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The
Lawyers Guild Radio Show
KPFK
90.7 FM
Thursdays,
7:00 p.m.
December
30, 2004
This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features a
discussion of an art show entitled "THIS LAND TO ME - Some Call It
Palestine, Others Israel" at the Frumkin Gallery. Guests include
Barbara Grover, the photographer who created the show, and Sherry
Frumkin, owner of the gallery where the show is on display.
December
23, 2004
This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features a
discussion of a RICO lawsuit brought by a developer against several
employees of the federal Forest Service and a local environmental
activist. Its believed to be the first time the RICO Act has been used
in such a fashion. Guests include: Sandy Steers, the defendant local
activist; Andy Stahl, the Executive Director of the Forest Service
Employees for Environmental Ethics, speaking on behalf of the defendant
Forest Service employees (andy@fseee-org); Peter Galvin, the
Conservation Director of the Center for Biological Diversity (www.biologicaldiversity.org); and Adam Keats, a
staff attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
December
16, 2004
This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features a
discussion of three topics. First, the just announced precedent-setting
$500,000,000.00 Community Betterment Agreement between LAANE, the
California Partnership for Working Families and the City of Los
Angeles, involving conditions at and around the LAX airport; second, a
discussion of a victory for day-laborers in their fight to solicit jobs
without being harassed or arrested; and third, a brief report on
up-coming anti-war protests. Guests include the Rev. William Smart,
Senior Community Organizer with LAANE ("L.A. Alliance for a New
Economy," www.laane.org.), Jerilyn Lopez
Mendoza, Policy Director, Los Angeles Office of Environmental Defense (www.environmentaldefense.org), Attorney Julian
Gross, with the California Partnership for Working Families (www.californiapartnership.org), Chris Newman,
Director of the National Day-Laborer Project, and attorney Mona
Coobtee, with the International ANSWER/LA Coalition.
December
9, 2004 - No Show
December
2, 2004
This week's Lawyers
Guild Show features a discussion on the spate of lawsuits now pending
which challenge various aspects of the conduct of voting in the recent
U.S. Presidential election. The principal guest will be
Professor Marjorie Cohn, a law professor at Thomas Jefferson School of
Law, a contributing editor to "Truthout.org," and the U.S.
Representative to the Executive Committee of the American Association
of Jurists.
November
25, 2004 - No Show
November
18, 2004
This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show features a
discussion with the author and one of the contributors of a new book on
the US military, entitled, "America's Military Today: The Challenge of
Militarism." The author is Tod Ensign, Director of Citizen
Soldier in NYC and the contributor is Dan Fahey, a Gulf-war Navy vet
and an expert on depleted uranium.
November
11, 2004
This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show features a discussion
about the Playa Vista development recently approved by the City of Los
Angeles and litigation brought to challenge it. Guests include
Tom Francis, Executive Director of the Ballona Wetlands Land Trust; Rob
Woods with the California Native American Heritage Commission, and
Robert Myers, Vice-President of the NLG/LA Chapter. The principal
focus of the show will be on the destruction of a Native American
cemetery by the Playa Vista developer.
November
4, 2004
This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show features interviews
with various key activists regarding their views on the impact of the
presidential election on the movements they represent. Among the guests
are: Preston Wood, from the anti-war movement's ANSWER Coalition; Yael
Korin from Women in Black and the middle east peace movement; Hamid
Khan, Director of the South Asian Network, speaking on the immigrants'
rights movement; Joe Delaplane from the same-sex marriage movement; and
the Natural Resources Defense Council's David Beckman, from the
environmental movement.
October
28, 2004
This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show features a review
and recommendations concerning the 17 propositions and measures on next
Tuesday's California ballot. Guests are from Coalition L.A., a
progressive coalition. They include Darla Fjield, the Executive
Director of Coalition LA; Gary Phillips, the Secretary of their Board;
and Mario Ceullar, one of their chief organizers.
September
16, 2004
This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show (Thursday, September 15, 2004; KPFK, 90.7
FM), features a discussion of three separate topics. Topic one is an
interview with national Guild president, Prof. Michael Avery,
discussing the Guild's post-9/11 repression conference and MCLE, to be
held in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 18th; the second topic is
the rise of the Christian evangelical movement in the United States,
with British journalist and documentary film maker, Roger Trilling; and
in the last segment of the show Joanne Mariner, a researcher with Human
Rights Watch, discusses her just-completed five week fact-finding rip
to Sudan and Chad.
September
9, 2004
This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show, coming as it does on the eve of the third
anniversary of the attacks of 9/11, features an interview with
the NLG's national Director, Heidi Bogoshian, on her new book
chronicling the government's assault on free speech, public assembly
and dissent, post-9/11. There will also be an interview with Bruce
Bentley, the Coordinator of the New York Guild's legal defense work
during the recent Republican Party National Convention, on the behavior
of the police and the work of the Guild in defending the protesters
during the convention.
September
2,
2004 - Special RNC Programming
August
26, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features an interview with former U.S.
