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The
Lawyers Guild Radio Show Archives December 29, 2005
This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show consists of an end-of-the-year, "New Year's Resolutions," listener call-in show. Listeners will be asked to indicate what particular peace, civil right, civil liberty, environmental, or social justice issue they intend to work on in 2006, and how they intend to work on the issue. Listeners will also be invited to let other listeners know about groups that may be of interest to others working on the same issue. This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features a round-table discussion on New Orleans post-hurricane Katrina. Guests include Bob Marshall, reporter from the New Orleans Times Picayune, who first alerted the nation to the problem with the levees; Malik Rahim, Co-founder of the grass-roots group, Common Ground Collective, and Mary Howell, a civil rights and criminal defense attorney. The discussion centers on why the damage was as great as it was, how people are now coping, and what needs to be done to save and rebuild New Orleans. This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features discussions of three topics. First, Jane Simpson of the Sierra Club discusses the club's Wilderness Travel Course designed to increase awareness of the wilderness and the need to protect it (angeles.sierraclub.org/wtc/). Next Brian Becker, the National Coordinator of the International ANSWER Anti-War coalition, discusses the ramification of today's parliamentary elections in Iraq. And, finally, award-winning New York Times Notable Book of the Year author and professor Joan Mellen, of Temple University, discusses her latest book, A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have changed History. This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features an interview with the noted nationally syndicated media critic, Norman Solomon, about his new book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits are Spinning Us to Death. In the last half-hour of the show, the host talks with anti-war activist John Beecham, of the International ANSWER Coalition, L.A., about his visit to Korea during the Asian economic summit. He discusses the North Korean nuclear program, how Koreans view the U.S., how South Koreans view North Korea; the move for re-unification of north and south, and the South Korean economy. November 24, 2005 - Thanksgiving Programming November 17, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features a discussion of the debate surrounding the renewal and extension of provisions of the U.S.A. patriot Act, with Lisa Graves, Senior Counsel for Legislative Strategy at the national office of the ACLU. Then, noted international law expert Professor Ann Fagan Ginger, discuses the legal implications of the U.S. military's admission it has used White Phosphorous in its war in Iraq. Finally, Attorney Adalila Garcia-Zelada, the Chief Administration of the Peoples College of Law, discusses the workings of that college and the achievements of its graduates on its Thirtieth anniversary. November 10, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features a full hour discussion on the treatment of gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgendered persons at the hands of the police, both out on the streets and in the jails and prisons. Guests include Ariel Herrera, the National Field Organizer for Outfront!, a project of Amnesty USA; and Roger Coggan, the Director of Legal Services at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center. November 3, 2005 - Special Election Programming October 27, 2005 - No Show October 20, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show consists of a "town-hall-meeting-of-the-air" listener call-in show around the topic: "will you be voting in next month's election and if `yes,' why and if `no' why?" October 13, 2005 - Fund Drive October 6, 2005 - Fund Drive September 15, 22, and 29, 2005 - No Show September 8, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features an eye-witness report by Gloria La Riva, national coordinator of the Coalition to free the Cuban Five, on the damage from hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the failure of government to help. In the second segment two school teachers, Bill Gallegos and Rebecca Solomon describe the process by which several socialists were elected to the governing board of the United Teachers of Los Angeles union. September 1, 2005 August 25, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features discussions on two topics. In the first segment a Gold Star Parent for Peace, Melenie House, who joined Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas, discusses the death of her son and her work on behalf of ending the U.S. war in Iraq. Joining her is documentary film maker Peter Dudar who is making a film about the protest in Crawford. August
18, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features
discussions of two topics. First, an interview with Art Garcia,
Coordinator of the Philippines Peasant
Support Network, about recent
developments in the Philippines and the on-going struggle of Filipinos
who fought along side U.S. troops in the Second World War to receive
veterans benefits as promised at the time. Then, the matter of the
growing rate of air pollution coming from the operation of the Ports of
Los Angeles and Long Beach. Guests for this topic are: Attorney Melissa
Lin Perrella, with the Natural Resources
Defense Council; Todd Campbell, with
the Coalition
for Clean Air;
and Peter Greenwald, with the Southern California
Air Quality Management District.
August
11, 2005 This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show
features a discussion of three separate
topics. First, Celeste Zappala, whose soldier son was killed while
looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and who is now in
Crawford, Texas protesting the war in Iraq and demanding a meeting with
George Bush. In the second segment Gloria La Riva, national coordinator
of the Committee to Free the Cuban Five and Ian Thompson, a local
organizer for the Committee, will discuss the recent victory of the
Cuban Five in winning a new trial and a change of venue. And in the
last segment Tezozomoc, a representative of the South Central Farmers
who are threatened with eviction from their award-winning 14-acre urban
farm in downtown Los Angeles, and the farmers' attorney, Ron Kaye,
discuss the case and their strategy for saving the farm.
