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Care of Poor People, Inc. (www.coppinc.com) is holding the 2014 Spring Break for the Homeless at the Scottish Rite Temple near Linwood and Paseo in Kansas City, MO on April 19. Author, former homeless cab driver and COPP Inc. founder Richard Tripp stopped by to talk about the upcoming event on the March 20 show.

While this is a local Kansas City event, Richard Tripp’s story and his approach to helping the homeless have a more universal appeal. You might want to read his autobiography, Please Underestimate Me,, available via a link at www.coppinc.com, or at Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Please-Underestimate-Me-Blood-Richard/dp/0595442102

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A February 13, 2014 Comcast press release announced “Time Warner Cable to Merge with Comcast Corporation to Create a World-Class Technology and Media Company” and went on to say “Strategic Combination Will Accelerate Delivery of Comcast’s Technologically Advanced Products and Services to Time Warner Cable’s Customers,” and “Transaction Creates Multiple Pro-Consumer and Pro-Competitive Benefits.” Outside the Comcast and Time Warner corporate offices, there were different characterizations of what would result if the biggest cable company merged with the second biggest.

On the March 6, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, Matt Wood, Policy Director with Free Press got on the phone to talk about some of the issues related to this proposed merger.

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Attorney and journalist Dave Saldana is the producer and director of the new Center for Media and Democracy film Keystone PipeLIES Exposed, about the Keystone KXL pipeline, and he talks about it in the first half of the February 27, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody.

In the second half of the show, University of Nebraska Economics Professor Hank van den Berg returns to talk about the mostly secret proposed so-called “free trade” agreement known as TPP.

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On Tell Somebodyon February 20, 2014, the main topic was McCutcheon v FEC, the Supreme Court case described as worse than Citizens United in terms of possible impact on money in elections. Public Citizen Senior Organizer Aquene Freechild talked about same-day events being planned all over the country to respond to a decision being handed down in the McCutcheon case, which could be as early as Monday, February 24. After that, we heard audio clips from the oral arguments in the case heard In October, 2013.

But first, news from the Oxford Union in England, hosting an event just the night before the broadcast honoring Chelsea Manning, 2014 recipient of the Sam Adams award for Integrity in Intelligence. Tell Somebodyplayed audio from 2013 Sam Adams awardee Edward Snowden, who appeared at the Oxford Union via video stream from Moscow. Also, word of a lawsuit filed against the U.S. State Department on behalf of Ray McGovern, and Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant cleanup Community Advisory Panel news.

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Recently Todd O’Boyle of Common Cause brought my attention to a Kansas Senate bill, authored by a cable industry lobbyist, which would outlaw community broadband in Kansas. Subsequently I came across an article online written by O’Boyle’s colleague Christopher Mitchell who wrote that the bill in question, if passed, would create some of the most draconian limits on building networks that we have seen in any state.

On Tell Somebody on February 13, 2014, Todd O’Boyle and Christopher Mitchell came on the air to talk about community broadband and industry efforts in Kansas and across the country to outlaw it.

Todd O’Boyle is Common Cause’s Program Director for Media and Democracy. He joined Common Cause in September 2012 and is responsible for research, advocacy, and strategy for media reform.

Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative with the New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

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On the January 2, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Dr. Ed Weisbart on single payer healthcare. Dr. Weisbart of St. Louis was in Kansas City in December for several speaking engagements including a presentation at the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri Kansas City on the theme of “Health Care Reform: What’s Here? What’s Coming? What’s Missing?”

Dr. Ed Weisbart is a family physician who practiced at Rush Medical Center in Chicago for 20 years before moving to St. Louis in 2003 to become chief medical officer at Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 Company. After retiring from that position in 2010, he began organizing the St. Louis chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, which he currently chairs. He volunteers in a variety of safety-net clinics in the St. Louis area, and is also assistant professor of clinical medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. He has had several articles published in national medical journals regarding the health care needs of the uninsured, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has printed several of his opinion pieces about single-payer health care. He has also testified multiple times before the Missouri Legislature on health care reform. He resides in Creve Coeur, Mo.

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On the December 26, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, in the midst of conflicting Federal Court decisions about NSA practices and some very interesting mainstream media print and broadcast pieces, Ray McGovern returned to the show to talk about Edward Snowden, Michael Hayden, Bobby Ray Inman, the Constitution, the NSA, and more as only he can.

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On the December 19, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, returned to talk about his new book about Nelson Mandela.

“Danny Schechter has produced and directed six documentary films about Nelson Mandela and was the only American documentary filmmaker Mandela trusted to be part of his team in the United States and in South Aftrica after his release and his election as South Africa’s president.”

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On the December 12, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, Professor Jim White, Director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and a professor of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies talked about climate change. He chaired the committee within the National Academy of Sciences that released a report last week entitled Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change. The report brought to the fore the sudden changes that can occur within our biosphere in a matter of mere years or decades–a red alert for all of us sharing Planet Earth which emphasizes the need for an early warning system to be implemented.

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On the main segment of the December 5, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines division, talked about a recent Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) revelation. A November 13, 2013 Public Citizen Press Release announced that a complete chapter of secret TPP text revealing that the Obama administration is demanding terms that would limit Internet freedom and access to lifesaving medicines throughout the Asia-Pacific region was released by WikiLeaks. Maybarduk’s division analyzed the leaked TPP documents for WikiLeaks.

Listen to a discussion with Maybarduk after segments with Gina Chiala of Stand Up KC , on a fast food worker strike, and voices from Richard Tripp’s Care of Poor People Survival 13 event for the homeless on November 30.

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