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LIVING ROOM  Friday 26 March 2010  Healthcare eternal battle; Blended Nation.  Healthcare insurance reform has passed—sort of; yet more hurdles continue to be erected.  We look at reality.  PLUS: the reality of race, as a blend, not an absolute.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Ellen Shaffer, co-dir Center for Policy Analysis
         Prof. Robt. Schapiro, Emory University School of Law
         Enzo Pastore, health policy specialist, Progressive States Network
         Michael Lighty, California Nurses Association

         Mike Tauber, Pamela Singh, co-authors "Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America"

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One corporation is taking the recent Supreme Court ruling, giving corporations  unlimited spending in elections, to its logical conclusion: it's running for Congress.  We learn how.  PLUS: not to worry about global warming—we'll just re-engineer the planet!  A conference underway now in Asilomar is planning just that.  We get the heads-up. 

With host Kris Welch

guests: William Klein, hired gun, campaign manager for Murray Hill Inc., running for Congress in Virginia

        Pat Mooney, exec. dir. ETC Group, Ottawa

        Briana Terkel, social media dir, engageher.org

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Day of Action for public education in California!  We have a live report from Frank Ogawa Plaza, where Oakland highschoolers are gathering; we talk with a UCB student organizer; and finally, a conversation with American educational thinker, critic and author, Henry Giroux.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Brian Edwards-Tiekert, from Frank Ogawa Plaza
        Saskia Ledezma, UCB pre-law senior
        Dr. Henry Giroux,  Global TV Network Chair Professorship, McMasters University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; author (The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex; Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? etc.)

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LIVING ROOM  Friday 26 February 2010  Healthcare summit: now what?  and Eve Ensler.  A review of the bidding from Obama's healthcare summit: was there a winner?  PLUS: the dynamic energy of performance artist and playwright Eve Ensler.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Ellen Shaffer, co-dir. Center for Policy Analysis
          Cathy Hurwit, Chief of Staff, Rep. Jan Schkowsky (D-Ill)
          Joan McCarter, Senior Policy Editor, Daily Kos

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