August
4, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features a
discussion of the decision of the Teamster, SIEU, and other unions to
split from the AFL-CIO. The Lawyers Guild Show this week is combined
with The Labor Review Show for an expanded two hour show on the recent
defections of a few large unions from the AFL-CIO. Among the guests
are: David Johnson, National Organizing Director of the California
Nurses Association; Tyrone Freeman, V.P. of the Service Employees
International Union and President of SEIU Local 434B; Kent Wong,
Director of the UCLA Labor Center; and Heidi Durham, author of "Women
Workers: Labor's Sparkplugs."
July
28, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features two
discussions. The first is on recent developments in the movement to
abolish the death penalty and the role of art in affecting public
opinion about capital punishment. Guests are Carol Wells, founder and
Executive Director of the Center for the Study
of Political Graphics, and attorney Steve
Rohde, Vice President of Death Penalty Focus and former President
of the A.C.L.U. of Southern California. The second topic is last
night's passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of the Central
American Free Trade Agreement ("CAFTA"). The guest for this topic is
Don White the Director of Committee In
Solidarity With the People of El Salvador.
July
21, 2005 July
14, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features an interview with writer and journalist Ed Rampell regarding his latest book, Progressive Hollywood: A Peoples Film History of the United States. Topics to be covered include: the history of Hollywood political activism; the current treatment of politics in Hollywood movies; the response of the government to Hollywood political activism; the price actors and movie makers have paid for their activism; and, does the specter of a new "Blacklist" hang over Hollywood today? Joining Jim as a co-host for this show is Prof. Steven Ross, the Chair of the USC History Department and himself a writer of books on politics and Hollywood activism. July 7, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features two topics. In the first half-hour Gloria La Riva, a socialist activist, joins host Jim Lafferty to discuss the current G8 Summit meeting in Scotland. In the second half-hour a reporter and a coal miner join Jim to discuss an unusual law suit filed against the leading daily newspapers in the State of Utah, 17 coal miners, and The Militant Newspaper, for defamation growing out of the newspapers coverage of the strike and the statements of some of the locked-out coal miners. June
30, 2005 This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show opens with a segment on the up-coming deportation trial of two members of the 18-year long case of the "L.A. 8." Jim's guests are Hudar Hamide, one of the LA 8 defendants and Attorney Marc van der Hout, the lead attorney for the LA 8. In the last segment of the show Jim talks with Nadia McCaffrey, the mother of Patrick McCaffrey, killed in fighting in Iraq, who defied George Bush's ban on photographing the coffins of returning dead GIs. She also went to Jordan to meet with the mothers and fathers of Iraqi's killed in the US war and occupation in Iraq. Mark Manning, joins the show as the documentary film maker who recorded the McCaffrey meetings in Jordan and who also made a documentary entitled, "Caught in the Cross-Fire, " a film about the U.S. assaults on Faludja and their impact on the civilian population there. June
23, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features an on-air
debate among the show's listeners on the question of whether or not the
U.S. should renew the military draft.
June16,
2005 - Fund Drive June
9, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show is a special
two-hour edition aired in conjunction with The Labor Review Show. Since this is
membership drive time at KPFK, the substantive topics will only occupy
one-half of the air time so as to allow the hosts to urge listeners to
contribute and renew their memberships. The topics to be covered are:
the up-coming U.S. tour of Iraqi labor leaders with journalist David
Bacon; the issue of military recruiting in public schools with Arlene
Inoye, founder of the Coalition Against
Militarism in Schools; and an up-date on the
HERE/UNITE struggle against the big unionized hotels in Los Angeles,
with guests on this topic yet to be scheduled.
June
2, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features discussions
on
three current issues. In the first segment, Erin Callahan, the Western
USA Director for Amnesty International, discusses the
group's report on U.S. human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay and
the Bush Administration's dismissive reaction to the report. In
the second segment Jerry Vlasak, an animal rights attorney in Los
Angeles and Camille Hankins, the co-founder of the group, Win Animal Rights, discuss the
Department of Homeland Security's draft report which targets left
groups, such as environmental groups, but not right-wing groups like
the 150 US paramilitary groups, for targeting by the Department in
their so-called "war on domestic terrorism." In the final segment
Richard Becker, a leader in the anti-war group, International ANSWER, discusses the
significance of the now released, and highly secret, Downing Street
Memo documenting the fact that the Bush Administration had reached a
firm decision to invade and occupy Iraq at least eight months before
doing so and was busy at work doctoring the intelligence information to
make it square with their claim that Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction.
May
26, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features a
discussion of two topics much in the news. In the first segment
representatives of the California Nurses Association and the Foundation
for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which hosts the web site www.arnoldwatch.org. will discuss the
growing protest movement against California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger. In the second segment of the show Camilo Meija
discusses his decision not to return to Iraq for a second tour of duty
after witnessing the war's effects on civilians and the country.
He served nine months in prison as a consequence of his stand against
the war and was declared a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty
International. For more information, www.freecamilo.org
May
19, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features two
topics. First, a discussion of the request of Venezuela extradite
from the United States Cuban exile and CIA collaborator Luis Posada Carriles
for his partcipation in the bombing of a commerical airliner. Second, a
discussion with Guild attorney Marjorie Cohn
concerning the Pablo Paredes court martial case (www.defendpablo.org).
