Project Censored

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." 

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."