Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Truth to Power
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Updates: Host Discussion on the case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild on the alleged illegal spying by the NSA. Along with other citizens and noncitizens in this country, attorneys at CCR have good reason to believe their private conversations may have also been monitored by the NSA.
The text of Al Gore’s Speech
Congressman Conyers Report
Transit Workers Strike NYC
Recently, negotiations between the TWU and the MTA have ended without a contract. Transit workers however, continue to work without a contract. Law and Disorder hosts follow up on the details of the transit strike and the Taylor Law.
Guest – Richard Levy – Labor Attorney for Union Local 1199
Guest – Marty Goodman- Transit Worker and Executive Dir. of TWU Board
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Student Hurricane Network – A new student network working to address legal issues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Student Hurricane Network is a national association of law students and administrators dedicated to providing long-term assistance to communities in the aftermath of hurricane destruction.
Guest – Vanessa Spinazola
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We play excerpts of speeches from the Bush War Crimes Commission that were held this past weekend. We hear from Harry Belafonte, Michael Ratner, Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter.
Extraordinary Rendition, Guantanamo, Torture, Truth to Power
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Letters from Young Activists
In letters addressed to their parents, to past generations, to each other, to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves, the authors articulate their vision for the world as they work towards racial, economic, gender, environmental and global justice. As the editors write in their introduction: “From globalization to the war on terrorism and beyond, our generation is impelled to action in the midst of a rapidly changing and unique political moment. Our challenge, and yours, is to live our lives in a way that does not make a mockery of our values.
Guest – Chesa Boudin – a Rhodes Scholar, is a student at Yale Law School and author of Gringo: A Coming-of-Age in Latin America (Scribner)
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Recent Ruling In Jose Padilla’s Case
Guest – Attorney Andy Patel, Padilla’s lawyer.
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Anatomy of a Dirty Bomb
“According to Dr. Thomas Cochran, in order to shield a 130 gram cobalt 60 source — the size needed to simulate Sandia’s worst case Manhattan scenario — to make it safe for human handling would require a one-and-a-half to two metric ton lead shield. Not exactly carry-on luggage.”….
Guest – Dr. Thomas Cochran, a physicist at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Abu Ali Case – Reverse Rendition
– Follow up – Exchange student who traveled to Saudi Arabia – was held and tortured at the request of the U.S. He confessed to having a plan to single handedly free all the GTMO detainees and shoot President Bush on the sidewalk while being tortured.
Guest – Attorney Khurrum Wahid
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Witness To Torture
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice at a press conference from her European tour that focused on US torture and abuse. Rice’s visit drew protests across Europe. The story deepened last week with reports of a revealed US Defense Department memo that proves an explicit policy of rendition for torture.
Last week a group of 25 US Christians called Witness Against Torture illegally entered Cuba and embarked on a 4-5 day hike intent on arriving to the US Naval Base at Guant?namo to visit the prisoners are on the doorstep of the base.
We go now to hear excerpts from a Witness Against Torture press conference held last week. Among the speakers are the Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Gita Guiterezz and CCR president and co-host Michael Ratner.
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Surveillance, Truth to Power
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Targeting Muslims
The Council on American_Islamic Relations (CAIR), the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hold simultaneous news conferences in New York City and Buffalo, N.Y., to announce action against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the practice of targeting American citizens participating in religious conferences outside the United States.
Guest – Udi Ofer
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Luis Posada
National Lawyers Guild Calls for Immediate Extradition of Luis Posada to Venezuela
Guests – Jane Franklin and Ian Thompson
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New York City Law Suit Settlement?
More than 100 people arrested during the Republican National Convention have agreed to settle a lawsuit over improper detention.
Guests- Liz Fink, Eileen Clancy and Gideon Oliver
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Supermax Prisons
Across the country, more and more super maximum security prisons are being built to, in theory, house the worst of the worst criminals, yet the conditions in these facilities amount to cruel and unusual punishment, and the procedures for determining who is sent to a supermax facility are, according to rights advocates, haphazard and arbitrary and deprive prisoners of their rights to due process.
Guest – Jules Lobel
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.
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, Guantanamo, Truth to Power
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Law & Disorder looks at voter oppression in Florida, specifically Broward County as hosts interview attorney Marsha Johnson, who volunteered as an “election protection” poll watcher during the November 2nd election. Her stories are harrowing. Also, hosts Michael Ratner and Dalia interview David Rose on his new book Guant?namo: America’s War on Human Rights, revealing information very few have heard.
