Actor, Writer, Activist
Previously Aired On: January 30, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Chevy Chase was the first Saturday Night Live alumnus to crossover from the show’s edgy comedy-skit format to mainstream success. After a year and a half as a writer and actor on SNL (1975-6), Chase left for Hollywood, where he created memorably offbeat characters in Foul Play (1978) and Caddy Shack (1980). Chase’s comedic trademarks - the ice-cold deadpan delivery and smart-alecky wit - would make his hit movies mandatory viewing for both fans of comedy and aspiring comics. As host of the SNL Weekend Update news show, Chase became famous for his tagline: Good evening, I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not.
In 1983, National Lampoon’s Vacation introduced the world to the road-tripping Griswold family and its bumbling patriarch, Clark W., which would become one of Chase’s trademark roles. And then in 1985, Chase starred in Fletch, about the adventures of wise-cracking, fast-talking and impossibly nervy investigative reporter Irwin M. Fletcher. The script was perfectly suited to Chase’s delivery and naturally confident, smarter-than-thou persona. Vacation would spawn numerous sequels and Fletch one. Around this period, Chase also co-starred in Spies Like Us (1985) with Dan Akroyd, Three Amigos (1986) with Steve Martin and Martin Short, and the fish-out-of-water comedy Funny Farm (1988).
1992’s Memoirs of an Invisible Man saw Chase venture outside of comedy for a turn at this supernatural drama helmed by John Carpenter. For the rest of the 1990s, Chase worked mostly in family-oriented films. He appeared in the kid-friendly Cops and Robbersons (1994) and Man of the House (1995). He also had supporting roles in Snow Day (2000) and Orange County (2002).
January 30th, 2007
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Previously Aired On: January 23, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Ehren Watada (born 1978) is a First Lieutenant in the United States Army, a member of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team, who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq for the Iraq War, saying that he believed the war to be illegal and that it would make him party to war crimes. The first commissioned officer in the U.S. armed forces to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq, Watada will face a court-martial set to begin February 5, 2007.
Ehren K. Watada was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and his parents are Carolyn Ho, and father, Robert Watada. His father Robert who himself refused to serve in the Vietnam war, says, “We taught Ehren that he has to care for other human beings, other people on this planet, regardless of where they are. We didn’t teach him to go kill children, kill women in Iraq. he’s chosen the hard course, but it’s the right course and we’re very proud of him.” His mother Carolyn is anti-Iraq War activist, and has worked along with Cindy Sheehan.
Both of Ehren’s parents have given media interviews as well as his step mother, Rosa Sakanishi. Carol recently went to Washington, DC to speak on behalf of her son and Robert has just finished a nationwide tour raising funds and awareness on his son’s behalf.
Visit the Thank you Lt. Ehren Watada website!
January 23rd, 2007
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Previously Aired On: January 15, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Congressman John Conyers grew up in Detroit, and received both his B.A. and his J.D. from Wayne State University. He served as an assistant to Congressman John Dingell prior to his election to Congress. He has been reelected 20 times, never facing serious opposition. He is the second-longest serving current member of the House, as well as the second-longest serving member of either house of Congress in Michigan’s history. Only Dingell outranks him on both lists.
On August 4th, 2006, Conyers released the final draft of his report The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retributions and Cover-ups in the Iraq War, an edited collection of information intending to serve as evidence that the Bush Administration altered intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq.
The Constitution in Crisis examines much of the evidence presented by the Bush Administration prior to the invasion and questions the credibility of their sources of intelligence. Additionally, the document investigates the conditions which led to the torture scandal in Abu Ghraib as well as further evidence of torture having been committed, but not made known to the public. Finally, the document reports on a series of ’smear tactics’ purported to be used by the administration in dealing with its adversaries.
The document calls for the censure of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
January 15th, 2007
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Rap Artist
Previously Aired On: January 9, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Born in a military hospital in South America, Immortal Technique was brought to the United States in the early 80’s while a civil war was breaking out in his native Peru. Growing up on the streets of New York, the young man became enamored with Hip Hop culture, writing graffiti and starting to rhyme at an early age. Although he frequently cut school and ended up being arrested time and time again for his wild behavior, the kid still managed to finish high school and got accepted to a state university.
Compiling multiple assault charges in New York State and in other states eventually caught up to the uncompromisingly hardheaded actions of one Immortal Technique. He faced several charges for Aggravated Assault in the tri-state area. Realizing his inevitable incarceration, Technique began to prolifically write down his ideas about what he had lived and seen in the struggle back at home in relation to his visits back to his native land. He came to embrace his African roots that stemmed from his grandfather and understood the nature of racism and ignorance in its role in Latino culture, separating oppressed peoples and keeping them divided.
He decided to continue with what had been so successful, his hand to hand out the trunk hustle. In the post 9.11 climate, as the music industry crumbled, Immortal Technique built on the truth with a hardcore brand of street politics. Being featured in XXL, The Washington Post, and having been titled with the Hip Hop quotable in The Source (10/03) for his sophomore independent release Revolutionary Volume 2 was just the beginning. On Viper Records, where he is the Executive VP, he sold 29,000 copies of Revolutionary Volume 2 to date and has appeared on soundtracks for new movies including the new Mario Van Peebles film BAADASSSSS. Immortal Technique has also worked with Mumia Abu Jamal and AWOL magazine. His single Industrial Revolution released in conjunction with Uncle Howie Records hit number 1 on CMJ and number 50 on the Billboard charts.
January 9th, 2007
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Author, Futurist, Lawyer
Previously Aired On: January 2, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Alfred Lambremont Webre, J.D., M.Ed. (Canada) is an author, futurist, lawyer (member of the District of Columbia Bar), peace advocate, environmental activist, space activist and is known as the founding father of exopolitics. Webre is a former Fulbright Scholar, a graduate of Yale University, Yale Law School (Yale Law School National Scholar), and of the University of Texas Counseling Program. He has taught economics at Yale University (Economics Department) and Civil Liberties at the University of Texas (Government Department).
Sometimes referred to as Jimmy Carter’s ‘UFO Guru’, Webre was Director of a proposed 1977 Carter White House ‘off planet culture’ communication project as futurist at Stanford Research Institute. President Jimmy Carter reported his own 1969 UFO encounter, and made a 1976 election campaign promise to create more transparency with the ‘UFO’ issue. This initiative was ended in the fall of 1977 because of the political climate at the time.
Today, Webre is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), promoting the vision of banning space weapons and transforming the permanent war economy into a peaceful and cooperative space exploration society focused on studying life in the universe.
He is a founder of the “No Weapons in Space Campaign” (NOWIS), a Canadian coalition to prevent the weaponization of space and he coordinates the “Campaign for Cooperation in Space”. He is a co-architect of the Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty introduced to the U.S. Congress by Congressman Kucinich to ban space-based weapons.
Mr. Webre is a member of Lawyers Against War which has brought charges of war crimes against high officials of the USA in Germany. He also supports the 9-11 Independent Prosecutor Act which would seek to find accountability and justice from the Bush administration for what took place on 9-11.
His humanitarian interest in seeing this planet and its inhabitants surviving and living peacefully with others in this universe are summed up in his book Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law In the Universe.
PeaceinSpace.com | Exopolitics | PeaceinSpace.org | PeaceinSpace.net
January 2nd, 2007
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