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Ian Illuminato describes the threats that nanotechnology poses to people and the environment. And Mark Schapiro contrasts the European Union's regulation of toxic chemicals in everyday products with the US approach.

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Obama's healthcare reform has problems—from every direction. We hear the latest. PLUS: born, raised, still living in Lahore, a Harvard grad tells us what life is really like in Pakistan.  With host Kris Welch.

guests: Ellen Shaffer, co-director Center for Policy Analysis
         Deb Richter, past pres. Physicians for a National Health Program; practicing doc in rural Vermont
          Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry (they've been working on neutralizing the Blue Dogs)
           Ali Sethi, writer (The Nation, NYTimes OpEd, etc.); author "The Wish Maker"

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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians are demonstrating every day that the election there is NOT over.  We hear the latest.  PLUS: climate change is here, now, and here's how we're feeling it—a new report lays it out.  AND two local poets, with new work. 

With host Kris Welch.

guests: Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy
        Shahram Aghamir, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
        Patrick Disney,  nat'l legis. dir. Nat'l Iranian American council

        Dr. Brenda Eckwurzel, fed. climate scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists

        Rebecca Foust, Joan Gelfand, Bay Area poets

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Bush Era domestic spying is being defended and practiced under the Obama administration. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to force AT&T and the U.S. Government to abide by the Constitution. Plus, Moe's Books on Tellegraph Ave in Berkeley is turning 50, we go inside
the store with Moe's daughter.

With guest host Eric Klein.

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Lawmakers in Sacramento are desperate for cuts to close the $24 billion budget gap, our guests have some suggestions: Shut down the state's Juvenile Justice System, scale back the drug war, and end the death penalty. Also, the Department of Defense calls protests "low
level terrorism." Plus, the 10th anniversary of Napster, why file sharing on the internet needs to remain free.

With guest host Eric Klein.

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Corporations are running things, but it doesn't have to be this way. In fact, it wasn't that long ago that human kind had many different kinds of money to spend and invest instead of just one. Can we get that back? We speak to author, media critic and old school cyber-punk
Douglas Rushkoff about his new book "Life Inc. How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back."

With guest host Eric Klein.

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In these difficult times who's fighting for the little guy? Consumer Watchdog, Free Press, and Just Cause Oakland that's who. Chevron gives $350,000 to Schwarzenegger, was that to keep an oil extraction tax off the table? Obama picks a new FCC chair, will the internet get more
free and open now? And Bank of America gets kicked out of Oakland for it's sub-prime practices.

With guest host Eric Klein.

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The century old business model for the newspaper business is now obsolete, throwing tens of thousands of journalists out of work, and yet it's never been a more exciting time to be a reporter. Jay Rosen and David Weir are guests, with guest host Eric Klein.

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The State Legislature in Sacramento is holding hearings on Governor Schwarzenegger proposed cuts – totaling 5 billion dollars – which would hit higher education, close state parks, kill heath care for the neediest Californians,  AND mean the end State Welfare. We're joined by a panel
of folks including state senator Lonnie Hancock and CFT's Marty Hittelman.

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Host Tom Mazzolini will be featuring the blues from the 40th Anniversary Woodstock experience cds featuring the late Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter.  Also featured will be new music from Duke Robillard, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats and the Delmark 55 Years of Blues recording.

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