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List
of 2002 Shows
December
26, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of the American media's
influence and propaganda and the role they play in the root causes of anti-Americanism.
Guests include two nationally recognized experts: John Stauber, author
and founder of "PR Watch," the only organization in the world devoted to
investigating corporate and governmental propaganda (www.prwatch.org);
and Dr. Nancy Snow of Cal State Fullerton, author of "Selling America's
Culture to the World" (www.snowmachine.com).
December 19,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the mass arrests this
week of Iranian nationals in this country who attempted to comply with
a Homeland Security Act requirement that men for various Muslim countries,
16-years old, or older, re-register with the INS. Over 7,000 people demonstrated
yesterday at the Westwood Federal Building to protest the arrests and detentions.
Jim's guests include: Hossein Hey Jazi, Program Director of KIRN, 670 AM--the
station that promoted the protest action; Sherri Khorran, an Iranian paralegal
working with Iranian immigrants; Hamid Khan, Executive Director of the
South Asian Network; Sarah Rath, one of the women conducting a fast for
peace at the Federal Building; and Scott Scheffer, an organizer with International
A.N.S.W.E.R./L.A. (www.answerla.org)
to discuss up-coming peace actions.
December 12,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the life of Harry Hay,
the father of the gay rights movement, who died in October at the age of
90. The discussion will track the developments in the gay rights movement
over the past 50 years and look at up-coming court challenges to remaining
anti-gay laws. Guests include Jenny Pizer, Legal Director of the LAMBDA
Legal Defense Fund; Stuart Timmons, a journalist who wrote a biography
on Harry Hay; and Preston Wood, a political activist who, like Hay, is
both a gay man and a socialist. For more ino check the LAMBDA web site
(www.lambdalegal.org).
December 5,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" looks at the long and brutal war in Guatemala,
the U.S. government's role in that war and the lessons to be learned from
it as we confront two big issues of the day: globalization and the war
on terrorism. Jim Lafferty's guests include Daniel Wilkinson, author of
"Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in
Guatemala. For more information on Guatemala, click
here to go to Human Rights Watch.
November 28,
2002 - No Show
November 21,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion with investigative journalist
Brendan Koerner, discussing how corporate America is gearing up for the
biggest government bonanza since the cold war as Washington prepares to
spend tens of billions of dollars on homeland security, despite the fact
that little of the expenditures will result in a safer nation.
November 14,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" address the issue of the "red-baiting" of the
new movement against a war with Iraq, including the red-baiting of the
organizers of the huge October 26th protests in Washington, D.C. and San
Francisco. Jim Lafferty's guests include Frank Wilkinson, founder of the
Committee to Abolish HUAC, and Mara Verhaven-Hilliard, the attorney for
the group attacked and a member of its steering committee.
November 7,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of anti-war protests.
Guests include Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director of Physcians for Social
Responsiblity Los Angeles (www.psrla.org)
October 31,
2002 - KPFK Fund Drive
October 24,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show," taking place during the KPFK membership drive,
will feature guests on three topics: (1) a conversation with Carol Sobel,
president of the NLG/LA Chapter on police behavior at this Tuesday's October
22nd protest against police brutality; (2) Richard Becker, of International
A.N.S.W.E.R. ("Act Now to Stop War and End Racism") will discuss plans
for this Saturday's (October 26th) protests in San Francisco and Washington,
D.C.--expected to be the biggest anti-war protests since Vietnam; and (3)
a talk with Jeff Mackler, chief organizer of The National Conference
on Civil Liberties, Democratic Rights and the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,
taking place in San Francisco on November 15-16, 2002.feature
October 17,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features two important and timely interviews.
First, Jim Lafferty will interview Attorney Lynne Stewart, personally indicted
by Attorney General John Ashcroft for allegedly aiding terrorists while
representing her client, Sheik Omar Rahman. The government acknowledges
that part of the alleged evidence against her was obtained by secretly
taping her confidential conversations with her client in jail. The second
interview will be with Prof. Marwan Dalal, from the Legal Center for Arab
Minority Rights in Israel, concerning his charges that Israeli Arabs are
living as second class citizens in what amounts to an Apartheid state.
October 3, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of several topics: Andrew
Wetzler of the National Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org)
discusses the environmental policies of the Bush Administration; Anne Richardson,
a partner in the law firm of Hadsell & Stormer discusses a federal
court ruling holding that UNOCAl can be held liable for complicity in human
rights abuses committed by the Burmese military in the course of building
its natural gas pipeline; and Chaeyanne Gierra and Preston Wood discuss
up-coming anti-war in Iraq protests., including a discussion of the upcoming
"Not in Our Name Demonstration" at the Westwood Federal Building on Sunday,
October 6, 2002 (www.notinourname.net).
