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Fund Raising – shows the week of 10/17 through 10/31 2011
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Friend of the show and best-selling author Greg Palast is coming to Houston as part of his book tour and will be speaking to KPFT listeners to raise money for the station.
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Greg Palast is best known as the investigative reported who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida voters rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election.Author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse, Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.“Vulture’s Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Predators”.
Event Details:
Book signing and movie Presentation: Thursday December 8, 2011
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 5501 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77004 (Location Map)
Praise for Greg Palast:
“A cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes” (Jim Hightower, The Nation), Greg Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast’s reports appear on BBC’s Newsnight and in Britain’s Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper’s.
Palast directed the US’ government’s largest racketeering case in history (that garnered a $4.3 billion jury award) and the investigation of the Exxon Valdez.
Palast is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.
Show Details for Monday February 8th, 2010
Tonight’s guests:
Brad Freidman
Brad is an independent investigative journalist, blogger, broadcaster, VelvetRevolution.us co-founder, expert on issues of election integrity, and a Commonweal Institute Fellow.
Mark Bebawi spoke with him in some detail about the death of Mike Connell – The story for which The BRAD BLOG was awarded a 2010 Project Censored award for “Excellence in Investigative Journalism”
Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is the immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights law. She lectures throughout the world on human rights and US foreign policy. Mark Bebawi spoke with her about John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting away with drafting the 2002 memo that gave legal cover for Bush/Cheney’s use of torture. She said on the topic: “A prior draft of the Office of Professional Responsibility’s report reportedly determined that John Yoo and Jay Bybee violated their professional obligations by writing the now infamous 2002 torture memo. After several months and likely pressure from the White House, the OPR’s conclusion was downgraded to ‘poor judgment,’ which will not trigger potential discipline of Yoo and impeachment of Bybee. This is consistent with Obama’s approach of shielding Bush officials from accountability to curry favor with Republicans.” Check out her article: http://marjoriecohn.com/2009/02/war-criminals-including-their-lawyers.html
Tonight’s guests:
Brad Freidman
Brad is an independent investigative journalist, blogger, broadcaster, VelvetRevolution.us co-founder, expert on issues of election integrity, and a Commonweal Institute Fellow. I spoke with him in some detail about the death of Mike Connell – The story for which The BRAD BLOG was awarded a 2010 Project Censored award for “Excellence in Investigative Journalism”
Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is the immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights law. She lectures throughout the world on human rights and US foreign policy. I spoke with her about John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting away with drafting the 2002 memo that gave legal cover for Bush/Cheney’s use of torture. She said on the topic: “A prior draft of the Office of Professional Responsibility’s report reportedly determined that John Yoo and Jay Bybee violated their professional obligations by writing the now infamous 2002 torture memo. After several months and likely pressure from the White House, the OPR’s conclusion was downgraded to ‘poor judgment,’ which will not trigger potential discipline of Yoo and impeachment of Bybee. This is consistent with Obama’s approach of shielding Bush officials from accountability to curry favor with Republicans.” Check out her article: http://marjoriecohn.com/2009/02/war-criminals-including-their-lawyers.html
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