"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
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Just added to the radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
December 15, 2005 truncated 27-minute mini-marathon semi-special Much of this hour was taken up with begging and a rebroadcast of excerpts from an August interview with David Roediger (not included). Fresh content was mainly an interview with Leslie Harris, co-editor of Slavery in New York, which is included. Bonus audio: classic WBAI clips from Julius Lester and Samori Marksman. For the full Roediger interview, click here. Contribute to WBAI here.
December 8, 2005 Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on how women are not opting out of employment * Jonathan Tasini on his primary challenge to Sen. Hillary Clinton
December 1, 2005 Anatol Lieven on why decadent America must renounce its empire * Heather Rogers, author of Gone Tomorrow, on garbage and capitalism
November 17, 2005 Historian Bethany Moreton, contributor to Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism, on the role of Ozark culture in the emergence of Wal-Mart (and The Nation's amazing switch on chain stores over the last 70 years) * Bruce Lawrence, editor of Messages to the World, a collection of Osama bin Laden's writings, on the ogre's thinking and prose style
November 10, 2005 Sarah Stillman of Manifesta, a feminist magazine published at Yale, on feminism among the young * Sam Gindin, long-time Canadian Auto Workers economic advisor, on the crises at GM and Delphi
November 3, 2005 Ashaki Binta & Raymond Sanders of United Electrical Workers local 150 on the ban on collective bargaining for North Carolina public sector workers * Leo Panitch on the state of the American empire
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George Galloway on Iraq, imperialism, and the colonial mind * Michael Eric Dyson on black class tensions * David Roediger the whitening of "new immigrants" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Beverly Wright on New Orleans, the Delta, and the geographies of race and toxicity * Jagdish Bhatwati on globalization * Barbara Ehrenreich on middle class horrors * Bill Fletcher on war and peace * Slavoj Zizek on war, imperialism, and fantasy * Naomi Klein on Argentina and the global justice movement * Susie Bright on sex and politics * Matt Taibbi on covering the 2004 campaign, and the dismal state of American politics and media * Richard Gott on Hugo Chavez * Anatol Lieven on Iraq, Chechnya, US nationalism * Cynthia Enloe on masculinity in the Bush administration (and oil) * Joel Kovel, editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, on the psychology and politics of Israel and Zionism * Laura Carlsen on the Zapatistas * Carlos Mejia, deserter from Iraq, on war, imperialism, dissent * Laura Flanders on Bushwomen * Gary Indiana on Arnie * Steve Fraser on the cultural/political history of Wall Street * Jennifer Washburn on the corporate university * $pread magazine staffers on sex work * Norman Kelley on the crisis in black politics * Joseph Stiglitz on the IMF and the Wall St-Treasury axis * Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin, authors of Citizen Girl and The Nanny Diaries, on gender, work, and the satiric novel * Jennifer Gordon on suburban sweatshops * Lisa Jervis on feminism & pop culture * Joel Schalit on anti-Semitism * Devah Pager on prison, race, and the job market * Robert Fatton on Haiti * Elizabeth Warren on bankruptcy * Chip Berlet on conspiracism * Gary Younge on a foreign journalist's view of the U.S. * Simon Head on Wal-Mart * Ursula Huws on work and why capitalism has avoided crisis * Michael Albert on participatory economics (parecon) * Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability * Sara Roy on the Palestinian economy * Michael Hardt on Empire (several times)
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