September 26,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of Santa Monica's effort
to ban
outdoor feeding
programs. Guests include Bob Erlenbusch, executive director of the
Los Angeles
Coaltion to
End Hunger and Homelessness (www.lacehh.org),
Moira LaMountain of HOPE
(Helping Other
People Eat) and Robert Myers, an officer of the National Lawyers Guild/LA
Chapter and
former City Attorney of Santa Monica.
September 19,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features an hour-long interview with activist
and author
Eric Mann,
of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, home of the Bus Riders Union. The
discussion
will focus on Mr. Mann's lastest book, "Dispatches from Durban," consisting
of his
firsthand commentaries
on the world conference against racism and his current thinking on building
a progressive movement in the post-9/11 period.
September 12,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the just completed United
Nations Summit
on Sustainable Development in South Africa, with guests Adalila Zelada,
NLG Staff Attorney with the Guild's Project on Human, Economic and Environmental
Defense ("HEED")
and Radical
Women organizer Yolanda Alaniz; and, a discussion of the looming war in
Iraq with
Scott Scheffer,
an organizer with A.N.S.W.E. R. ("Act Now to Stop War and End Racism").
September 5,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a round-up on protests and vigils being
held in conjunction with the anniversary of the Trade Center attack of
September 11th. Guests include Kelly Campbell, one of the founders of Peaceful
Tomorrows, a group of family members who lost loved ones in the Trade Center
attack and who want it known that their sorrow is not a call for vengence.
Other guests include Robert Greenwald, producer of such movies as "Steal
This Movie," the story of Abbie Hoffman.
August 29, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features an interview, live from Iraq, with attorney
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, co-founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice.
She and others have called for massive protests in the U.S. on October
26th to "stop the war in Iraq before it begins."
August 22- No
Show (fund drive)
August 15, 2002,
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the up-coming UN-sponsored
World Summit on Sustainable Development, to take place in Johannesburg,
South Africa. Guests include: Antonia Juhasz, Project Director of the International
Forum on Globalization (www.ifg.org);
Irv Sarnoff, Director of the Friends of the United Nations; Mike Feinstein,
Mayor of Santa Monica; Adalila Zelada, Staff Attorney at HEED (the Guild's
project on human, economic and environmental defense); and Prof. Robert
Benson, Director of HEED (www.heed.net).
August 8, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of the more significant
opinions from the recent term of the U.S. Supreme Court. The guests are:
Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, of USC Law School, and First Amendment attorney
Carol Sobel, president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Guild.
August 1, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the far-reaching and
unprecedented "court packing" plan of the Bush Administration and the role
of "political ideology" in the nominating and confirming process. The guests
are: Leslie Proll, Assistant Counsel, NAACP-LDF, in Washington, D.C. and
Attorney Susan Lerner, founder and chair of the national organization,
"Committee for Judicial Independence."
July 25, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" takes up the question of how well the mainstream
media
has performed
since September 11th. Jim's guests are: Greg Palast, author of The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy and an investigative reporter for the BBC and the
Guardian and
Observer newspapers
in London (website: www.gregpalast.com); Norman Solomon, from FAIR,
author of The
Habits of the Highly Deceptive Media (www.fair.org,
click on "media beat"); and
Roger Trilling,
for 25 years an investigative journalist and co-producer of numerous television
documentaries
in France and Europe.
July 11, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" featured a "Town Hall of the Air" in which listerners
were invited to express their opinions on police misconduct issues.
June 27, July
4, 2002 - No Show
June 20, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features features interviews with NLG attorney
Dennis Cunningham, lead attorney in the victorious Earth First!/Judi Bari
civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police; and, an interview
with NLG attorney Anne Richardson, one of the attorneys in the landmark
court case allowing plaintiffs to sue the UNOCAL corporation for its human
rights
violations
in Burma.
June 13, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features discussions on three related topics:
this week's revelations in the San Francisco Chronicle of the role of the
FBI and Ronald Reagan in the firing
of US Chancellor
Kerr in the 60s and the efforts at harassing faculty and students in the
UC system and spying on campus political groups; the "Not in Our Name Campaign,"
a new anti-war and anti-repression campaign; and a conversation with Ann
Fagan Ginger about the government's decision to hold Jose Padilla, in connection
with the "dirt bomb" scare, as an "enemy combatant" indefinitely
without the filing of charges or the right to a trial.
