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Could the war on marijuana finally be coming to an end? Californians will go to the polls this November 2nd, to vote on whether to legalize pot for all adults to smoke. It’s about tax revenue, it’s about jobs, but at its roots, its about ending a failed war on marijuana that has put hundreds of thousands in jail and given them crippling criminal records.  On this edition, we look at the transforming culture that put Prop 19 on the ballot, and the changes that might take place if it’s passed into law.

Featuring:

Froggy, Los Angeles resident; Jill Harris, Drug Policy Alliance managing director; Charlie Rangel, New York City Congressman; John Russo, Oakland City Attorney; Jeff Jones, Oaksterdam University Los Angeles campus chancellor; Richard Lee, Oaksterdam founder and Prop 19 bankroller; Tamar Todd, Drug Policy Alliance attorney; Marisa Garcia, former college student who lost financial aid due to marijuana conviction; Bishop Ron Allen, No on 19 spokesperson, Casey Given, Jessica Wong, Jeff Yunis, University of California at Berkeley students; Dan Rush, UFCW Local 5 special operations director, Andrew Dupree, Humboldt Patient Resource Center grow room employee

For More Information:

 Yes on Prop 19

http://yeson19.com/

No on Prop 19

http://www.noonproposition19.com/

California Legislative Analyst Office’s report on Prop 19

http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/19_11_2010.pdf

Weed Wars-Sacramento Bee Blog on Prop 19 and marijuana related news

http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/

Oaksterdam University

http://www.oaksterdamuniversity.com/

Drug Policy Alliance

http://www.drugpolicy.org/homepage.cfm

Students for a Sensible Drug Policy

http://www.ssdp.org/

ACLU Marijuana Law Reform

http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform/marijuana-law-reform

NORML-The National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

http://norml.org/

Incarceration Nation — Marijuana Arrests For Year 2009 Near Record High – Alternet

http://bit.ly/9LWWyC

Educating Voters on California’s Prop 19: the Highs, the Lows, and the Crazies

http://cannalawyeragainst19.blogspot.com/

Stoners Against the Prop. 19 Tax Cannabis Initiative

http://votetaxcannabis2010.blogspot.com/

Is Pot Legalization the Gay Marriage of 2012?

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Is-Pot-Legalization-the-Gay-

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Long time Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk knows the difference between real terror and rhetoric.  He’s interviewed Osama Bin Laden 3 times, and been on the front lines with numerous armies—from the Syrians to the Israelis.  On this edition, Robert Fisk speaks about the power of words in shaping public opinion and public policy…and the tragic consequences of a press corps that doesn’t question the official line.

Special thanks to Karl Jagbandhansingh and Marie Choi for help producing this show.

Featuring:

Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for The Independent

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On September 11th, 1973, a US-backed military junta toppled Chilean president Salvador Allende, marking the beginning of decades of repression. On this edition, we bring an encore presentation of Pauline Bartolone’s documentary about a group of Chilean Exiles in the US who transform their experience of terror into artistic expression.

 
Featuring:  

Hector Salgado, Chilean exile and musician/film maker; Quique Cruz, Chilean exile and musician/artist; Fernando “Feña” Torres, musician and organizer; Lichi Fuentes, musician. 

For More Information:

Chile, September 11, 1973 information
http://www.iisg.nl/collections/chile/

Grupo Raiz
http://www.gruporaiz.org/

Human Rights Watch – Chile (Country Profile)
http://www.hrw.org/americas/chile

La Pena Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
www.lapena.org

Documentaries and projects of ‘Grupo Raiz’ members

Archeology of Memory – A Project by Quique Cruz
http://www.archeologyofmemory.org/about.html

‘Chile – Promise of Freedom’
A radio documentary by the Freedom Archives
http://www.freedomarchives.org/Chile/index.html

Lichi Fuentes
http://www.lichifuentes.com/

‘Special Circumstances’ – A Film by Hector Salgado and Marianne Teleki
http://www.specialcircumstancesthemovie.com/

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It’s been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It’s a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we’ll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City. 

Special thanks to Between the Lines at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

 Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.’ moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor; Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director.

Producer: Andrew Stelzer
Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham

Station Relations:  Daphne Young

Web Editor: Jeff GiaQuinto

Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alton Byrd & Alfonso Hooker

For More Information:

Between the Lines

A weekly radio news magazine show

http://btlonline.org/

The Black Commentator

http://blackcommentator.com/

Mullica Hill, NJ

CUNY Graduate Center

http://www.gc.cuny.edu/

New York, NY

Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard University

http://bit.ly/butM2t

Cambridge, MA

Left Forum 2010

http://leftforum.org/

New York, NY 

Rutgers School of Law–Newark

http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/

Newark, NJ

Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:

 Audio recordings of panel discussions recorded at the Left Forum, March 20, 2010 in NY.

http://www.btlonline.org/2010/leftforum032010.html

 Music:

Mass Appeal by Gangstarr

Lovesick by Gangstarr

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BP’s Macondo well seems to be capped, and we can all breathe a sigh of relief…or can we?  Many blame BP or the US government for the lack of oversight of the well, and the efficiency of the response to the leak.  But there’s a larger issue at hand—our societies continued use of oil.  Even George W Bush said we were addicted, and that was in 2006.  On this edition, we go to the Gulf Coast, to hear why despite the dangerous and deadly consequences, locals aren’t ready to turn their back on the oil industry. What does that mean for the rest of us, as we pursue a future free of fossil fuels?

