Civil Liberties, Surveillance
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NYPD Edit Arrest Video?
The New York Times reported earlier this week that in some 400 cases[90%] of charges against RNC protesters were dropped because video recordings emerged showing that the arrested had not committed a crime during RNC protests in NYC. Hosts, Dalia Hashad and Heidi Boghosian interview
Guest – Eileen Clancy from Eyewitness Video. Clancy describes how she discovered that two versions of the same police tape, one used as evidence in the case of Alexander Dunlop was edited. Edited out were sequences of events removed that portrayed Dunlop behaving peacefully.
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Academic Freedom
Guest – Brenda Coughlin, PhD Candidate at Columbia School of Sociology.
Guest- Gil Anidjar – Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy.
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Flag Burning Amendment
Hosts discuss issues surrounding the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would outlawed burning the Flag of the United States.
Truth to Power
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Church & State – Encroaching Theocracy
Faith Based Initiatives – Little to no money directly given to those organizations that are not Christian.
Guest : Reverend Paul Chapman talks with hosts about how Christian faith-based organizations are receiving most of the allocated federal funds.
Law and Disorder hosts talk with Lenny Brenner about a book he recently edited, Jefferson and Madison On Separation of Church and State: Writings On Religion and Secularism published by Barricade Books and Susan Jacoby also joins us. Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who have stood at the forefront of the battle for every kind of reform from the framing of a Constitution based on human rights rather than divine authority to the feminist and civil liberties movements of the 20th century.
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Intelligent Design Lawsuit
Biology teachers required to teach Intel Design as a scientific theory in Pennsylvannia.
Guest : Vic Walczak, Legal Director of the ACLU in Pennsylvania
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Protesting Military Recruiters
Guest: Carol Lang, a City College secretary who protested with students against military recruiters at a campus job fair. She attended the protest, was taken from her office, arrested and held for thirty hours. She was charged with assault.
Extraordinary Rendition, Guantanamo, Torture
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Anniversary Rachel Corrie/More Renditions/Torture
Hosts Michael Ratner and Dalia Hashad discuss the anniversary of activist Rachel Corrie’s death in Gaza and the lawsuit filed against Caterpillar bulldozer.
Guest : Maria LaHood Lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights
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Guantanamo Prisoners Transferred
Guest: Barbara Olshansky – Lead attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights
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More Renditions
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali who was believed to be kept in Saudi Arabia and tortured for information. He was brought back to the US by threatening the president through material aid to terrorism, the only witness is dead. Once he is brought back to the US, how is he treated?
Guest :Brad Adams from Human Rights Watch will join the show to discuss how two U.S. Pakistani citizens were picked up in Pakistan and are missing to this day.
Surveillance, Truth to Power
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National Security/Tort Reform/Free Trade
Tort Reform Examined
An indepth with Steve Peskin and Shoshanna Bookson with the New York Trial Lawyers Association. Peskin and Bookson discuss how corporate welfare triumphs as insurance claims and are being capped.
“The National Security State”
A term described by Guest Michael Avery, former president of the National Lawyer’s Guild, Avery describes the many ways a citizen’s privacy is easily breached on several fronts in the United States.
U.S. Global Economic Entanglements
Guest Barbara Dudley discusses the Dark Secrets of Free Trade.
Civil Liberties, Torture
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Torture Memos/Rockefeller Drug Laws/Inauguration Lockdown
Law and Disorder hosts examine the torture memos made public by the Center for Constitutional Rights and an ACLU lawsuit.
Attorney Bill Goodman an attorney with Goodman and Moore, gives an update in the cases representing RNC protesters who were detained in horrible conditions.
Randy Credico, director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund For Racial Justice explains recent minor adjustments New York state has made to the harsh Rockefeller drug laws.
Attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard with the Partnership for Civil Justice and gives a sense of the military presence expected during the Bush/Cheney presidential inauguration.
