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Show #147 "Veterans Day March" Veterans for Peace and friends march in the Hartford Veterans Day parade and get a warm reception form the crowd. Interviews with three membes of Veterans for Peace (who were all "in country" in Vietnam in the '60's). Jimmy Massey an Iraq war veteran from his talk in New Haven in 2004 as he tells how the mounting number of civilian casualties convinced him to end his Marine career. [Massey is featured in the movie documentary "The Ground Truth".]

Show #145 "ANSWER Rally in New Haven" featuring remarks by Farid Faramond on Iran, Stanley Heller on Gaza, Chris Towne on the Danbury 11, and Victorya McEvoy on the murders in Oaxaca, Mexico. Also Simon Moshenberger recalls his friend Brad Will was was murdered in Oaxaca.

Show #141 "Gitmo" Attorney Elizabeth Gilson talks about the Bush reign of terror on prisoners in Guantanamo on the rights of Americans. Ann Sapp of Military Families Speak Out tells what it was like for her family when her husband was in Iraq. Stanley Heller comments on the report that 650,000 Iraqis had died since the invasion.

Show #139 "Terror Victim's Mother" Dr. Nirit Peled Elhanan speech September 30 in New London. He daughther was murdered by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in 1997. She's furious at her own Israeli government for the mistreatment of Palestinians that has spawned violence and counterviolence. Interview with Holly Khader about the increasing persecution of Palestinians in Iraq. Also a much needed repeat of part of an interview with Scott Ritter where he explains that there is no evidence the Iran had a nuclear weapons program.

Show #138 "About Richard Sitcha" Albert Moreau talks about the case of a Cameroon immigrant who received political asylum only to be imprisoned here when the State Department questioned some of his references. Also Justine McCabe's talk in Danbury in September. McCabe was in the Occupied Territories this summer.

Show #137 "Immigrants are Welcome Here" Last month's counter protest to the "Minutemen" anti-immigrant rally. Also Marela Zacarias on the big rally coming up on Oct 1 in Hartford uniting immigrant rights and anti-war folks. (note she mentions Sept. 30 as the date, but the rally date has been changed to Oct. 1) Andy Sapp of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Show #136 "Kozol on Schools" Reknowned education writer Jonathan Kozol speaks out against the resegreation of schools and critiques the practices in minority schools of rote and programmed learning. News about a joining of the immigrant rights movement and anti-war movement on September 30 in Hartford.

Show #135 "Military Family Mom" Nancy Lessin, co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, talks against the war and about her 3,000 member organization at a Boston meeting. Highlghts of Juan Jose Guiterrez speech at the New Britain, CT AFSC dinner. Fatima Rojas interviews Guiterrez.

Show #134 "Occupation is a Crime" Well over 10,000 march in DC on August 12 to protest the Israeli invasions and occupation. Hear Dr. Esam Omesh of the Muslim-American society, Brian Becker of ANSWER, Clovis Maksoud speaker for the ADC, minutes of the march with all the colorfull signs and banners. Also Lenni Brenner talks about the decline of religion in the U.S. (from a 2005 talk in CT)

Show #133 "Nature of the Resistance" Michael Schwartz concludes the very smart lecture he gave about the Iraqi resistance and the terrorist problem in Iraq. Recorded at the ISO convention in June. Also young women from BAMN talk about the danger to school integration reflected in new cases going to the Supreme Court. Stanley Heller reflects on Sy Hersh's warning about Bush, Lebanon and Iran.

Show #132 "Stop Israel Demo" Hundreds march in downtown New Haven, CT. Dr. Tony Snieh on Lebanon talks about his fears for his family and country. Featured is part of a excellent talk given in June in New York City by political writer Michael Schwartz about the origins of the Iraqi resistance.

Show #131 "Brooklyn Bridge Demo" 1500 people march along the Brooklyn Bridge in protest of the Israeli invasions of Gaza and Lebanon. Mazin Qumsiyeh and Anthony Arnove speak. Highlight: Ralph Nader's stunning remarks on Israel's "war crime" in Lebanon. Mustapha Ali on rising dissent in Egypt. Carol Caref on New Orleans.

