Housing/Homelessness

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Netherlands Squat Ban in Effect

Airs at: Wed, 11/03/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
As of October first, 2010, Squatting is now illegal in the Netherlands. As an answer to the new eviction policy roughly a thousand squatters and sympathisers demonstrated on the first of October in Amsterdam. Out of the demo a house got squatted and the group remained for ... Read more

Do we live in a Democracy, Plutocracy, Fascist State, or something totally different?

Airs at: Tue, 11/16/2010 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris As the populist wave that swept President Obama into office gives way to Business as Usual, Americans are waking up to the realities of life in a Plutocracy. Both Frank Rich in the New York Times and Chris Hedges on Alternet reflect on... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 11/11/10 - Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
#cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } A celebration of civil rights: Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story Two months after the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision legally ending school segregation, the county en... Read more

Between the Covers on 10/28/10

Airs at: Thu, 10/28/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
The guest is award winning writer and activist Rebecca Solnit, the author of numerous books. Her most recent book is "A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster." She has made ten trips to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. Rebecca ... Read more

Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know"

Airs at: Thu, 10/21/2010 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
For yourself , for everyone you love, even for everyone you will love, you need housing and land rights. Fight. Get a lawyer if you need one. Home "owners" should copy these URLs and bookmark them:  http://4closurefraud.org/ http://chattahbox.com/us/2010/10/16/foreclosur... Read more

Well Read Red: Mortgage Morass

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker reads from Paul Krugman's October 14th Op-Ed in the New York Times, "The Mortgage Morass," which reflects on a wave of potentially illegal home-seizures and how this takes us back to "the days when noblemen felt free to take whatever they wanted, knowing that... Read more

Jordan Flaherty discusses "Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six"

Airs at: Thu, 10/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell speaks with activist Jordan Flaherty about his book Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six. The book has an introduction by Democracy Now host Amy Goodman and a preface by civil rights attorney Tracie Washington.  Floodlin... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 18th

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Today's Old Mole - hosted by Tom Becker - features conversations about alternative electoral systems emerging in the US; the relationship between domestic violence and economic hardship; voter-owned elections; and horror stories of defrauded home-owners. Below are link... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 10-14-2010

Airs at: Thu, 10/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Full View #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } Ballot measures and bucks: a look at the scramble for tax dollars New emergency response systems for the fire bureau. Funding for the historical society. Additional revenue to cover mand... Read more

The Underground History of American Education

    Prologue The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumb... Read more