Father of Nick Berg
Previously Aired On: May 31, 2006 - Archive Not Currently Availible
Michael Berg was born in Philadelphia on March 3, 1945, into a struggling family with a small business. His father, Harry, flew airplanes in World War II. His mother, Rose, was a person of peace from the inside out. In 1967, Berg earned a BA in English literature and a teaching certificate at Bucknell University.
In March 2004, in Iraq, the American military and the FBI illegally detained Berg’s son Nick, a civilian on a mission of peace, for thirteen days. This detention thrust Nick into an invigorated war, as the Iraqis were energized by the revelation that Americans had committed atrocities in Abu Ghraib. On May 7, 2004, Nick was murdered. A video of his assassination was posted to the murderers’ website. The Berg family, in the midst of tragedy, found itself in the international spotlight. A year after his son’s death, Berg moved from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington, Delaware, where he registered as a member of the Green Party.
May 31st, 2006
--Previous Guests--, Michael Berg |
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Leave My Child Alone
Previously Aired On: May 17, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
Some women trace their activism directly to their desire to leave the best possible world for their children. Megan has 3 kids of her own, started down the path of activism during the presidential primary when, as a Howard Dean supporter, she noticed how short-term everything is in politics. The trend ran counter to her own habit of contemplating the future her children would inherit.
Her solution was an organization: Mainstreat Moms Opposed to Bush. Now known as Mainstreat Moms Operation Blue (MMOB), the organization still displays the same activism and opposition to the Bush administration along with Megan’s conviction that motherhood is a “first identity” that unites women before political identity. The goal is to mobilize unregistered, likely progressive, single mothers.
Megan Matson is the prime mover along with Felicity Crush in the campaign against military recruiters on campus known as Leave My Child Alone (LMCA). MMOB teamed up with Working Assets and ACORN to fight the No Child Left Behind Act by attacking what Matson calls its weak link, the clause that requires public schools to provide military recruiters with student lists in exchange for federal funding. Matson and Crush see this tack as a way to galvanize parents who would otherwise be too intimidated by the vast scope of No Child Left Behind to protest against it.
In a style similar to an election campaign, LMCA operates opt-out parties, urging parents to remove their children from recruitment lists in a way that they might with unwanted telemarketers. These parties are pitched as a way to help people while having a good time while spreading the message: Keep your child’s contact information safe and away from military recruiters by submitting an opt-out letter in writing to your school districts superintendent.
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May 17th, 2006
--Previous Guests--, Megan Matson |
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Psychoanalyst, Author
Previously Aired On: May 10, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
Justin Frank M.D. is an expert in the field of psychoanalysis. A clinician with more than thirty year’s experience, Dr. Frank has also been a former columnist for Salon magazine and is a frequent writer on topics as diverse as politics, film, and theater. He is the co-director of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in New York, a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Dr. Frank used the principles of applied psychoanalysis to assemble a comprehensive psychological profile of President George W. Bush in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, (Regan Books).
Dr. Frank did his psychiatric residency at Harvard Medical School and was chief resident at the Cambridge Hospital. Dr. Frank was also awarded the DuPont-Warren Fellowship by Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Frank lives in Washington D.C. where he teaches and practices psychoanalysis.
May 10th, 2006
--Previous Guests--, Justin Frank |
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Professor, Historian, Writer, Activist
Previously Aired On: May 5, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
Howard Zinn is one of the country’s most beloved and respected historians, the author of numerous books and plays, and a passionate activist for radical change. Zinn has placed himself at the center of the most important historical moments of the last thirty years, during which he has been admired as a writer and an important political and moral voice.
At the age of 18, Zinn was a shipyard worker; at 21 an Air Force bombardier. Both experiences helped shape a radical impulse, an opposition to war, and a passion for history. After getting his Ph.D. from Columbia University in history, he taught at Spelman College, where he worked with young Civil Rights activists including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. Zinn led anti-war protests, went to Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan and testified in his friend, Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers trial. Zinn’s politically engaged life brought him into many arenas - imprisonment for civil disobedience, fights for open debate in universities, and activist work from the Vietnam era to the present.
Zinn is the author of numerous books and plays including the classic, A People’s History of the United States and the newly-released companion volume Voices of a People’s History. Other Zinn titles include Terrorism and War, Declarations of Independence, Artists in Times of War, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, The Zinn Reader, Emma and Marx in Soho. Zinn is also the subject of a new documentary film - You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train - that is already garnering critical and public acclaim.
May 5th, 2006
--Previous Guests--, Howard Zinn |
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911 In Plane Site
Previously Aired On: May 4, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
Producers/writers Joyce Riley and Dave Von Kleist share their experiences and knowledge behind the making of this documentary which question the official story of the attacks on September 11, 2001. Dave and Joyce, are a husband/wife team who host their own radio show, The Power Hour, on the Genesis Radio Network.
Ms. Riley is a graduate of the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She was host of her own radio talk show NurseTalk Radio-The Truth in Health Care, and has guested on over 1500 radio and television shows, including Art Bell, Chuck Harder and Michael Reagan.
Ms. Riley served as a Captain in the United States Air Force and flew on C-130 missions in support of Operation Desert Storm. She now serves as spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association who’s purpose is to provide education and information for the Gulf War veterans and their families and to seek treatment for the illnesses that thousands of Gulf War veterans now suffer from. Joyce is quite aware of the situation in Iraq and the myriad number of health problems - both physical and mental and emotional - that our troops face there and when they return to civilian life.
Dave Von Kleist has spent his career in the broadcast industry as a professional TV/radio announcer and as a professional vocalist for commercials. He was staff announcer at various radio stations and hosted The Dave Riddell Show, a three-hour afternoon drive time talk show at WATR AM-1320, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Dave is an accomplished musician, vocalist, songwriter and performer of over thirty years. Other accomplishments are writing and directing the comedy television show Spotlight Tonight. Voted Best Show and Best Directed show in the Laurel Cable Awards, 1984.
May 4th, 2006
--Previous Guests--, Dave Von Kleist, Joyce Riley |
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