Show #130 "Boston Anti-War" the July demonstration in Boston against the Israeli Invasions of Lebanon and Gaza. Interviews with Hana Khalil Ritscher, Mohsen Haidar, Margaret Mirada, John Harris and gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. Also Nativo Lopez, national director of the Mexican-American Political Association and a key organizer of the first huge rally for immigrants in Chicago speaks harshly against the Hagal-Martinzez "comproise" bill.

Show #129 "Savage Invasion" Stanley Heller rips Israeli excuses for its invasions. Interview with Palestinian-American writer and activist Toufic Haddad (NYC, late June), and part of Norman Finkelstein's talk in New Britian, CT in the spring about how the international court decided Israel's wall was a lawbreaker.

Show #128 "Levy and Barghouti" Mazin Qumsiyeh interviews famed Israeli newspaper columnist Gideon Levy and Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti

Show #126 "Ex-Marine" Rob Serra talks about the events that caused him to give up his career in the Marines and join Iraq Vets Against the War. Ionna Gutas who visited Lebanon several months ago talks of the miserable conditions of Palestinians there. Reggie Marra reads anti-war poetry.

Show #125 "Visitor to Lebanon" Ionna Gutas who visted Lebanon several months ago talks about the situation there. Also June 3 rally in New Haven against the sanctions against Palestinians. Mazin Qumsiyeh, and Stanley Heller speak

Show #124 "Palestinian Women" interview with Leila el-Haddad Palestinian journalist, blogger and mother from Gaza City. Also interview with Samia Halaby, major Palestinian artist and organizer of the "Made in Palestine" art exhibit in NYC with scences of some of the artwork. Also an interview done last fall with Kathy Kelly about witnessing the "Shock and Awe" invasion and her new book, "From Baghdad to Pekin Prison"

Show #123 "The USS Liberty" Israeli jets and torpedo boats killed 34 US sailors and injured 172 on June 8, 1967. The survivors say the attack was deliberate. This show is based entirely on a documentary video made by the survivors. It includes video of retired Admiral Thomas H. Moorer former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Fouding Chairman of the USS Liberty Alliance.

Show #122 "To Be an Arab in Israel" Part of a speech by Fouzi al-Asmar, Palestinian-American writer, columnist and poet about discimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel. Also coverage of the "Justice for Janitor" 32BJ rally and march in New Haven featuring State Senator Toni Harp."

Show #120 "Mayday Immigrant Strike" May 1st in New Haven, festivities including the Maypole dance, 4,000 people in a die-in to protest the war, a speech by John Wilhelm the national president of the UNITE *** HERE union and the march of thousands of people though New Haven streets.

Show #119 "Massive NYC March" 12 minutes of the banners and signs of the April 29 anti-war march in New York City. On the spot interviews with a number of marchers including Madea Benjamin of Code Pink. Interview with Inea Bushnaq about a unique exhibit of Palestinian art on view in May in New York City. Interviews with two men from Farmers for Peace. Heller disses the New York Times for its lack of coverage of the rally.

Show #116 "No Human Being is Illegal" Coverage of the beginning of the Immigrant Rights Demo on the New Haven Green. Interviews with and Gahodery Rodriquez and Raul Rivera. The speech of Kika Matos is featured. The first half of the show is an interview with Anna Baltzer who wrote a book "Witness in Palestine" about her visits to the Occupied Territories. It concentrates on her descriptions of the sufferings of daily life.

Show #111 "Rachel Corrie Remembered" Corrie was killed 3/16/03. You will see video of Gaza the day after Rachel Corrie was murdered from a British documentary maker including the home she was defending. Also Jason McGahan on Saturday's big anti-war demo in New Haven and interviews with striking Teamsters at Sikorsky

Show #110 "March 18 is Coming" Activists involved in planning the great New Haven rally talk about what's coming. Rally in Middletown to protest the war caps Activism 103 training. Scott Ritter talks about Bush and Iraq. Dahr Jamail tells about accounts of torture told to him during his months in Iraq.

