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Monday, August 4, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM
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From Here To Eternity:
U.S. Nuclear Policy From Hiroshima & Nagasaki Through Today
with
Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Director of Cold War Studies,
University of Southern CA. at Berkley
and
Greg Mitchell, co-author of "Hiroshima in America" &
Adviser to the Award-Winning Film "Original Child Bomb"

Exploitation of Immigrant Workers Isn't Kosher
With
Rabbi Harold Kravitz, Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, Minnetonka, MN
and
Paul Rael, Director of Hispanic Ministries, St. Bridget's Catholic
Church, Postville, Iowa

Governor Patterson Plays the Depression Card
Proposes Massive Cuts Instead of Millionaire's Tax
With
Trudi Renwick
Senior Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
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From Here To Eternity:
U.S. Nuclear Policy From Hiroshima & Nagasaki Through Today
with
Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Director of Cold War Studies,
University of Southern CA. at Berkley

Professor Hasegawa discusses why there wasn't any moral or political
basis to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, which was already determined to
surrender and why we did it.

and
Greg Mitchell, co-author of "Hiroshima in America" &
Adviser to the Award-Winning Film "Original Child Bomb"

The U.S. engaged in suppression of the film footage following the atomic
bomb attacks on Japan, and for decades afterward suppressed all film
shot in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Now, a portion of that footage will finally
reach the American public so they will be able to judge for themselves
why the authorities felt they had to suppress it, and what impact their
footage, if widely aired, might have had on the nuclear arms race -- and
the nuclear proliferation that endangers us today.
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Exploitation of Immigrant Workers Isn't Kosher
With
Rabbi Harold Kravitz, Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, Minnetonka, MN
and
Paul Rael, Director of Hispanic Ministries, St. Bridget's Catholic
Church, Postville, Iowa

Only after the barbaric raid by Federal Immigration Control & Enforcement
(ICE) police on the Kosher Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville,
Iowa in which 389 immigrant workers were sentenced to prison terms, was
the extent of exploitation within the plant revealed. It included abuse of
underage workers who worked over 12 hours a day 6 days a week, health
and safety violations, sexual harassment, and even physical abuse. Religious
leaders from the area marched on Postville recently. Jewish leaders have
set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate including the humane treatment
of workers in the definition of what is kosher.
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Governor Patterson Plays the Depression Card
Proposes Massive Cuts Instead of Millionaire's Tax
With
Trudi Renwick
Senior Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute

With references to a new Depression, NYS Governor Patters used projections
of next year's State budget deficit growing from $5 billion to $6.4 billion as call
to budget cuts. He has ignored the successful experience of the last recession
in 2002 in which taxes on those that could afford it were raised by a bi-partisan
Legislature to forestall draconian cutbacks on public services as well as
progressive voices calling for a millionaire's tax to forestall the bloodletting
of the past.

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