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January 11, 2008 Living Room – January 11, 2008
It’s an International Day of Action on the 6th anniversary of Guantanamo. PLUS: filmmaker Ann Hershey with her new Tillie Olsen biopic. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.
Guests: Shane Kadidal, managing attorney, Global Justice Initiative (Guantanamo Project), Center for Constitutional Rights
Eric Larson, Witness Against Torture
Ann Hershey "Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action" opens Monday 1/14 at the Grand Lake
Maxine Hong Kingston, author and teacher (she missed it yesterday, but she’ll be on the phone today!) re: "Veterans for War, Veterans for Peace"
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9 min
January 10, 2008 Living Room – January 10, 2008
California’s budget and State of the State. PLUS: Maxine Hong Kingston and a contributor to her new collection of writing by U.S. veterans.
Guests:
Lenny Goldberg, Lenny Goldberg and Associates, Sacto.
Maxine Hong Kingston, author (The Woman Warrior; Tripmaster Monkey; To Be the Poet; etc.) with latest book "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace".
Sean McClaine Brown, disabled Gulf War vet, contributor to book.
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9 min
January 04, 2008 Living Room – January 4, 2008 at 12:00pm
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9 min
January 03, 2008 Living Room – January 3, 2008 at 12:00pm
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9 min
December 28, 2007 Living Room – December 28, 2007
What the assassination of Benazir Bhutto could mean, for Pakistan and the world. PLUS: a recent delegation to Burma reports on the status of Aung San Suu Kyi. PLUS: The Confiscation of American Prosperity.
With host Kris Welch.
Guests:
P.J. Crowley, senior fellow Center for American Progress; former staff National Security Council, Clinton administration.
Alan Senauke, Zen priest, assoc. dir. Buddhist Peace Fellowship, just returned from Burma.
Michael Perelman, prof. econ, Cal State Chico, author "The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression".
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9 min
December 27, 2007 Living Room – December 27, 2007
The One and Only Marga Gomez. Operation Iraqi Freedom vet Paul Rieckhoff (RIKE-off) in a rabble-rousing interview.
Guests: Marga Gomez, comedian and chick magnet, re:New Year’s show at the Victoria, S.F.
Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq vet, founder Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
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9 min
December 21, 2007 Living Room – December 21, 2007
New Orleans housing faces the bulldozers. And the rest of us can’t rest easy either: the Arctic is melting at an ominous rate. PLUS: the EPA denies a California effort to address global warming.
Guests:
Sakura Kone, media relations, Common Ground Relief, New Orleans, re: Thursday’s City Council ok of bulldozing public housing.
Don Perovich, sea ice geophysicist, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, New Hampshire re: ominous tipping point.
Dan Kalb, Union of Concerned Scientists, re: California green-house gas law.

With your host Kris Welch.

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9 min
December 20, 2007 Living Room – December 20, 2007
Shelley Berman celebrates Christmas the Jewish way. PLUS: the dangers of poetry with Roger Housden. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.
Guests:
Shelley Berman, comedian, actor ("Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Boston Legal").
Roger Housden, author/editor (Ten Poems series, Dancing with Joy, etc.) w/new book: "Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again".
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9 min
December 14, 2007 Living Room – December 14, 2007
Plans to build five hydroelectric dams on two large Chilean rivers are meeting fierce opposition.
PLUS: can you make up your mind to be happier? James Baraz says yes. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.
guests: Aaron Sanger, Esq., dir. International Rivers Network Patagonia Campaign
Juan Pablo Orrego, Ecosistemas, Chile
James Baraz, founding teacher Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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9 min
December 13, 2007 Living Room – December 13, 2007
A ministry to the homeless in S.F.’s Tenderloin takes us on a "street retreat". With host Kris Welch, noon to one.
guests: Martha Boesing, award-winning feminist playwright
Rev. Kay Jorgensen, co-founder Faithful Fools Street Ministry
Sister Carmen Barsody, co-founder Faithful Fools
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