June 6, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features interviews with two people who've recently
returned from two separate fact-finding delegations to the occupied Palestinian
territories. Attorny Nancy Hormashay, was a member of the Lawyers Guild
delegation to Jenine and elsewhere; and Richard Becker was a member of
a delegation organized by the group known as A.N.S.W.E.R. ("Act Now to
Stop War and End Racism"). The show also features an interview with noted
civil liberties attorney, and Chapter president, Carol Sobel, on the new
plan to re-organize the FBI.
May 30, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion the move to have the valley
secede from the rest of the City. Guests include those representing the
L.A. County Federation of Labor, the Mexican American Political Association,
and the anti-sucession group, "One L.A."
May 22, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the role of art in politics.
Guests are: Carol Wells, the Executive Director of the Center for the Study
of Political Graphics; Gilbert Lujuan, better known in the art world as
"Magu"; Cindy Suriyani, a professional artist and associate in the law
firm of Gilbert & Sackman; and Kristin Guzman, an artist and one of
the members of the art collective known as "Art in Action." Its also a
fund drive show and all Guild members are urged to call KPFK (818/985-5735)
and pledge their support in the name of the Lawyers Guild Show.
May 16, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the world's dwindling
supply of usable water and the efforts of global corporations to privatize
water and sell it at a profit. Guests are Jamie Dunn, the Water Campaigner
for the Council of Canadians (www.canadians.org);
Jane Kelly, the Director of the California office of Public Citizen (www.citizen.org/cmep)
and Sara Amir, an environmental engineer with the State of California and
former Green Party candidate for governor. There will be a conference on
this topic, with the radio guests and others, on Saturday, May 18th, from
10:30 to 4:00, at the Sepulveda United Methodist Church, 15435 Rayen St.,
North Hills, located between the 405 freeway and Sepulveda Blvd., one block
south of Nordhoff St.
May 9, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" will cover three topics: Richard Becker of the
coalition, "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism" (A.N.S.W.E.R.) will discuss
recent developments in the Israeli/Palestinian war (www.internationalanswer.org);
Danielle Barbenau, the So. California Political Director for the California
Peace Action group, will discuss plans for a state-wide, grass-roots, mobililation
for peace and justice in California on June 8th (www.californiapeaceaction.org);
and Liz Sunwoo of KIWA and Victor Narro of CHIRLA, will discuss the surprisingly
large turn-out at this year's May 1st immigrants' rights march in L.A.
and the growing role of labor in the immigrants' rights movement.
May 2, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" was a rebroadcast of the April 25, 2002 show.
April 25, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" was recorded on April 18, 2002 at the Death Penalty
Focus Annual Dinner in Beverly Hills. Guests included Studs Terkel,
Mike Farrell, Abby Mann, Rev. James Lawson, Stephen Rhode, Carol Sobel,
and Tracy Rice and explored the growing opposition to the death penalty.
April 18,
2002 - No Show
April 11, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features three prominent Palestinians, discussing
the current
Israeli war against the Palestinian people. Jim's guests are: Kamal Abu-Shamsieh,
the National
Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council; Dr. Leila
Al Marayati,
head of the
Women's Council of the Muslim Public Affairs Council; and Hussam Ayloush,
the Executive
Director of CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations) (www.cair-net.org).
April 4, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features four members of the progressive Jewish
community, sharing their views on the current Israeli war against the Palestinian
people. Guests include: Rabbi Haim Beliack, with the Progressive
Jewish Alliance; Marcia Freedman, a former member of the Israeli Knesset;
and Yael Korin and Rick Chertoff, two members of Women In Black in Los
Angeles (www.wib-la.org).
March 28, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" featured a discussion of the Korea Truth Commission's
efforts to reveal the truth of the U.S. military's civilian massacres during
the Korean War, expose
the crimes
against peace and humanity committed by the U.S. government since the war,
and mobilize against the Bush administration's attempt to derail Korean
reunification with its Cold War
propaganda
and threats against north Korea. Guests included Rev. Kiyul Chung
(www.koreatruthcommission.org)
and Brian Becker (www.iacenter.org).
March 21, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" featured a "Town Hall of the Air" in which listerners
were invited to express their opinions on the insanity defense and whether
it should be available to criminal defendants.
