Commentary- response to Glenn Beck’s remarks on progressives; the original 1912 Progressive Platform.
Jeremy Taylor: Executive Director of Free Burma Alliance, a non-profit coalition of human rights & humanitarian relief organizations dedicated to bringing freedom to the oppressed people of Burma. He is the director & producer of the documentary “Burma: An Indictment About the Xenophobic Military Junta of Myanmar”. www.freeburma.org
Tom Hayden has been a leading American social & political activist, best known as one of the founders of the SDS; he continues to be a leading voice for ending the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq, wiping out sweatshops & improving labor relations, saving the environment, and reforming government through citizen participation. “The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama” re-examines the legacy of the 1960s political counter movement up to the present.
Commentaries: Tibet’s temperatures highest since records began; the US debt- we’re headed for default!
Healthcare Legislation: New York State proposes legislation to allow treatment for STDs in children without parents knowledge or consent- including vaccines, medications.
Commentary: Jamaica: the IMF, World Bank, structured adjustments, end of food security- and poverty; what will be Haiti’s fate?
Don Lattin- continuing the discussion: religious voices of peace activism; who speaks out for human rights from the liberal & conservative media?
Commentaries: biofuels, clean coal; Is it all just a bad dream(Ron Paul).
Calls: Gary addresses concerns of listeners.
Updates: vaccines; biofuels; cell phones; climate change; health effects of pesticides.
Call ins: energy exchange; activism; how to avoid vaccines for children.
Derrick Jensen: environmental activist, author. His first book, “Listening to the Land” begins:
“We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means–all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.”
Why does our ‘civilization’ behave so destructively, so unsustainabely- to the point of its own self-annihilation? Gary & Derrick discuss the problems of our society, civilization, the economy & environment- and offer some reasoned solutions. www.derrickjensen.org
“Endgame, Volume I: the Problem of Civilization”, “Endgame, Volume II: Resistance”,
“As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial”
CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS
Dr Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned environmental & social activist, formerly one of India’s top nuclear physicists. She is the principle founding leader of India’s ecological & ecofeminism movement. In 1982 Dr Shiva founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi, & Navdanya– an organization dedicated to the restoration of organic farming across India & the preservation of indigenous knowledge & culture. For decades, Vandana has fought for changes in the globalized practices of agriculture & food. Travelling the world, she speaks out against the biopiracy of indigenous foods & their medicinal properties by large agricultural & pharmaceutical corporations. Her activist efforts have created grassroots organizations throughout the developing world to empower women & counter the genetic engineering of crops.
“Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis” “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, “Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed” www.VandanaShiva.org www.Navdanya.org
Guest Host: Mitchell Rabin
Updates: aspirin-the big lie; the Arctic may be a thing of the past.
The Mad as Hell Doctors: Frustrated with the health care ‘options’ coming out of Washington, D.C., six “Mad as Hell” Oregon physicians are taking an road trip across America to lobby Congress for a single-payer health care system.
Paul Hochfeld MD: Emergency Room Physician, Good Samaritan Hospital, Corvallis, Or.
“Three years ago I decided to channel my frustrations with our really dumb health care system to produce a video about why it is so sick. Through that exploration, I have concluded that the only way we are going to control costs and accomplish the moral imperative of true universal access without bankrupting our government, is with a single risk pool, aka Single Payer.”
http://www.ourailinghealthcare.com/ “Health, Money and Fear”
Eugene Uphoff MD: Family Practice Physian, Portland, Or; Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), Portland Chapter; he has cared for families for over forty years. “My urgent dedication to the cause of single payer healthcare reform follows the U.S. Constitutional mandate to ‘promote the general welfare’ of all our citizens.” “Standard of Care” “Diagnosis Deferred”
https://www.madashelldoctorstour.com