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Denis Halliday

Former UN Assistant to Secretary General

Previously Aired On: April 24, 2007 - Archive Not Currently Available


Denis Halliday has spent most of his long career with the United Nations in economic development and humanitarian assistance-related posts both in New York and overseas, primarily in South-East Asia. Following a year in Kenya as a Quaker volunteer 1962-63, Halliday joinedthe United Nations in 1964 serving in Tehran, Iran as a junior professional officer in the forerunner of UNDP - the United Nations Technical Assistance Board and Special Fund.

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April 24th, 2007 --Previous Guests--, Denis Halliday | no comments

Mike Farrell

Actor, Writer, Activist

Previously Aired On: April 10, 2007 - Listen to this Show!

Mike Farrell made his professional debut in a 1961 stage production of Rain, then spent several years playing bits in such films as Captain Newman MD (1963), The Graduate (1967) and Targets (1968). His first real break came in 1968, when he was cast as architect Scott Banning on the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives. Two years later, he put his John Hancock on a contract with Universal, playing supporting roles in such prime-times series as The Interns (1969) and Man and the City (1971).

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US Rep. Harold Dutton

Previously Aired On: April 4, 2007 - Listen to this Show!


Representative Harold Dutton of Houston chairs the House juvenile justice committee.

Representative Dutton recently supported the efforts to free Shaquanda Cotton, a Paris Texas African American teen who was sentenced to up to 7 years in a juvenile prison for pushing a teacher’s aid. Shaquanda Cotton was convicted of a felony count of shoving the teacher’s aide — who’s classified as a public servant — at Paris High School in 2005.

Representative Dutton called Cotton’s case “the poster child of everything wrong with the criminal justice system.” He will speak about this case, and the other problems facing the juvenile justice system and his attempts to resolve them.

April 4th, 2007 --Previous Guests--, Harold Dutton | no comments

Prentice Reid

Iraq Veterans Against the War

Previously Aired On: April 3, 2007 - Listen to this Show!


Prentice Reid was in the Army Infantry for one tour in Iraq, between March of 2002 and 2003. He was honorably discharged in May of 2005.

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April 3rd, 2007 --Previous Guests--, Prentice Reid | no comments