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Law and Disorder is a weekly independent civil liberties radio program airing on more than 150 stations and on Apple podcast. Law and Disorder provides timely legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and practices of torture exercised by the US government and private corporations.
Law and Disorder April, 2005
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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.
Law and Disorder March, 2005
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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.
Law and Disorder February, 2005
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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.