• 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination. Thom played clips from his speeches.
• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• "Anything goes" Friday.
• Guest: Lamar Waldron, Thom's "Ultimate Sacrifice" co-author. He names a person who had King killed.
• Forthcoming book: Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, Lamar Waldron, and Thom includes who killed Martin Luther King.
• Words.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

Hour One: Topic: Should we boycott the Olympic Games as a show of solidarity for the people of Tibet and Darfur…is it wrong to support the Chinese by attending the Olympics? Or, is it wrong to punish the athletes who have spent their careers preparing for these games in order to make a political point?

Hour Two: Guest: Dr. Patrick Michaels www.Cato.org Topic: Thom challenges Patrick on - What came out of the recent "2008 International Conference on Climate Change? (aka the skeptics' convention)
Guest: Paul Hannam www.brightgreentalent.com Topic: Green collar jobs

Hour Three: Guest: Paul Waldman www.paulwaldman.blogspot.com   Topic: New book "Free Ride: John McCain and the Media.
Guest: Tim Newman www.ilrf.org  Topic: Forced labor and child labor in the agricultural sector

Thom substitutes for Randi Rhodes...

Hour One: Guest: David Sirota www.davidsirota.com Topic: The Clinton Firewall
Hour Two: Guest: Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org   Topic: Thom and Carrie debate on what is causing the "middle Class Squeeze."
Hour Three:Guest: Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com  Topic: It's official, Alabama is the Soviet Union

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" REVIEW OF THE MONTH
by Thom Hartmann

"The 11th Hour" -- Available from BuzzFlash (A movie written, narrated, and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, also starting Stephen Hawking, Mikhail Gorbachev, Thom Hartmann, and others...)

Watch the trailer: The 11th Hour Trailer, click here )

The Middle Class Squeeze - Do you have a story to tell about how the economy is affecting you?

Please use the Web form at http://www.sanders.senate.gov/qa/meetingqs.cfm to submit your story to Bernie.

If you would like to give testimony about the impact of the economy on you on the Web form at http://www.sanders.senate.gov/qa/meetingqs.cfm. He'll post many of the stories he hear from you on the Web page www.sanders.senate.gov in the coming days, and will be reading them on the floor of the US Senate. Thank you!