Project Censored

Project Censored - 06/11/13

Mickey Huff in studio with Peter Phillips analyze the state of the free press and civil liberties in the US.  They kick things off with Sue Wilson, founder of the Media Action Center, about the private censorship of public airwaves and the FCC’s possible ruling deciding whether or not right wing radio is “bonafide” news; then legendary free press proponent and documentary filmmaker John Pilger joins in from London for commentary on the state of the free press as well as his latest film project; and they close out the show with Beau Hodai, author of the new study published by the Center for Media and Democracy, “Dissent or Terror: how the nation's counter terrorism apparatus, in partnership with corporate America, turned on Occupy Wall Street.”

Project Censored - 05/21/13

Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips visit the issue of the new poverty in the United States as they play excerpts from the movie Ain’t I A Person directed by Dr. Keith Kilty. From the film we will hear the voices of people trapped in poverty by expanding structural unemployment, continuing racism, and a deep seated 30 year attack on the social safety net in the US. We’ll also hear live in studio from sociology professor Sheila Katz on increases in urban poverty and the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty.

Project Censored - Untold History - 05/14/13

Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips revisit untold histories of the United States as they play excerpts from the Untold History event held at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, CA in February with Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, and Daniel Ellsberg.  They also interview Laurel Krause just back from the 43^rd anniversary of the May 4^th Kent State Shootings where Oliver Stone was keynote speaker. They discuss the ongoing cover-up of that fateful event by federal, state, and university officials. Additionally, they hold a general discussion on the importance of untold history to an active democracy.

Project Censored - Shadows of Liberty - 05/07/13

For the May 3 Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips talk to film producer Jean-Philippe Tremblay regarding his new film Shadows of Liberty. Jean-Philippe Tremblay is London-based filmmaker originally from Quebec, who directed the film Shadows of Liberty, which had its U.S. premiere  at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver.  The show includes segments of the film that offers a critique of corporate media’s practices of censorship and bias.

Project Censored - Poverty in America - 04/30/13

Mickey Huff  in studio with  Project Censored affiliate professor Nolan Higdon talks to Dr. Keith Kilty, professor eneritus at Ohio State College of Social Work, regarding poverty in America fifty years after the War on Poverty; then a  Project Censored Validated Independent News update concerning new attacks on academic freedom in TX at the bottom of the hour; and  return to the conversation on poverty with a focus on Northern CA with Ginny Browne and Marty Bennett; and Sarah van Gelder of YES!Magazine joins us for a looks at co-ops and gives us economic solutions to round out the show.

Project Censored - 04/23/13

Project Censored Associate Director  Andy Roth Ph.D.  discusses the emerging evidence with health risks from cell phone and wireless radiation with Dr. Devra Davis, and electronics engineer Lloyd Morgan. During the 2^nd half of the program Roth talks to Dr. Keith Kilty, professor eneritus at  Ohio State College of Social Work, who has put a human face on poverty in his eye-opening documentary, Ain’t I A Person. Roth also interviews Carl Patrick and Ruth Bird activists with the Sonoma County Solidarity Network who has been working with long term residents in Hotel Petaluma who are being forced out by a new Marin County landlord.

Project Censored - 04/16/13

Today on the program we look at why people in the US continue to pay more for health care that any other industrialized county. Annually tens of thousands die from lack of care and Obama is now proposing cuts in Medicare. We first interview Dr. David Himmelstein is professor in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. During the second half of the show we will talk to Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician from Baltimore who served as congressional fellow for PNHP

Project Censored - 04/09/13

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips  interview Northern California journalists John Jensen and Elizabeth Larson who recently won a law suit against a Lake Country sheriff after he attempted to manipulate and censor their news reports about his activities. Near the bottom of the hour we speak with David Cobb of Move to Amend with an update on how big media censor challenges to corproate personhood; and we finish the hour speaking with Acacia O’Connor of the National Coalition Against Censorship about a recent case of book banning in Chicago Schools.

Project Censored - 04/02/13

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips  interview Northern California journalists John Jensen and Elizabeth Larson who recently won a law suit against a Lake Country sheriff after he attempted to manipulate and censor their news reports about his activities. Near the bottom of the hour we speak with David Cobb of Move to Amend with an update on how big media censor challenges to corproate personhood; and we finish the hour speaking with Acacia O’Connor of the National Coalition Against Censorship about a recent case of book banning in Chicago Schools.

Project Censored - Iraq Frequences: 10 Years - 03/26/13

Project Censored presents special program produced by Nora Barrows-Friedman, Iraqi Frequences:  10 Years.  This radio program is part of a wider initiative to create a resource kit for community organizers, activists, and all people affected by the occupation of Iraq to forge out responses and disseminate information as a means of making sure that this is not just another anniversary that passes us by.  For much more information and more incredible features on arts, culture and politics, check out ShakomakoNET: http://shakomako.net/ Today's show includes the voices of:

Dahr Jamail, journalist and author of “Beyond the Green Zone Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq” and “The Will to Resist: Soldiers who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan”

Dr. Sabah Alnasseri, political science professor at York U

Liisa Schofield, activist and anti-poverty organizer

Ali Issa, activist and organizer with War Resisters’ League and journalist with Jadaliyya

Sundus Abdul Hadi, multimedia artist

Rijin Sahakian, artist and co-founder of Sada, a non-profit project supporting new and emerging arts practices through education initiatives in Iraq and public programs internationally

Ahmed Habib, writer, journalist, and part of the editorial team at shakomako(dot)NET