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2008-06-21 John Loretz, Program Director of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, explained
why he believes America's nuclear arsenal is making us less safe, and provided a roadmap to disarmament. Click to
listen, right-click to download.
2008-06-21 Steve Boston talked about his book "How to Defeat al Quaeda & Win the War on Terror" Click to listen,
right-click to download.
2008-06-14 Just in time for Father's Day - Ned Holstein, Founder of Fathers and Families, a father's rights organization,
talked about how father's get a raw deal when it comes to child custody and support rulings in the state of MA and
nationally. He also described the shame and depression that fathers go through when separated from their children,
which explains why they often emotionally and physically distance themselves from their children. Sam pushed back a
bit and suggested that fathers, being the adults, need to recognize that they need to stay in touch, regardless of
easy or hard their former spouse makes it, and that some of these fathers resent the support given to children
because the spouse benefits from it.
2008-06-14 How do we know what is real? Why does Math work? How does it work? Doesn't it, just, work? Tom
Clark, moderator of the Philosophy Cafe at the Harvard Book Store helped us get it all sorted out.
2008-05-31 Robin Dahlberg, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, talked about her new report
"Locking Up Our Children: The Secure Detention of Massachusetts Youth After Arraignment and Before Adjudication"
2008-05-17 Tom Clark, moderator of the Philosophy Cafe at The Harvard Bookstore, explained behavioral economics
and how rational we aren't (it turns out!). Click to listen, right-click to download.
2008-05-17 Mark Alston-Follonsbee, Executive Director of the Somerville Homeless Coalition gives us a brief update on
what they're up to. Click to listen, right-click to download.
2008-05-10 Dedrick Muhammed, author of the report 40 Years Later: The Unrealized Dream, a project of The Institute
for Policy Studies, joined us to talk about the report, and the state of inequality in America. We also asked him about
his views on how race is an issue in the Presidential race. See www.inequality.org. Muhammad is the Senior
Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Muhammad was the former
National Field Director for Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network. Click here to listen; right-click here to
download.
2008-05-10 Wayne Madsen, author of the book Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day: The Internet Irregulars vs.
The Powers That Be!, joins us to explain why he believes the Bush/Cheney government is attempting to dismantle
the last vestiges of our Republic, describe the "deceitful and arrogant fascist corruption of George Bush's 21st century
America", and explain how he went from a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy working at the National Security Agency's
National Communication Security Assessment Center set up by President Reagan in 1985 to an anti-war activitst
wrting about the fascist tendencies of the White House. Click here to listen; right-click here to download.
2008-05-03 Dr. Ana Julia Jatar - Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F Kennedy Center of
Government, Harvard University - discussed Hugo Chavez in Venezuela - is he a threat to the United States and/or
other countries in the region? How does he compare to Fidel Castro? What is the difference between a freedom
fighter and a terrorist? What should US foreign policy be towards Venezuela? Which of the US Presidential candidates
have articulated the best policies towards Venezuela? Jatar is a leading spokesperson of the democratic opposition in
Venezuela. She was a co-host on CNN en Español, served in the Venezuelan government, and has written a book on
Cuba, among other things. Click here to listen. Right-click here to download the file.
2008-04-26 Tony Schinella, Journalist and Editor of Politizine.com was back to guest co-host - we talked about the
election and what was in the news.
2008-04-19 Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain, Harvard University, told us about the relationship between punk rock
and humanism - Greg Graffin, the lead singer and songwriter for seminal punk band Bad Religion, will receive the 2008
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. Graffin, who is also a life sciences professor at UCLA
and an expert in religious belief among scientists, will speak about his experience in music and science and his views
on humanism in general. The award, presented last year to novelist Salman Rushdie, is sponsored by the Humanist
Chaplaincy and Harvard Secular Society. Learn more here: http://www.harvardhumanist.org/2008/02/26/announcing-
2008-cultural-humanism-awardee-greg-graffin/. Click here to listen.
2008-04-12 Tom Clark, Director of the Center for Naturalism, is Moderator of the Philosophy Cafe at the Harvard
Square Bookstore, formerly known as the Philosophy Cafe at Davis Square which met each month at McIntyre and
Moore Booksellers for the past five years. McIntyre and Moore is moving to new digs which can't accommodate the
group, so a regular attendee who couldn't bear to see it end brought Clark and the Harvard Bookstore together.
2008-04-12 Dr. Lobsang Sangay came back to provide an update on what is happening in Tibet as well as explain what
he learned about the Chinese in the course of organizing conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars. He was
joined by Dhondup Phunkhang, another child of Tibetan exiles, who told us what it is like to be connected to a
country he has never visited, to have half-siblings he has never met, and why he remains committed to this issue. Dr.
Sangay is the first Tibetan to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Law School. He accomplished this in 2004, focusing
his dissertation research on “Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet’s Government-in-
Exile.” While at Harvard he organized 5 unprecedented conference between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, including a
rare meeting between the Dalai Lama and 35 mainland Chinese scholars in 2003. Currently a Senior Fellow at the East
Asian Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School, Dr. Singe is a regular consultant on Tibetan issues for major news
media, including the BBC, the Washington Post, Boston Globe and TIME magazine. See www.bostontibet.org for more
information.
2008-04-05 Craig Sandler, owner and General Manager of State House News Service, discussed why the Deval Patrick
book deal is so bad for him politically, how and why DiMasi won on the casino bill, and what's in store for
Massachusetts (and Patrick) economically. Click here to listen.
2008-04-05 Dr. Marc Sommers provided his insights about African youth - why they aren't the dangerous potential
terrorists everyone makes them out to be. In fact, Dr. Sommers makes the argument that given the lack of resources
and dangerous conditions inflicted upon African teenagers and young people, it is astonishing how peaceful they are.
