize the Day -- a folk group out of the UK. All that and Actor Playwright Wally Shawn is out with a new book of essays about among other things -- power, privilege and working.

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 8/31/09

Sun, Aug 30 Listen

Coming up, is the healthcare debate making you sick? We've got some good cool information which may be the best medicine. Then talking about health, how's the health of our military better for joining the resistance says Martha Gellhorn journalism prize winner Dahr Jamail who's out with a new book about resistance among soliders...Then not by a network of arms but by a support of safehouses, the US organization of MADRE is working with its sisters in Iraq to bring life saving health to Iraqi...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 8/24/09

Sat, Aug 22 Listen

Coming up - He's a bad guy in the corporate press and persona non grata in anti-socialist Washington, but Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia and the leader of thst country's Toward Socialism Party, has a lot to say that has relevance for the US. Hr sat down for an exclusive interview with GRIT Radio. Then, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, talks about being one of the few westerners on the ground during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Novelist Walter Mosely on his latest book, and Andrew and...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 8/17/09

Sun, Aug 16 Listen

Healthcare reform is a priority for Obama but what's it going to bring the rest of us? Also a report on the first ever Congressional hearing on Single Payer healthcare. A look at the state of the world's oceans -- and an interview with legendary political film maker Costa Gavras...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 8/10/09

Mon, Aug 10 Listen

On this week's show, with Congress in recess and healthcare in the balance, two perspectives on how to use your August -- Senator Bernie Sanders,and the DNC's Karen Finney on pushing for a public option and David Scheiner, for years Barack Obama's personal doctor and others on seizing the moment for a single payer plan. Then, an abortion provider speaks out -- Dr. Susan Wicklund -- and murder allegations involving the founder of the mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater... Jeremy...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 8/03/09

Sat, Aug 1 Listen

Who's down on a public healthcare option: The public or the media? We'll talk about the media's role in making healthcare policy, and we'll hear what really stands in the way of common sense change. Among this week's guests, Congresswoamn Maxine Waters, Katrina Vanden Huevel and CBS News's Nancy Giles. All that and Chris Hedges on the End of Literacy and Katha Pollitt with a new book of poems...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 7/27/09

Fri, Jul 24 Listen

People are giving a lot to the banks -- but what are they getting back? Charges are up and only going higher unless whistle blowers like our guest get their way. Then,the energy wars have hit the east, as Adirondack towns get visits from gas prospectors... All that and report on Honduras and a contemporary singer songwriter finds Woody Guthrie. Jonatha Brook will be our guest.

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 7/20/09

Sat, Jul 18 Listen

Health care, Immigrant care and the hidden scandal of Hunger in the USA. We'll talk about the Democrats' health plans with doctor and former DNC Chair Howard Dean, The Nation's Sasha Abramsky joins a panel discussion about hunger... and we find out what was happening on the immigration front while the Spanish speaking media were glued to the nomination of the first Latina to the Supreme Court.

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 7/13/09

Mon, Jul 13 Listen

Healthcare, Iraq care and a long hot city looming in the nation's cities. We'll talk with among other Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Scahill and Patrick Cockburn... Coming up right here on GRITradio

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 7/06/09

Fri, Jul 3 Listen

Is immigration reform dead? Not while 100s of thousands of men, women and children remain in detention -- We'll hear a panel discussion of why the leading reform groups tend to refrain from focusing there... Then the new president is visiting a new leader in Russia -- So why is he listening to the same old advisors -- long time Russia watcher, and author Stephen Cohen is here. All that and a visit to Henry Ford's all American town in the Amazon -- Fordlandia.

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 6/29/09

Sat, Jun 27 Listen

40 years after Stonewall, a defining moment in the struggle for gay rights and social justice, LGBT people are still discriminated against -- throughout the world. Why? Our panel will talk about. What's the point of homophobia? Then, from liberation to regulation -- will the president's new rules for financial institutions make any difference. Not according to former back regulator, William Black. Then, a conversation with Embedded Labor journalist Steve Early about the state of today's...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 6/22/09

Sat, Jun 20 Listen

The ultimate regulator? It just may be regular folks. On today's show -- the city of Baltimore's suing Wells Fargo for racial profiling...We'll hear from a former sub-prime broker turned whistle-blower .. Also a discussion of the protest movement in Iran, and a question for Tavis Smiley….

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 6/15/09

Sun, Jun 14 Listen

Healthcare reform is a priority for Obama but what's it going to bring the rest of us? Also a report on the first ever Congressional hearing on Single Payer healthcare. A look at the state of the world's oceans -- and an interview with legendary political film maker Costa Gavras...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 6/08/09

Sun, Jun 7 Listen

What does the restructuring of GM mean for the auto industry, the taxpayer, and the labor movement not to mention the US economy -- we'll talk about it with among others the New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, but first a panel discussion fo the killing of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita-- All that -- and a few thoughts on the President's trip to the Middle East, and a ground breaking recording artist from Morocco who's stirring up jazz....

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 6/01/09

Tue, Jun 2 Listen

A step backwards in California, what's next for the LGBT equality movement? And Writer Chronicler extraordinaire: Eduardo Galleano author of The Open Veins of Latin America -- On his New Book, "Mirrors, Stories of almost everyone". Why are we still so ruled by fear? Maybe it has something to do with what Galleano describes as the powerful Massive Fear Machines

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 5/25/09

Sat, May 23 Listen

Expanding who we remember on Memorial Day... We'll get an update on how the military's handling a mental health crisis among vets. And we'll talk to a military mom who lost one son to a bomb and one to suicide. They both deserve remembering she says. Also organizer, activist, Marshall Ganz on organizing a new peace movement.

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 5/18/09

Sun, May 17 Listen

Millions of Americans still face foreclosure. But there’s no guarantee that mortgage reform will make it through the Senate. On this week's GRITradio -- what is to be done about more mortgage madness, and actor and activist Mike Farrell on the exoneration of Tennessee Death Row inmate Paul House... And finally, could you be an Angel? Just maybe -- Chris Rabb, founder of Afro-Netizen and Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green -- a social conscious investment group discuss the possibilities...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 5/11/09

Sat, May 9 Listen

Coming up - He's a bad guy in the corporate press and persona non grata in anti-socialist Washington, but Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia and the leader of thst country's Toward Socialism Party, has a lot to say that has relevance for the US. Hr sat down for an exclusive interview with GRIT Radio. Then, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, talks about being one of the few weesterners on the ground during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Novelist Walter Mosely on his latest book, and Andrew and...

Grit Radio with Laura Flanders 5/4/09

Sun, May 3 Listen

One hundred days into his presidency, Barack Obama's scoring high in opinion polls for improving US world relations, but the United States boycott of the second global conference on racism left a bitter taste in some quarters. And Heather Boushey, senior economist at the Center for American Progress talks about the way that the unemployment is playing out along gender lines. Then the New Yorker's Rick Hertzberg, novelist Walter Mosely, feminist Faye Wattleton and former Connecticut Secretary...

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