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This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features discussions on three current topics. First, a discussion of the struggle around the historic Lincoln Place Apartments in Venice, California with attorney and preservationist Amanda Seward and others; second, a discussion of the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, passed thus far in the House of Representatives, with Marielena Hincapie, the Legal Director of the National Immigration Law Center; and finally, a discussion of the struggle of day laborers and their growing confrontation with the people of Save Our State, with Pablo Alvarez, the National Coordinator of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

February 2, 2006

This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features discussions on two topics currently in the news. First, Steve Bradberry,the head of the ACORN office in New Orleans and the first individual American to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (in 2005), joins Brian Kent, a New Orleans survivor of Hurricane Katrina now residing in Los Angeles, to discuss the problems faced by those left homeless by the storm. In the second half-hour, the show takes up the recent issue of professors at UCLA being accused of bringing their left-wing political views into the classroom and the offer of a conservative alumni group at UCLA to pay students to secure copies of the professors remarks. Guests include one of the targeted professors, Prof. Paul Von Blum Senior Lecturer of African-American Studies and Communications Studies at UCLA, and Elizabeth Kislik, a former student of the professor's now attending Stanford University.

March 13, 2006

This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features a discussion on the threats to open government and freedom of the press. Guests include: Prof. David Kohler, former general counsel for CNN and presently the Director of the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute at Southwestern University School of Law; Susan Seager, an associate with the law firm of Davis, Wright & Tremaine, LLP; Hal Fuson, the senior vice president of the Copley Press, Inc. and author of the book, Telling it All: A Legal Guide to the Exercise of Free Speech; and attorney Gary Bostwick with the law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP.

April 13, 2006

This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features a discussion on the actual numbers of Iraqi civilians killed since the start of the invasion of Iraq; on the deaths and injuries of Iraqis caused by chemicals and depleted uranium; and, on the physical and mental ailments among GI's returning from Iraq and the government's unwillingness to assume responsibility for same. Jim's guests are: Joyce Riley, of the American Gulf War Vets Association, and Scott Lipscomb, of Iraq Body Count.

May 10, 2006

This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features a discussion with Marcy Winnograd who is running for the seat in the House of Representatives now held by Jane Harmon (D., 36th Dist. CA). Ms. Harmon was invited to participate, as well, but did not respond to the several invitations to her to do so.

May 25, 2006

This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild Show features a discussion with political documentary film makers. The guests are: Alex Gibney (nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary, ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room); Robert Greenwald, Outfoxed and the soon-to-be-released, Wal-Mart: The High Price of Low Cost; and HMHardt, Death in El Valle, having to do with the Spanish civil war.

June 1, 2006

This week's edition of The Lawyers Guild features interviews with Jane Bright, a member of Gold Star Families for Peace, who has established a new social service organization for GI's returning from Iraq, and with Sally Marr and Peter Dudar, and their new material from their documentary film, Arlington West. In the second half of the show, Dr. Jess Ghannun, Board member of the Gaza Community Mental Health Plan, a doctor dividing his time between his practice in California and the occupied territories of Palestine, discusses the crowing humanitarian crisis flowing from the cutting off of aid and tax revenue to the new Hamas government.


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