May
12, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features a
discussion of military's Delayed Entry Program (DEP) with Guild
Attorney Robert Myers. It also included a call-in segment about
military recruiting issues.
May
5, 2005 This week's
edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show features a discussion of recent
developments in Syria and Lebanon with Mike Lee, an attorney with the
Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office and a long-time political
activist. Mr. Lee has just returned from a fact-finding mission to
Syria and Lebanon sponsored by Global Exchange. The show will also
include a segment with John Beacham, chief organizer with the
A.N.S.W.E.R./L.A. anti-war coalition about a new, broad-based coalition
A.N.S.W.E.R./L.A. has formed to oppose the Bush Administration's plans
for changing Social Security.
April
28, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features an
interview with Ann Fagan Ginger, Executive Director of the Meiklejohn
Civil Liberties Institute (www.mcli.org),
about its new report entitled "Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations
Since 9/11." It also
included an interview with Guild Attorney Robert Myers about military
recruiting issues.
April
21, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features three
different topics. First, attorney Doris Brin Walker talks about the
life and work of attorney John McTernan, a founding member of the
Lawyers Guild and a pillar in the progressive movement for social
change for over 60 years; then Lisa Jaskol, one of the attorneys in the
Santiago case challenging the
government's "stop-loss" policy that allows GIs to be kept in service
beyond the expiration date in their enlistment contract, discusses the
recent argument in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; and,
finally, Andy Griggs and Emma Rosenthal, two educators, discuss recent
developments within the UTLA ("United Teachers of Los Angeles") and the
up-coming UTLA Human Rights Conference.
April
14, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show was recorded
at the Death Penalty Focus Annual Dinner held in Santa Monica on April
13, 2005 with interviews with Bishop Henry
Williamson, Professor Larry Marshall, Mike Farrell, Bradley Whitford,
Don Heller, and Sister Helen Prejean.
April
7, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features discussions
on three topics. First, an interview with famed civil rights lawyer
Chokwe Lumumba on his on-going struggle for civil rights in the south
and his recent suspension from the Mississippi Bar over remarks he made
about a local trial judge. Next, an interview with organizers of the
annual immigrants rights march on May 1st in Los Angeles. And finally,
a segment with a representative of the Central Committee for
Conscientious Objectors designed to educate the listeners on the
requirements for obtaining conscientious objector status for those in
the military, or for those preparing to register for the draft.
March
31, 2005 This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show
features a discussion concerning the NLG's
new "Bill Smith Military Resistance Project."
March
25, 2005 This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show
features a discussion on Social Security.
Guests include: Ernie Powell, Associate Director of Advocacy for AARP (www.aarp.org); Gloria
La Riva, President of the Typographical Sector of the Communications
Workers of America; and Attorney Joel Leidner, who has practiced Social
Security law for over 30 years.
March17,
2005 This week's edition
of The Lawyers Guild Show
features three topics all related to the war
in Iraq.
First, Dr. Gino Strada, from the group "Emergency," will discuss his
experiences as an emergency surgeon for civilian victims of the war in
Iraq and Afghanistan (www.emergencyusa.org); next peace
activist Muna Coobtee discusses plans for this Saturday's anti-war
protests in Los Angeles and around the nation and the world on the
second anniversary of the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq; and finally,
Richard Becker discusses his article on U.S. policy vis-a-vis Syria and
Lebanon. Both Mr. Becker and Ms. Coobtee are members of the anti-war
group, International A.N.S.W.E.R. (www.answerla.org).
March
10, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features a "Town
Hall" discussion on the City of Los Angeles's mayoral election.
March 3, 2005 January
27, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features three
topics: (a) an interview with Eric Mann, the Director of the
Labor/Community Strategy Center (home of "The Bus Rider's Union") in
Los Angeles on their up-coming conference on The Future of
Transportation;
(b) an interview with Aidan Delgado, an ex-Iraqi War vet, on his combat
experience in Iraq, including his six-months of work at the infamous
Abu Ghraib prison, and his view of the life of Iraqi civilians under
U.S. occupation; and (c) a discussion with Cole Miller, a free-lance
writer and activist who's work in bringing the Iraqi child, and her
picture with half of her arm blown off, to the American public, has
helped to humanize the face of the U.S. war in Iraq.
January
20, 2004 - No Show - Special Programming January
13, 2005 This week's edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features
representatives from three political movements, each discussing what
the next year holds in store for their particular movement. The three
movements, and their spokespersons, are: (a) the movement to end
Israeli occupation of Palestine, with Elias Rashmawi of the Free
Palestine Alliance; (b) the animal rights movement, with Jerry Vlassak,
M.D., of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office; and (c) the
global justice/anti-CAFTA movement, with Don White of CISPES.
January
6, 2005 This week's
edition
of The
Lawyers Guild Show features interviews
with the leaders of four different political movements, the same-sex
marriage movement, the movement to defend Cuba, the anti-war movement
and the movement for immigrants' rights. The guests from the respective
movement are: Robin Tyler (same-sex marriage movement); Gloria LaRiva
(Cuba); Preston Wood (anti-war movement); and Victor Narro (immigrants'
rights movement).
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