Show #108 "The Settlers' Reign of Terror" Shocking video of settlers in Hebron attacking Palestinians and human rights workers. Also interview with Professor Hazza Abu Rabi about his exhibition of rare photos of old Jerusalem. Announcement of March 18 demo in New Haven and some video from last year's march

Show #107 "Mocking Bush" a little video from the "Drive Out the Bush Regime" demo in New Haven, interview with Paula Panzarella who went to the DC demo, also part of Scott Ritter talk about Iraq and how Clinton lied and lied

Show #106 "The Harvard Interviews" With Munir Germanus of Friends of Sabeel, Alice Rothchild, Daniel Moss, and Israeli army officer Rami Kaplan at the "Israel-Palestine 'Where Do We Go From Here'" conference at Harvard in Dec. 2004. Featuring Kathy Kelly's harrowing account of her attempt to rescue Palestinians in Jenin in 2002.

Show #105 "Ritter Again Denies Iran Nukes" Interview with Scott Ritter before his talk on Jan. 24 in West Hartford. Featuring a talk by Major Rami Kaplan, Israeli Defense Forces (Res.) on organizing military resister in Israel

Show #103 "Collaboration with Fascists" In time for Jan. 27 UN Holocaust Remembearnace Day, Lenni Brenner's talk at the New Haven library in 2003 in which he told about Zionist leaders making deals with fascists and Nazis in the interwar period and how one group, the Stern Gang even tried to collaborate witht the Nazis in 1940! [Brenner's full talk is already online at thestruggle.org ] Also Scott Ritter saying categorically that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program.

Show #102 "She Won't Let Bush Hide her Son's Death" Nadia McCaffrey talks about her son's death in Iraq and her decision to call the press when his coffin was flown back to the U.S. Ray McGovern, retired CIA agent, on how Saddam changed from the "contained" column back to "meance" overnight.

Show #101 "Kathy Kelly in Baghdad" Anti-war hero Kathy Kelly talks about what it was like to be in Baghadad during the Shock and Awe invasion, Angela Goldstein talks about the desperate conditions of Palestinians in her home for 24 years, Israel.

# Show 100 "Sports and Protest" We feature a talk given by sports columnist David Zirin who spoke at Southern CT State University in December. He talks about the most hated man in sports in the 1960's (Muhammad Ali), the disgrace of the construction of the New Orleans Superdome, and athletes today who buck the system like Eitan Thomas who spoke at the Sept. 24th demo in DC.

Show #98 "The Lieberman Demo" Mini-demo in front of Joseph Lieberman's home that we're told even was mentioned on national news. Also a large portion of Dennis Kyne's talk at SCSU. Kyne is a 15 year army veteran, fought in Desert Storm, partially disabled from deplete uranium and determined foe of the radioactive poison. Heller ridicules Lieberman's fantastic claim that Bush's Iraq war is supported by 25 million Iraqis. Proposes the war be called the Bush-Lieberman war.

Show #97 "Norman Finkelstein: The Main Event" Finkelstein demolishes Alan Dershowitz. Also Brenden Smith co-editor of "In the Name of Democracy, American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond" talks about horrors in Iraq

Show #96 "Soldiers and Uranium" Interview with Dennis Kyne at SCSU in November about the DU he says injured him and is sickening others in the '91 and '03 invasions of Iraq. Also Norman Finkelstein disputes the New Anti-Semitism. Also Bruce Martin on the court decision ordering a new trial for the Cuban 5.

Show #95 "Irish Anti-War Trial" Kathy Kelly back from Ireland talks about the Plowshare Pitstop trial where activists used hammers to disable a U.S. plane that was being used in the aggression against Iraq. She talks about their trial. Also Norman Finkelstein about how the facts of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict are really not difficult to understand or controversial at all.

how #94 "The Gaza SHOW" Israeli activist Sergio Yahni talks about the fake drama of the settler withdrawal from Gaza. More of Norman Finkelstein talk at Yale on Oct. 20. In this section he talks about his first expose, that of the Joan Peters book that had claimed there were almost no Palestinians living in Palestine until the Zionist settlers developed the land!

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