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Project Censored - 09/30/14

The show looks at Affordable Housing and Coalitions for Building Safe and Healthy Communities in the San Francisco Bay area. We address how reactionary forces including the Tea Party  and Nimby groups seek to block equitable housing and livable communities . Our guests include Wendi Kallins with the Coalition for a Livable Marin, Samuel  Tepperman-Gelfant a Senior Staff Attorney with Public Advocates which supports equitable development and affordable housing, and Chris McManus community housing advocate and researcher in Fairfax California. Famously liberal Marin County, California should welcome affordable housing and non-polluting transportation, but does it? Three housing activists say Tea Party members from outside the county have intervened loudly to obstruct planning processes, and have also recruited allies among local opponents of growth. 

Project Censored - 09/23/14

The focus of the program is Banned Books Week (Sept 21 - 27, www.bannedbooksweek.org);
first is a discussion about the importance of graphic novels as literature, and their susceptibility 
to being banned. Then a recent case study in book banning from Delaware, where high school 
administrators tried to keep a lesbian-themed novel off an honors reading list.
The program concludes with a conversation with retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who is on 
a California speaking tour. 

Project Censored - 09/16/14

Hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips take on issues of free speech and censorship, banned books, and much more. Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) discusses his new book Freedom From Speech concerning free speech on college campuses; Mark Crispin Miller talks about the latest re releases coming out in his Forbidden Bookshelf series; Graeme MacQueen discusses his new book The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for Domestic Conspiracy; and the show closes with an update from Michael Levitin on the People's Climate March events on 9/21 around the US.  

Project Censored - 09/05/14

With the anniversary of the September 11 attacks at hand, Peter and Mickey speak with 
Ken Jenkins, organizers of the annual 911 Film Festival in Oakland, California, about questions 
that still linger 13 years after the attacks. Then Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee 
talks about the scope and implications of the ongoing federal surveillance activities against Americans, 
and how to resist them.The program concludes with Robbie Martin of Media Roots, speaking about 
his new documentary "American Anthrax." 

Project Censored - 09/02/14

The program begins with a conversation with Kevin Gosztola, who writes for Firedoglake.com; 

Gosztola recounts his experiences in Ferguson, Missouri, in the days after the killing of black teen Michael Brown. 
Then Sunsara Taylor of Stoppatriarchy.org speaks from Texas about the continuing closures there of clinics offering abortions; 
Dennis Trainor of Acronym TV asks why even left-leaning media outlets dropped his report about Taylor and the Abortion Rights 
Freedom Ride. Finally, UK Guardian writer Nafeez Ahmed warns that at least two U.S. universities are assisting the Pentagon in 
creating data-mining systems to spy on political dissidents. 

Project Censored - 08/26/14

The Project Censored show hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips look at the police state and suppression of information in the US. They check in with civil rights activist Carl Dix from Ferguson, MO and Peter Phillips and Diana Grant tie in their recent study on police violence and militarization soon to be released in Censored 2015.  Next they talk with Michael McCray, of the Acorn 8, co-organizer of the recent Whistleblower Summit in Washington, D.C.,; and finish with a clip from Strike Debt on eminent domain in Richmond, CA.

Project Censored - 08/12/14

Mickey Huff host this week's Project Censored Show which  presents a speech given by Peter Phillips at the Fellowship of Reconciliation's annual conference on July 4, 2014. Peter spoke on "the Transnational Corporate Class, U-S NATO Empire, and Corporate Media Propaganda."  Phillips addresses the concentration of global capital and identifies the financial core of 161 individuals who control $24 trillion dollars of capital investment. The US-NATO military Empire is in service to the Transnational Corporate Class, Phillips claims, and adds that "wars are started to protect global capital." 

Project Censored - 08/05/14

Peter Phillips hosts with Project Censored Affiliate Faculty member Nolan Higdon. Mickey Huff had just returned from the National Whistle Blower Conference in Washington DC and joins by phone later in the show.  The  shows acknowledges the importance of protest songs in the struggle for human rights and social justice. David Rovics joins us for the airing of activist music from his most recent CDs Falasteen Habibti ("Palestine, My Love") and All the News that is Fit to Sing. During the second half of the show they get an update from Mickey Huff on the content of the new Censored 2015 yearbook to be released next month and the national Whistle blowers Conference.  At the end of the hour they play short segments from the award winning film Project Censored the movie.

Project Censored - 50 Years After the War on Poverty - 07/29/14

This week's Project Censored show opens with economic issues, and wraps up with an interview with a VA whistleblower.  Fifty years have passed since LBJ announced the War On Poverty. The first guest, Keith Kilty, describes the how poverty was reduced in the 1960s and 1970s, before the programs were cut back and the poverty rate rose again. Then economist Doug Orr of San Francisco City College looks at the stock market – how relevant are the market's gyrations to the real economy? Orr also explains “frontrunning,” a tactic used by market insiders to enrich themselves. The program concludes with a conversation about whistleblowing in the federal government, with Oliver Mitchell, a whistleblower in the Veterans Administration, and Marcel Reid, organizer of a whistleblowers' summit (www.whistleblowersummit.com) in Washington, DC.

Project Censored - 07/22/14

Restrictions on Public Information, Dangers of Crude Oil Fires, and We are Not Broke—Public Banking

 

 

For the July 18^th Project Censored Program on Pacifica co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips look at news that didn’t make the news, They  begin in discussion with president of the Society of Professional Journalists Dave Cuillier, who talks about the petition sent to President Obama last week, endorsed by over 40 media organizations, that calls for the administration to stop their excessive control of public information. Additionally, Diane Bailey of the Natural Resources Defense Council joins in to talk about how the increasing shipments of crude oil by rail in the US will inevitably result in massive accidents including explosions/fires  in our town and cities.  They end the show with Ken Walden of What the World Could Be, who reminds us our communities are not broke, and how public funds now invested in Wall Street can revitalize our economy through Public Banking.