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 2nd 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 PNH

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)NE

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 2nd 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.

Today’s program- Exposing the War on Whistleblowers- Supporting the Freedom of Information. Join us as we pull back the curtain on government censors as they continue to try to shoot the messengers of the free press— in the first segment we’ll speak with bestselling muckraker Greg Palast and we talk to Christian Stork of WhoWhatWhy.com; at the bottom of the hour we’re joined by Professor of Law Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law Technology about the Aaron Swartz case and beyond…But first the KPFA news headlines. Please stay with us.

Today’s program-  Building a People’s News Media in the 21st Century.  We’ll talk about corporate media hegemony, top down managed news propaganda, and grassroots resistance with Prof. Robert Hackett of Simon Fraser University and Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance for most of the show today.  Near the end of the hour we’ll check in with Sunsara Taylor who is on the streets in Washington, D.C., participating in events marking the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and talk to her about media framing and propaganda of the patriarchy 40 years on

Higher Education and Academic Freedom Under Attack.  We look at the corporate attack on pubic education via the Trojan Horse of the so-called “Reform” Movement and we examine the state academic freedom in the US as we speak with a professor who has challenged the status quo on official narratives in recent history.  We'll hear from Prof. Adam Bessie on GERM Warfare; Kenn Burrows from San Francisco State University talks about new paths in education. At the bottom of the hour we’ll turn our focus to academic freedom and how the corporate media frame and shape public perception on issues from education to controversial current events.  We’ll speak with communications professor Dr. James Tracy about his recent writings on the Newtown shootings and the role of a free press; and attorney Robert Shibley of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, on broader issues addressing academic freedom and the First Amendment.

Today we address the 11thanniversary of Guantánamo—an anniversary of "tragedy, pain, and torment" in the words of one former detainee. We'll hear from Deepa Kumar, author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire; Pardiss Kebriaei (Keb-re-aye), attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which continues to seek accountability for torture and arbitrary detention at Guantánamo; and Toby Blomé of Code Pink, which is co-organizing a Guantanamo vigil on the Golden Gate Bridge this Sunday. In today's concluding segment, Sarah Van Gelder of YES! Magazine joins us to discuss nine stories that will change your world in 2013

Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips talk about US Cuba relations, societial differences between US and Cuba, and the Cuban Five with Ricardo Alarcon President of the National Assembly in Cuba, Martin Garbus US attorney for the Cuban Five, and Gloria La Riva coordinator of the national committee to free the Cuban Five. Ricardo Alarcón has been Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) for nearly 30 years and has served since 1993 as President of the National Assembly of People’s Power the legislative parliament of theRepublic of Cuba. The parliament has over 600 members elected from single-member electoral districts for a term of five years. Gloria La Riva is a labor, community and socialist activist. She is coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and has worked for decades to end U.S. hostility toward Cuba. Martin Garbus (www.martingarbus.co) is one of the country’s leading trial lawyers. In early June Garbus and Supreme Court spe