Israel's Bloody Invasion; Blunt Economic Stimulus?; Recession Hits Domestic Workers

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Monday, January 12, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Israel's Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood:
Insights Into The Middle East
with
Former Ambassador Edward Peck

Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?
with
Arun Gupta, editor of the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

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Israel's Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood:
Insights Into The Middle East
with
Former Ambassador Edward Peck, Special Asst. to the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nixon Administration, Chief
of Mission in Baghdad, Carter Administration. Also served as a
Foreign Service Officer in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Egypt, &
as Ambassador in Mauritania. At the State Department he served
as Deputy Director of Covert Intelligence Programs & Director of
the Office of Egyptian Affairs. Deputy Director, White House Task
Force on Terrorism, Reagan Administration. Pres., Foreign
Services International, a consulting firm that works with
governments, businesses & educational institutions across the
world.

Ambassador Peck, recently returned from a trip to the Mideast organized
by the Council for the National Interest, discusses the media blockade that
prevents balanced information on Gaza and the West Bank reaching the
U.S. public, Israel's imprisoned of dozens of democratically elected
Hamas parliamentarians and analysis of Israel's bombardment and full
scale grand invasion of Gaza.
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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

DMU represents over 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care-
givers in NYC. Now, however, their organization is hemorrhaging members
as the growing joblessness of their employers trickles down to the number
of hires of these caregivers. Aside, from growing unemployment amongst
their members,the spike in joblessness for those remaining on the job has
fostered competition resulting in wage cuts, increased workload, and
worsening conditions on the job. Under these conditions, & excluded from
the protections of most labor law, DMU's efforts to secure a NYS Domestic
Workers Bill of Rights is even more pressing.
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Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?
with
Arun Gupta, editor of the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

While the meat has yet to be put on the skeletal frame of President-Elect
Obama's proposed stimulus package, he has revealed enough to cause
alarm for present and future beneficiaries of Medicaid and Social Security
and serious questions as to whether it will create "shovel ready" jobs and
whether its tax cuts can jump-start the sputtering economy.