Ambassador
Joseph Wilson whose CIA operative wife, following a negative report on
the Bush Administration's use of intelligence data to support its
invasion
of Iraq, was "outed" by someone in the Bush Administration. An FBI
criminal
investigation into the source of the leak and outing of the CIA agent
is
on-going.
August
19, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on preparations for
protests
at the RNC in New York City, with Attorney Bruce Bentley, the RNC
Mass-Defense
Coordinator for the New York City Chapter of the Lawyers Guild; an
interview
with John Beacham, an organizer with the Los Angeles Branch of a new
political
party, "The Party for Socialism and Liberation;" and an interview with
playwright Marcus Flanagan, author of the new play about the death
penalty
entitled, "Mitigating Circumstances," now playing at the Ruskin Group
Theater
at the Santa Monica airport.
August
12, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of the "Arlington West
Memorial"
project, whereby a cross is placed in the sand on Santa Monica beach
representing
each GI killed in Iraq. Guests include Steve Sherrill, from Santa
Barbara,
the creator of the project, Sally Marr and Peter Dudar, who have made a
documentary film about the project and Chuck Nixon, from Veterans for
Peace,
who is the local organizer for the project.
August
5, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the effects of a bad
environment on human health. Guests include Dr. Prasad Shankar, the
Special
Advisor to the Chair of the California Clean Air Resources Center, and
attorney Maria Hall, who has sued various companies for their
helath-damaging
pollution.
July
22, 2004
- Special DNC Programming
July
15, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a listener call-in show. The
topic
was an article in the Los Angeles Times on July 15, 2004 by Max Boot
entitled
"In Modern Imperialism, U.S. Needs to Walk Softly."
July
8, 2004
- No Show
July
1, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a round-up of several topics,
including
a report on recent Supreme Court opinions dealing with the President's
power to hold "enemy combatants" without judicial review during war
time;
the just-concluded A.C.O.R.N. national convention; and a report on
contract
negotiations between the members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant
Employees Union, Local 11 and the major Los Angeles Hotels.
June
25, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" falls during the KPFK membership drive. Host
Jim
Lafferty is joined by national Pacifica Radio Board member David
Adelson,
to play excerpts of various premiums being given away during the pledge
drive, such as from recorded speeches of Noam Chomsky. All members are
urged to call in their pledges.
June
17, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the neglect and
abuse of children in the custody of the juvenile court system. Guests
include
Attorneys Inez Cooper-Schmit, Jeneen Steel, and Robert Mann.
June
10, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the corporate
corruption
connected to the "re-building of Iraq;" and the unfolding Iraq detainee
prison scandal. Guests include Prothat Chatterjee, the Program Director
and Managing Editor of "Corpwatch," and the author of "Houston, We Have
a Problem;" and Professor Bob Buzzanco, a history professor at the
University
of Houston and the author of "Masters of War." Another segment features
attorney Stacy Tolchin, reporting on the new legal effort to free four
Iranian brothers, held in custody for over 2 1/2 years, for opposing
the
theocratic government in Iraq.
June
3, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of the media's coverage
leading up to and during the war in Iraq, with special focus on the New
York Times' admission of faulty reporting. Guests include
nationally-syndicated
columnist, Norman Solomon and investigative journalist Greg Palast,
author
of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." There will also be a short
segment
on the up-coming June 5th anti-war protests.
May
27, 2004
- No Show
May
20, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the Iraq war with
guest
Preston Wood from ANSWER.
May13,
2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the growing Iraqi
prison
scandal. Guests include: Marc Garlasco, former Pentagon Intelligence
officer
and now Senior Military Advisor for Human Rights Watch (www.hrw.org);
Prof. Marjorie Cohn, law professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of
Law;
and Hana Alwardi, a native-born Iraqi woman now living in the United
States.
May
6, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion with the award-winning
investigative
journalist Greg Palast, the author of "The Best Democracy Money Can
Buy."
Among the matters discussed will be his claim that the 2004
presidential
election has already been decided due to the effects of the Help
America
Vote Act, and the matter of an American journalist being told of the
Iraq
prison scandal by a high-ranking Pentagon official in January of this
year,
but the story never making it to the American airwaves until last week.
See www.gregpalast.com.
April
29, 2004
- Special Programming
April
22, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the growing crisis
brought
about by the world's diminishing water supply and the efforts of
multi-national
corporations to privatize the supplying of water. Guests include:
Daniel
Politi, a member of the Public Integrity Project of the International
Consortium
of Investigative Journalists, publishers of "The Water Barrons;"
Deborah
Kaufman, one of the documentary film makers of the movie "Thirst,"
which
is scheduled to be aired on PBS later this spring; and Hugh Jackson, a
political analyst with Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and
Environment
Program." Additionally, Carol Sobel, president of the National
Lawyers
Guild/LA Chapter, will update us in the recent victory against Forever
21.
April
15, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion of the death penalty.
Guests
include the actor and activist Mike Farrell, Catholic Auxillary Bishop
Gabino Zavala, and noted death penalty defense lawyer Robert Sanger.