Featuring: Antonia Juhasz, Global Exchange’s Chevron Program director and author of the Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do To Stop It; Carla Perez, Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project Program coordinator; Lulu DarDar and Scotti, BP cleanup workers; Albert Naquin, Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimachas Tribal Chief; Terry Labouche, R.J. Molinair & Clairece Fralou, Gulf Coast residents;  Robert Gorman, Catholic Charities Houma-Thibodaux Executive Director; Aaron Viles, Gulf Restoration Network Campaign Director

For More Information:

For Videos of the Speeches heard in the show, go to:

http://climatevoices.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/bp-disaster-and-big-oil-teach-in-carla-perez-movement-generation/

Gulf Restoration Network –New Orleans, LA

http://healthygulf.org/

Global Exchange Chevron Program –San Francisco, CA

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/chevronprogram/

Mobilization for Climate Justice

http://www.actforclimatejustice.org

Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project –Oakland, CA

http://www.movementgeneration.org/

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Climate change is upon us.  The world’s water supply is shrinking.  And increasingly, local, organic food is becoming more than just a fad or a luxury for wealthy foodies.  On this edition, we go to California, America’s leading producer of fruits, vegetables, and dairy, to see some examples of how the nation’s agricultural industry is slowly but surely, moving away from factory farms. 

 Featuring:

Joe Schirmer, Dirty Girl Produce owner and dry farmer; Juliet Christian Smith, Pacific Institute Senior Research Associate; William Friedland, University of California at Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Community Studies; Jim Leap, UC Santa Cruz Agro-Ecology Center Farm Operations Manager; John Fiscalini,  Fiscalini Farms President and CEO; Brian Fiscalini,  Fiscalini Farms General Manager; Mariano Gonzalez, Fiscalini Cheese Company Head Cheese Maker; Richard Machado and Christopher Montes, Cheese makers; Gary Peterson, Agriculture and Land-based Training Association (ALBA) Deputy Director; Karina Canto, ALBA agriculturist and farm incubator program participant; Efren Avalos, Avalos Organic farm owner and former ALBA participant.

For More Information:  

Pacific Institute

http://pacinst.org/

Oakland, CA

Center for Agro-ecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CAFS), UC Santa Cruz. 

http://casfs.ucsc.edu/

California Agricultural Water Stewardship Initiative

http://agwaterstewards.org/txp/index.php  
Occidental, CA

Dirty Girl Produce 

http://dirtygirlproduce.com

Watsonville, CA

 Fiscalini Farms
http://www.fiscalinifarms.com/
http://www.fiscalinicheese.com/

Agriculture and Land-based Training Association (ALBA)

http://www.albafarmers.org/

Salinas, CA

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We’ll hear excerpts from the movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of the toxic affects of hydraulic-fracking a natural gas drilling method that uses hundreds of chemicals.  While the BP oil spill has increased calls to use natural gas as a so-called ‘clean energy’ alternative, activists are sounding the alarm bell about this controversial technique.
 
Special Thanks to Josh Fox, the producer of “Gasland”, and to Alton Byrd and Rachel Zurer for helping to produce this show.
 
Featuring:
 
Walter Hang, Toxics Targeting President; Josh Fox, “Gasland” movie producer; Weston Wilson, EPA employee not speaking on behalf of the EPA; Oil and Gas industry Executives; Pat Farnelli, Norma Fiorintino, Ron & Jean Carter, Dimock, PA residents; Dr. Theo Colborn, Endocrine Disruption Exchange President; Paul Light, Grand Valley Citizen’s Alliance President; Rachel Waldholz, High Country News Correspondent; Maurice Hinchey, New York State Representative, 22nd District; Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper Program Director;
 
Executive Producer: Tena Rubio
Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer
Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
 
For More Information:
 
Gasland: the Movie
http://gaslandthemovie.com/
 
Toxics Targeting
http://www.toxicstargeting.com/
 
Catskill Mountainkeeper
http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/
 
Battlement Concerned Citizens-a Committee of Grand Valley Citizens Alliance
http://www.wccongress.org/gvca.htm
 
Debunking Gasland
http://www.energyindepth.org/2010/06/debunking-gasland/

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