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Today’s show ALEC and the 1% Censoring Journalists and Occupying Student Debt. We’ll hear about the Against Cuts Conference happening tomorrow at Berkeley City College, student organizer Dielly Diaz joins us from UC Berkeley; Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy returns to the program to discuss the American Legislative Exchange Council- and ALEC’s recent censoring of the press in AZ; at the bottom of the hour we hear from Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio with the labor calendar; and we conclude the show we talk to attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute Ellen Brown about a Jubilee on Student Loan Debt, which is one of the many concerns of the Occupy Wall St. movement.

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Occupy Wall St. West Actions and Occupying Public Education

Guests:

Abby Martin, live from Occupy SF west coast protests

Carl Patrick, Occupy Santa Rosa Organizer

Steve Zeltzer, Work Week Radio

Kathleen Carrol, attorney, whistleblower on corruption at CA Teacher Credentialing

And more live coverage of the SF events...

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Today’s program we address Ten Years of Guantánamo and the Evisceration of the Rule of Law. Joining us will be investigative journalist Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files; Almerindo Ojeda, professor of linguistics and director of the Guantánamo Testimonials Project at University of California, Davis; and Pardiss Kebriaei, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, an organization that has led the way in seeking accountability for torture and arbitrary detention at Guantánamo.  We will also have live music in studio from one of the most notable political folk musicians of our time, the one and only David Rovics.

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Welcome to the Project Censored Show on the Morning Mix today Peter Phillips, Andy Roth, and Abby Martin from Media Roots will address the questions of Strategy for Occupy: Can a non-violent social movement be effective and remain non-violent in the face of a repressive empire? We will be joined by Dr. Cynthia Boaz political Science professor in nonviolent struggles at Sonoma State University and  rapper and activist Boots Riley with the Occupy Oakland Movement, with in studio music by singer songwriter Vic Sadot. We will also hear from Steve Seltzer with Work Week Radio Labor News and round out the hour with Ted Rall author of the Anti-American Manifesto and Michael Nagler former Chairperson of UC Berkeley’s peace and Conflict Studies Program.

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The Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio; today’s show we speak with Code Pink’s Dana Balicki and Media Roots’ Abby Martin about the Occupy Movement for 2012; we hear from Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio; for the last part of this week's program we are joined by independent journalist and analyst Stephen Lendman, author of How Wall St. Fleeces America, on how we might stop the march to war on Iran.

Occupying Free Speech Radio- Our One-Year Anniversary Show covering major news stories that were und

Occupying Free Speech Radio- Our One-Year Anniversary Show covering major news stories that were under reported or ignored by the corporate media. Today’s show we celebrate one year on the air at KPFA Pacifica Free Speech Radio as part of the Morning Mix; we’ll hear an interview with Prof. Robert McChesney, a leading scholar and activist for media reform, on the state of the media in the US; we’ll hear from Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio; film producer Cindy Piester joins us to talk about the new film “On the Dark Side in Al Doura, A Soldier in the Shadows” that Addresses Soldier’s War Crimes Allegations & Iraq Atrocity Photos and we’ll also speak with the father of US Army Ranger John Needham (Michael Needham) to tell his son’s story; and we round out our one year anniversary show on Pacifica with a few words from interim GM at KPFA Andrew Phillips and a short conversation with Media Roots founder and PC contributor Abby Martin.

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Today’s show we are Occupy Education Reform as we speak to Peter Matthews about getting Prop 1522- the Tax Oil to Fund Education- on the ballot in CA for fall of 2012; Sociologist and former Project Censored associate director Dr. Andrew Roth joins in our discussion about education “deform” and it’s impact on colleges; we’ll hear from Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio on Butchering Education and Systemic Corruption; and we round out the show in conversation with a leading critic of education reform Diane Ravitch, former assistant secretary of education under George H.W. Bush, who is currently a researcher at NYU, on why No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top simply are not working and what we should be doing to revitalize our educational system.

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Today’s program we will be speaking with Michael Levitin, the webmaster for http://occupiedmedia.us- How the Occupied Movement Uses the Internet to build the message, and later in the program we will hear from Genocide expert Angel Ryono regarding the Cambodian Genocide and the many similarities to Iraq and Afghanistan. We’ll also hear from Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio with the local labor calendar.

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Occupying the Global Empire

Today’s show we look at Occupying Global Empire.  We speak with co-founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Carl Dix, who will be in dialogue with Cornel West this evening at UC Berkeley discussing "What Future for our Youth?” and Steve Zelzter joins us from Work Week Radio; we round out the show today with Prof. Anthony Hall about Occupy movements in Canada, the ongoing nuclear crisis with Fukushima, and big media complicity in support of the 1%.

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Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview Sarah Van Gelder of Yes Magazine about the new book she helped compile "This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement" and we hear from Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio; Huff and Phillips also talk to Kalle Lasn of Adbusters Magazine about Occupy, the Future of Capitalism, and Buy Nothing Day, now in its 20th year.