April
8, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features discussions on two topics. First,
State
Senator Gill Cedillo (Dem. 22nd Dist.) will discuss his efforts to
secure
driver's licenses for immigrant motorists and other developments in the
State Legislature. Second, Preston Wood, member of the Steering
Committee
of International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, will discuss the escalating
war
in Iraq and the US anti-war movement's planned response.
April
1, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" featuresa discussion of a ballot initiative
before
the voters of Inglewood on April 6th, which, if passed, will allow
Wal-Mart
to have complete control - governmental and otherwise - over the
planning
and development of 660,000 square feet of the City of Inglewood, where
it intends to build its first "superstore" in the Los Angeles region.
Guests
include: Ralph Franklin, Inglewood City Councilmember for the 4th
District;
Rev. Carol Scott, minister of the Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
Church;
Daniel Tabor, V.P. of UCFW Local 770; and Erin Aubry Kaplan, a staff
writer
for the L.A. Weekly newspaper.
March
25, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the history of, and
current
situation in, Haiti. Guests include: Joanne Mariner, from Human Rights
Watch who joins the show via phone from Haiti; Prof. Robert Fattan, a
native
of Haiti and now the Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and
Foreign
Affairs and the Chair of the Department of Politics at the University
of
Virginia; and Andrew Gumbel, who has covered Haiti for five years the
London-based
newspaper, The Independent.
March
18, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a round-table of guests reviewing the
war in Iraq on its first anniversary. Guests include: Richard Becker,
member
of the International ANSWER Coalition steering committee; Kathleen
Huff,
wife of Roger Huff, an Army reservist serving in Iraq; Andy Griggs,
Chair
of the Human Rights Committee of the UTLA and California Federation of
Teachers; Muna Coobtee, representing the Free Palestine Alliance; and
Rosie
Martinez, nurse organizer for SEIU 660.
March
11, 2004
-- Special Programming
March
4, 2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the report from the
Union
of Concerned Scientists, strongly criticizing the Bush Administration
for
manipulating the findings of the scientific community on federal
advisory
boards, for censoring scientific reports that are at odds with the
administration's
own political agenda, and for replacing unfavored scientists with
scientists
employed by the industry the advisory committee monitors. Guests
include
Dr. Kurt Gottfried, the co-founder of the Union of Concerned
Scientists,
and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
Council
on Foreign Relations; and Dr. Anthony Robbins, professor of Public
Health
at Tufts University and the former Director of the National Institute
of
Occupational Safety and Health in the Carter
Administration.
(The Union of Concerned Scientists report can be found at www.ucsusa.org.)
Also appearing on the show is Victor Narro, Project Director for the
UCLA
Downtown Labor Center, discussing current immigrants' rights issues.
February
26,2004
February
19,
2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a review of several controversial
ballot
measures facing California voters on March 2nd, including Props 56, 57
and 58. Jim's guests are: David Sickler, the Regional Director of the
California
State Building Trades Council and the Director of the LA/Orange County
Organizing Committee for the AFL-CIO; and, Tracy Zeloff, the Assistant
Field Director for the SEIU State Council. This is also the time of the
winter membership fund drive and all Guild members are urged to call
KPFK
(818/985-5735) and make their pledge...preferably during the Lawyers
Guild
Show this week or next!
February
12,
2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion with Heidi Boghosian,
Executive
Director of the National Lawyers Guild national office, about the
successful
challenge to subpoenas for Drake Law School chapter records. In
addition,
Gloria La Riva, the National Co-Director of the International Action
Center,
reported on her recent participation at the Third Annual World Social
Forum,
held this year in Mumbai, India; and Preston Wood, a member of the
Steering
Committee of the International ANSWER Coalition, discussed recent
developments
in Iraq and the anti-war movement's plans for world-wide anti-war
rallies
on March 20, 2004.
February
5,
2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a discussion on the scheduled
execution
of California death row inmate Kevin Cooper. Guests include: Attorney
Lanny
Davis, former Special Counsel to former President Bill Clinton and a
partner
in the law firm, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe in Washington, D.C.;
Stefanie Faucher, Program Director of Death Penalty Focus in
California;
and Joy Sojoody, a member of Murder Victims Families for
Reconciliation.
Relevant web sites:
www.deathpenalty.org; www.kevincooper.org;
and www.mvfr.org.
January
30,
2004 - Special Programming
January
22,
2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" explores two topics: first, Angela Sanbrano
the
Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center, or
"CARECEN,"
and Attorney Victor Narro, the Project Director at the UCLA Labor
Center,
will discuss the Bush Administration's recent new proposal on
immigration
reform. Then Attorney Larry Frank, Staff Director of the UCLA Labor
Center
will discuss the 2004-2005 California budget.
January
15,
2004
This
edition of
the "Lawyers Guild Show" features a listener call-in show. The topic:
"Do
you believe that electing any one of the Democratic candidates for
president
will result in a substantial change of direction in the country and a
substantial
change in the lives of ordinary Americans?"
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