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Daily Topics - Monday October 24th, 2011
Oct. 24, 2011 6:59 amBy shawnt56Hour One: Latest on Occupy movement...Harrassed & Sleepless in Seattle - Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle / More arrests in Chicago - Kelvin Ho, Occupy Chicago
Hour Two: Walmart rolls back employee health care - President Joseph Hansen, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
Why OWS Is The Next Republican Boogeyman
Oct. 23, 2011 7:42 pmBy louisehartmannThe Boogeyman is dead, and Santa is dying.
Daily Topics - Friday October 21st, 2011
Oct. 21, 2011 8:59 amBy shawnt56It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: From Wall Street to Exotic Animals...how the right has let us down - Ciff Schecter, Libertas LLC
Filibustered...It’s a dangerous, and heartless political game
Oct. 21, 2011 8:27 amBy louisehartmannFilibustered. Last night – Republicans proved they’d rather protect billionaires from a one-half of one percent tax increase rather than keep 400,000 teachers, firefighters, and cops on the job. Despite once again acquiring enough votes to pass a portion of President Obama’s American Jobs Act under normal procedure – the legislation fell short of receiving the 60 votes needed to overcome a unified Republican filibus
We’re in the Midst of a Global Lost Generation
Oct. 20, 2011 8:20 amBy louisehartmannYoung people have been hit hardest by Bush's banksters’ worldwide crash – with more than 75 million young people across the planet desperately looking for jobs. The number of unemployed people between the ages of 15 and 24 has increased by 4.6 million since the recession began in 2008. And the effects of this massive hit of joblessness among young people are on clear display in some of the most developed economies in the
Daily Topics - Thursday October 20th, 2011
Oct. 20, 2011 7:51 amBy shawnt56Check out Thom's appearance on Dylan Ratigan's show
Hour One: Yaz...what did "Big Pharma" forget to tell us? Attorney, Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Two: "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President" - Ron Suskind / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - Feeding the world while protecting the planet
No Republican debate is complete anymore without the crowd booing the downtrodden
Oct. 19, 2011 8:11 amBy louisehartmannRepublicans fought it out last night in a CNN hosted debate in Las Vegas. Before the debate – about 100 Occupy Las Vegas demonstrators surrounded the Sands Expo Center where the debate was being held to protest corporate corruption in our politics. But their message didn’t make it inside the debate – where all the candidates on stage battled each other to see who supports the 1% the most. It was a lot of the same –
Daily Topics - Wednesday October 19th, 2011
Oct. 19, 2011 7:50 amBy shawnt56Check out Thom's appearance on Dylan Ratigan's show
Hour One: Bernanke in Boston...Occupy Boston responds - Stephen Squibb, Occupy Boston / Plus, latest from Occupy Seattle - Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle
Hour Two: The latest GOP plan to "save" Social Security - Peter Ferrara, The Heartland Institute
Occupy the planet!
Oct. 17, 2011 10:47 amBy louisehartmannOccupy the planet! Over the weekend – the Occupy Wall Street movement swept across the world – as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Europe, South America, and Asia to push back against too much corporate power in government. In Rome – demonstrations turned violent – as police cars and a government building were torched causing over one million dollars in damage. Here in the United States – where
Daily Topics - Monday October 17th, 2011
Oct. 17, 2011 8:02 amBy shawnt56Hour One: Latest...Occupy Wall Street and Times Square - Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet / Plus, a report from Occupy Tacoma and Seattle - J.A. Myerson, Contributer-AlterNet
Hour Two: Occupy Chicago...175 arrested at Grants Park, Chicago - Joshua Kaunert, Occupy Chicago
Hour Two: U.S. troops...out of Iraq by December? Tom Hayden