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Informed Dissent
Pacifica's National Election Special
Informed Dissent - Pacifica's National Election Special
DATES:
10 Saturdays:
September 16, 23, 30;
October 7, 14, 21, 28;
November 4, 11, 18;
Total Time 2 hours
Produced in four stand-alone 30 minute segments
Informed Dissent, Pacifica Radio's new program hosted by
Mitch Jeserich, that looks at the issues effecting this year's
mid-term elections and beyond. In addition to anchor Mitch
Jeserich, there are reports from Pacifica stations and community
stations all over the country. Original music by Shawn Rhodes.
"A Look At
'Democrats in Power'"
2006-11-18
This week:
Election News Updates; the Progressive Democrats of America;
Yan Mei Xie on Foreign Policy; Interview with Bernie Sanders;
Fatima Ashraf on Prop 2 in Michigan; the 15th Congressional
District in Florida; Ron Paul; George Shrub; Lisa Loving with
Raed Jarrar; Scooter on Nancy; Naji Majar at Camp Democracy;
Report from Iraq; Mushroom Cloud Theatre; Ryme Katkhouda with
the DC Radio Coop; Ehud Olmert; Voices in Exile; Natasha Marsh,
League of Young Voters; Aya DeLeon; Maya with Davey D; Mos
Def; Sheldon Rampton, Center for Media and Democracy; Josh
Sonnenfield, Counter Recruitment; Outside the Box, Robert
Knight; Pacifica Statement on Habeas Corpus, Greg Guma; and
more...
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"Victory?"
2006-11-11
This week:
Election News Update; Reports on Nancy Pelosi; The Ohio Election;
Charles Rangel; Donald Rumsfeld; Joe Lieberman and the Connecticut
election; Howard Zinn; Gore Vidal; Aya DeLeon and John Trudell;
Mushroom Cloud Theatre; Robert Knight; and much more...
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"The Constitution"
2006-11-4
This week:
Election News Update; Habeas Corpus and Impeachment; Senator
Robert Byrd; Norton Scooter III; the Warner Bill; the President's
Personal Military Forces; the Onondaga People; Interview with
Lynne Stewart; Voices in Exile/Vozes in Exilio speaks with
John Brown Childs; Dried Shitake Theatre of the Future; The
Other Election History; Mushroom Cloud Theatre; Robert Knight;
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"Immigration
and Labor"
2006-10-28
This week:
Labor's influence on Capitol Hill; Spanish Political spots;
How the Labor movement lost its way; The rise of Domestic
Worker Organizing; White Supremacist influence on Elections;
State Senator Gill Cedillo; Jose Solorio - Santa Ana CA City
Council; Committee for Immigrant Rights; Directory of the
San Francisco Day Laborers Program; Mushroom Cloud Theatre;
Robert Knight;
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"It's All
Legal" - Corporate Control of Elections
2006-10-21
This week:
Rep. Henry Waxman (Dem. CA); A Look at K Street in DC; Eminent
Domain in the West; Dan Meek, Oregon Public Interest Attorney;
The People of New York; Pratap Chatterjee, Corpwatch; David
Goodman; The People of Madison, Wisconsin; Massie Ritsch,
Center for Responsive Politics; Taylor Lincoln of Public Citizen;
Doris Haddock (Granny D); The People of Portland; Robert Knight;
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"Stolen Elections"
- Voting Suppression and Irregularities
2006-10-14
This week:
Bob Fitrakis; Avi Rubin; Bev Harris; and more focusing on
the 2004 Ohio Vote, the 2000 Florida Vote, and other concerns
regarding "Stolen Elections";
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"Your Brain
Is My Playground"
2006-10-07
This week:
Mitch Jeserich with the week's news roundup; Losing faith
with the media; The framing game; Propaganda;
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"Race, Class
and Hurricanes" - What Katrina and Rita Exposed About
the Country and How it Effects This Years Mid-Term Elections
2006-09-30
This week:
Minutemen PAC paying for anti-immigrant candidates' commercials;
the Louisiana Insurance Commissioners Race; Traci Washington,
of NAACP, Louisiana; NOLA contracts; Indegenous voter disenfranchisement;
black Republicans; People with disabilities post Katrina;
Felon disenfranchisement from Voting; the ongoing impact on
Houston, particularly in the schools and among young African-Americans;
and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson on the government's real responsiblity
to taxpayers;
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"War,
Elections, and Democracy" - A Look at the U.S. War on
Iraq
2006-09-23
This week:
War, Elections, and Democracy - A Look at the U.S. War on
Iraq. Democrats' 'Plan for Iraq'; Economic Cost of War; Berkeley
Proposition on Bush Impeachment; Mexican Presidential Elections;
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"Fear,
Deception and Pavlovian Voting" - The Effects of 911
on Elections
2006-09-16
This week:
Fear, Deception, and Pavlovian Voting. We take a look at election
issues in a post-9/11 environment with reports filed from
producers from the Pacifica Radio Family throughout the country.
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