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Project Censored - 11/11/14

This week's Project Censored show focuses on the growing Palestine solidarity movement 
on U.S. campuses. Nora Barrows Friedman discusses her new book "In Our Power," 
based on interviews with dozens of student activists around the U.S. And Ph.D. student Kumars Salehi 
speaks about his experiences in the Students-for-Justice-in-Palestine chapters at NYU and UC Berkeley.

Project Censored - 11/04/14

On this weeks Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, Peter Phillips in studio with PC Affiliate Professor Nolan Higdon look at the continuing crisis in Ukraine and Syria. They start with a regional update by author and geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya with Global Research in Montreal. Then they look at the imperialism of the US/NATO involvement in Syria and Ukraine with Sara Flounders, author and co-director of the International Action Center in New York.  And they end the show with St Mary’s College economics Professor Jack Rasmus addressing neo-liberal economics in the Ukraine region and the US/EU sanctions on Russia.

Project Censored - 10/28/14

On this weeks Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips honor the October 22nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, they look at Law Enforcement Related Deaths and the increasing concerns in the US about police violence. Joining them is October 22nd activist and legal advocate Karen Saari, who has researched the number of newspaper reported police shootings in the US. Diana Grant, professor of Criminal Justice at Sonoma State University, joins the program to address the question- why does the US government fail to accurately report law enforcement related deaths? In the second half of the program they speak with Censored 2015 editor professor Andy Roth, and  liberal studies professor Francisco Vazquez who is serving on the Sonoma County Community and Local Law Enforcement Task Force. They close with a brief update from filmmaker Dylan Avery on his new project Black and Blue that looks at the problem of police brutality. 

Project Censored - 10/21/14

This episode takes a look at the history of the Free Thought movement in the U-S, from its roots in the time of independence 
to its resurgence during the post-Civil War years. The struggle between freethinkers and conservative religious forces played out 
on several fronts, including efforts to restrict what publications could be sent through the U-S mail. Among the historical figures 
examined in the program are the Free Thought publisher D.M. Bennett and the 'anti-vice crusader' and postal inspector Anthony Comstock, 
who lobbied for laws banning the mailing of 'obscene' materials. Bennett was sentenced to prison for mailing a pamphlet called "Cupid's Yokes."

The guests are Roderick Bradford, author and filmmaker, and Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry magazine. 
The program includes excerpts from the documentary film, "American Freethought," produced by Bradford and Flynn.

Project Censored - 10/14/14

On the Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, Friday at 1 P.M. Pacific time-- co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips take a look at the top censored stories of the past year and discuss the latest book from Project Censored, Censored 2015: Inspiring We the People. They interview Dr. Andy Roth professor at Pomona College and co-editor of Censored 2015. They’re joined also by two of the book’s contributors, Prof. Dorothy Kidd will discuss how “We Can Live without Gold, but we Can’t Live without Water: Contesting Big Mining in the Americas; and Zara Maria Zimbardo talks about her chapter, “It’s Easier to Imagine the Zombie Apocalypse than to Imagine the End of Capitalism.” We’ll also do a run down of some of the past year’s most censored stories and the news that didn’t make the news.

Project Censored - Retired CIA Analyst Ray McGovern - 10/07/14

The Project Censored Show presents a speech given by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern. After his retirement from the CIA, McGovern founded "Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity," and has criticized US spy agencies for their lawbreaking, and subservience to the agendas of politicians. He spoke in Santa Rosa, California on September 24, 2014, at an event co-sponsored by Project Censored. His topic was Human Rights and the National Security State

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."