Project Censored

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.

Project Censored - 07/15/14

Mickey Huff is joined by special guest host Ken Walden of What the World Could Be to discuss public banking for the 99%. Usual co-host Peter Phillips joins the program from Chile, where he is for National Journalism Day. Peter is traveling there for the week giving talks. They’ll discuss the state of international media and censorship in Chile and beyond. Later in the show independent journalist Kristina Borjesson updates us on the latest attempts by the NTSB to silence her work on TWA Flight 800 investigation; and we finish the show discussing solutions journalism. The show airs live Friday, 1 P.M. Pacific time on KPFA  94.1 FM (http://kpfa.org/) in the San Francisco Bay Area and rebroadcasts around the country.

Project Censored - 4th of July Special show on American Free Thought - 07/08/14

For the July 4 Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio,  Mickey Huff and  Peter Phillips pre-recorded a special program in honor of the 4th of July and American Independence. They examine the history of American Free Thought and the importance of Freedom of Inquiry to American Society.  Their guests include: Roderick Bradford producer of the four-hour documentary American Freethought, covering the history of censorship and secularism in the US. Joining them also is Tom Flynn executive director of the Council of Secular Humanism, and editor of Free Inquiry magazine. 

Project Censored - 9/11, Forbidden Bookshelf, Homeland Security - 07/01/14

Mickey Huff with Peter Phillips discuss the importance of challenging dominant establishment narratives in the US-  Hidden History, the Forbidden Bookshelf, and the war on journalism continues at the Dept. of Homeland Security. We begin the conversation with activist and author Jon Gold about the importance of revisiting the history and politics behind the 9/11 Commission and other related issues the corporate and even some independent media won’t discuss; NYU Professor Mark Crispin Miller joins us to discuss his new series of publications, Forbidden Bookshelf, which makes available groundbreaking, but out of print books (from I.F. Stone, Dan Moldea, and others)…Miller will tell us why these works are still very relevant today. We round out the hour with independent journalist Dave Lindorff who tells us about how the Dept. of Homeland Security labeled his collective, ThisCan’tBeHappening, a national security threat.

Project Censored - National Fight for $15 & Living Wage Movement - 06/24/14

Peter Phillips with guest host Marty Bennett Co-Chair, North Bay Jobs with Justice, examine the significance of the $15 an hour city-wide minimum wage recently approved by the City of Seattle and we will discuss the minimum wage and living wage campaigns across the SF Bay Area that are part of the national "Fight for $15" campaign. Our guests include: Jahmese Myres, Policy Associate and Organizer, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, Gordon Mar is Executive Director of SF Jobs with Justice, Derecka Mehrens, Executive Director, Working Partnerships USA (Santa Clara County) and Paul K. Sonn, General Counsel & Program Director National Employment Law Project

Project Censored - Reclaiming Father's Day - 06/17/14

On the Reclaiming Father’s Day show Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview author and professor Tomas Moniz, editor of Rad Dad and founder of Rad Dad zine, and professor Craig Elliot, also assistant vice president of Samuel Merritt University, a frequent contributor to Rad Dad who writes about fathers and feminism; at the bottom of the hour they are joined by Ariel Gore, author, activist and founder of Hip Mama magazine. They round out the program  with Kai Newkirk founder and organizer of 99-rise about their 400 mile walk for democracy in the heat of California’s Central Valley.