Virtually Speaking

Publisher Margo Baldwin of Chelsea Green joins us to discuss her authors,and the power of sustainability and environmentalism as a publishing theme.

Guest host CS Kendrick chats with sociologist Allison Pugh about her book: "Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture."

Stirling Newberry joins us to talk about torches and pitchforks, aka the economy and public policy.

Journalist and author, David Harris, covers stories throughout the United States as well as in Central and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East for the last thirty-five years. He is a former contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and at Rolling Stone and the author of ten nonfiction books and one novel. His work has covered a range of subjects as various as professional football, the timber industry, Presidential elections, the Kurdish diaspora, and marijuana smugglers. During the Vietnam War, Harris, Stanford University´s Student Body President, was a leader in the antiwar movement and was imprisoned for refusing orders to report for military service

Katie is a national director of Living Liberally and a founder of and comedian in Laughing Liberally, a political comedy collective. She has performed comedy throughout the country at venues including Town Hall, Symphony Space The Culture Project in New York, the D.C. Comedy Festival, Jimmy Tingles in Boston and at all three NetRoots Nations (the Convention formerly known as Yearly Kos). Katie has performed with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Hightower.

Discussing begins with Mike's new book, The Progressive Revolution. Mike Lux is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies. Since starting the company, Mike has launched a number of important projects, including American Family Voices, an issue advocacy group working on pocketbook issues for American families; and the Progressive Donor Network, which works to coordinate a network of individual donors, issue advocacy groups, and top flight political consultants and strategists.

Dan writes the White House Watch column for WashingtonPost.com, and is the deputy editor of the Nieman Watchdog Project. The starting point for our discussion will reflect this essay, of how the press will cover Obama, with special emphasis on people perceived, perhaps incorrectly, as partisan because of their criticism of the Bush administration.

Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch will be by to discuss his new book, Tear Down this Myth

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, in the department that she chaired from 1988 through 2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on analysis of the scientific, social, cultural, and economic factors that influence the development, implementation, and acceptance of federal dietary guidance policies. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (University of California Press, 2002) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (University of California Press, 2003), and is co-editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2004). Her latest book, What to Eat (North Point Press, a Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux), has just been released in paperback

aka clammyc, DK diarist extraordaire, Adam joins guest host CS Kendrick to analyze the current political climate.

FireDogLake Editor and finance expert will talk about the mess we're in, and how Obama can try to get us out of it.

James Fallows, wide-ranging writer for both The Atlantic and in the books he has published.

Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at NYU and Karen Tumulty of TIME Magazine will discuss the election coverage, and the future of journalism.

DailyKos front page contributor DemFromCT joins us to talk about polling in this election cycle.

Dave will be on hand to discuss his book on Green opportunities for entrepeneurs.