March 14, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features reports on three current immigrant labor
struggles: the Florida tomato pickers naiton-wide Taco Bell boycott (www.ciw-online.org);
the effort to organize, for the first time, a large business establishment
in Koreatown (www.kiwa.org); and the
boycott effort to secure back wages for garment workers making the clothes
sold at Forever 21 stores (www.sweatshopwatch.org)--an
effort that has led to Forever 21 suing the workers and campaign organizers,
including NLG-LA Executive Committee member Victor Narro. Guests will include
the noted First Amendment lawyer Carol Sobel.
March 7, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the status of the women
of the world on the eve of International Women's Day (March 8th).
Guests include: Margaret Prescod, Co-founder of International Black
Women for Wages for Housework; Lynda Brewer, a grandmother and member of
Every Mother is a Working Mother; Sam Weinstein, Assistant to the President
of the Utility Workers Union of America and member of Payday, an international
network of men working to support wages for housework; and Wendianne, a
member of the local planning committee for events held in conjunction with
the 3rd Global Women's Strike.
February 28,
2002
This special expanded
edition of "The Lawyers Guild Show" supports the "Save the Transmitter"
national fund drive for KPFK. Broadcast nationally from 6:30 - 8:00
p.m., guests will include Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jodie Williams, peace
activist Helen Caldicott, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
February 21,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" supports the KPFK fund drive. Guests include
Jeff Cohen of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (www.fair.org),
actor David Clennon, Blase Bonpane of the Office of the Americas (www.officeoftheamericas.org),
Julie Lopez Dad of SMART (www.laane.org),
Preston Wood of the International Action Center (www.iacenter.org),
Muffey Sunde of the Los Angeles Coalition to Stop the Execution of Mumia
Abu Jamal, and Frank Durrell.
February 14,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" features an interview with Congressman Dennis
Kucinich (www.house.gov/kucinich),
Chair of the Progress Caucus of the Congress and Lila Garret, President
of So. California Americans for Democratic Action (www.socalada.org).
Their topic: "Our Democracy After 9/11: Can We Save It?" Also featured
is Travis Morales, a member of La Resistencia (www.laresistencia.org),
to talk about the call for a national day of solidarity with immigrants
targeted in the wake of September 11th.
February 7,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show", will not be heard. In its place, Ron Wilkins,
a former and fired programmer at KPFK, will be given the hour to reach
out to many in the African-American community who have felt estranged from
KPFK for some years now. Ron Wilkins had asked the Lawyers Guild
if he could have our hour tonight and we and the new, interim station manager,
readily agreed.
We have no idea what Ron and his guests will talk about, nor did we ask
him. After all, that would be inconsistent with the very notion of "free
speech radio." The Lawyers Guild Show will be back on the air next Thursday
at it regular time, 7:00 p.m.
January 31,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" addresses three topics: (1) Ann Fagan Ginger,
a professor of peace law at San Francisco State, will discuss new
international treaties, to which the US is a party, which are being ignored
in the US government's handling of detainees and prisoners of war (for
more information, go to www.mcli.org);
(2) Michele Shahadeh, the Western Regional Director of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee, will discuss recent developments in Palestine
(for more information, go to www.adc.org);
and (3) Richard Becker, Co-Director of the International Action Center,
will discuss the preparations for the anti-global economic summit meeting
protests in New York and the efforts of the NYPD to intimidate, in advance,
those who might wish to participate in the protests (for more information,
go to www.iacenter.org).
January 24,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" explored the current level of danger from nuclear
weapons and nuclear power. Guests included Dr. Helen Caldicott, nobel prize
nominated peace activist and author of the soon-to-be-released, "The New
Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military Industrial Complex"; and Jonathan
Parfrey, Director of Los Angeles office of Physicians for Social Responsibility
(http://www.psrla.org or http://www.psr.org)
and Matt Petersen, Executive Director of Global Greens (http:www.globalgreens.org)
January 17,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" focused on the repression of political protestors
and looked at Greenpeace USA's agreement with the United States government
to refrain from civil disobedience at military institutions developing
"Star Wars." Guests include John Sellers of the Ruckus Society (www.ruckus.org),
John Passacantando, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA (www.greenpeaceusa.org),
defense attorney Lisa Daugaard (www.permitthis.org),
and nonviolent movement theorist Andrew Tonkovich.
January 10,
2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" focused on U.S. energy policy and alternative
and renewable sources of energy, the Enron scandal, and the relationship
of U.S. energy policy to foreign policy. Guests were from the Natural
Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org)
and the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (www.cleanpower.org).
January 3, 2002
This edition of
"The Lawyers Guild Show" continued our "teach-in" on the president's war
efforts and the response of the progressive communities. Guests included
Clark Kissinger of Refuse and Resist (www.refuseandresist.org).
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