Project Censored

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview Martin Sanchez, former San Francisco Venezuelan Consul General on the legacy of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. At the bottom of the hour they talk with Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry about his recent trip to Indonesia and the global food crisis. And they end the show with Lisa Ling from Iraq Veterans Against the War as we approach the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips interview Tukufu Zuberi professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Brian Murphy a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Niagara University on contemporary issues misunderstandings regarding Africa today.  They also host Kate Raphael of Women's Magazine who talks with members of the women's vocal ensemble Kitka, who are holding a special international women's day concert.   They  end the show with an interview with Inder Grewal an sociology major student activist from SF City College who fighting accreditation issues and a threaten closure of the campus.

Today we spend the hour with Kenn Burrows and special guests on the Gandhi-King Season for Non-Violence (Jan. 30 - April 4): a 64-day educational and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to transform, and empower our lives.  We also welcome to the show Mitch Hall, a children’s rights advocate, yoga teacher and peace scholar, who will address Why Gun Control is Not Enough — Underlying Causes & Remedies for Direct Violence. During the 2^nd half of the show we will interviewRenee Soule’ who teachs Non-Violent Communications at San Quentin State Prison; and we speak with two San Franciso State University students, Nic Rogoff and Vonique Strickland.