Click here to listen. Dr. Sommers is an Associate Research Professor of Humanitarian Studies with the Institute of
Human Security at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He regularly works as an international consultant, and is a
Research Fellow with Boston University’s African Studies Center. Dr. Sommers is currently finalizing his seventh book,
entitled “Manhood, Money and Food: Youth in Rwanda,” and is carrying out research on the role of popular culture on
youth lives during Sierra Leone’s civil war. His first book, Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania,
received the 2003 Margaret Mead Award.
2008-03-29 Dr. Lobsang Sangay, explained the recent explosion of resistance in Tibet. Dr. Sangay is the first Tibetan
to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Law School. He accomplished this in 2004, focusing his dissertation research on
“Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet’s Government-in-Exile.” While at Harvard he
organized 5 unprecedented conference between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, including a rare meeting between the
Dalai Lama and 35 mainland Chinese scholars in 2003. Currently a Senior Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program
of Harvard Law School, Dr. Singe is a regular consultant on Tibetan issues for major news media, including the BBC,
the Washington Post, Boston Globe and TIME magazine. See www.bostontibet.org for more information. Click here
to listen.
2008-03-29 Michael German, ACLU National Security Policy Counsel and former undercover FBI agent who infiltrated
neo-Nazi Terrorist groups in the United States, explained Fusion Centers - centers of data gathering that are raising
serious privacy issues at a time when new technology, government powers and zeal in the "war on terrorism" are
combining to threaten Americans' privacy at an unprecedented level. We also talked about his book "Thinking Like A
Terrorist" which provides unique insights into why terrorism is such a persistent and difficult problem why the U.S.
approach to counterterrorism isn't working. Click here to listen.
2008-03-22 Robin Bergman, Alan Frankel, George Barrett, and Marc Sacks of www.bostonprogressivetalk.net joined
us to share their experiences at FCC hearings (George and Marc were at the one where Comcast was busted hiring
placeholders to fill the room), why media reform is such a big issue, and why they've decided to devote their time to
it. Click here to listen.
2008-03-08 State Senator Pamela Resor (D - Acton) and Isa Woldeguiorguis of Jane Doe Inc. - discussed gaps in the
law protecting targets of stalkers, and legislation they are sponsoring to address these gaps: 1) protection even if the
target does not have a substantial relationship with the stalker, 2) protection from being evicted when being stalked
or harrassed, and 3) protection from being penalized in the workplace if time-off is necessary to deal with these
issues (such as having to move to safety, go to court, etc.) To listen, click here (or right-click to download file.)
2008-02-16 George Mokray; writer of Solarray and a diary on Daily Kos - discussed why Solar IS Civil Defense. George
has been passionate about solar energy for 35 years and has demonstrated techniques to more than 250,000 people.
We talked about current practical applications for solar energy here in the US, in the military, and in developing
countries. To listen, click here (or right-click to download file).
2008-02-02 Tony Schinella; Journalist and Editor of Politizine.com - discussed Super Tuesday, voting ethics, the
Edwards effect, poll results for Dems and Repubs, and Ralph Nader.
2008-02-02 James Otieno, Kenyan-born business executive turned philanthropist - discussed the recent events in
Kenya - their root causes, his experiences in his frequent travels to the country, his plans to devote his energies to
helping Kenya and other sub-saharan countries develop and prosper. James has over twenty years of experience in
executive compensation, board of director compensation, general compensation, benefits and human resources. He
has many years of experience advising, consulting and working directly with boards and executive management in
matters regarding governance, total rewards, talent recruitment and retention. In addition, James is an
advisor/mentor to many aspiring college and university students from Kenya and provides financial support to a
number of them.James has traveled to Kenya repeatedly for most of his life, and his career at Hewlett Packard has
taken him throughout the globe.
2008-01-19 Toni K. Troop, Director of Development and Public Relations, Jane Doe Inc. - discussed the Randy Moss
restraining order case - should he be suspended from playing in the crucial AFC Championship game prior to the court
hearing on January 28.
2008-01-12 Don Leka, Attorney and Musician - discussed the legal profession and a new approach called 'collaborative
law'
2008-01-05 Tony Schinella; Journalist and Editor of Politizine.com - discussed NH primary before and after
2007-12-21 Cheryl Jacques, leader in the gay civil rights movement and former MA State Senator and Jennifer Crisler,
Executive Director of the Family Equality Council, which is the national advocacy organization committed to security
family equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer parents, guardians, and allies. Discussed the state of
the gay civil rights movement and which presidential candidates' positions were most and least favorable for issues
related to these families.
2007-12-15 Andres Silva, Senior Loan Officer at ACCION - microfinance: lending money to poor people all over the
world to help them work their way out of poverty, including here in the Boston area.
2007-12-08 Craig Sandler, Owner and General Manager, State House News Service
2007-12-01 Mark Alston-Follansbee, Executive Director of the Somerville Homeless Coalition
To listen, click here (or right-click to download file).
2007-11-24 Sam Clark, ScD Public Health, Researcher, Ethiopia
2007-11-17 Tom Clark, Director, Center for Naturalism
2007-11-17 Kate Moriarty, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees; Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
why he believes America's nuclear arsenal is making us less safe, and provided a roadmap to disarmament. Click to
listen, right-click to download.
2008-06-21 Steve Boston talked about his book "How to Defeat al Quaeda & Win the War on Terror" Click to listen,
right-click to download.
2008-06-14 Just in time for Father's Day - Ned Holstein, Founder of Fathers and Families, a father's rights organization,
talked about how father's get a raw deal when it comes to child custody and support rulings in the state of MA and
nationally. He also described the shame and depression that fathers go through when separated from their children,
which explains why they often emotionally and physically distance themselves from their children. Sam pushed back a
bit and suggested that fathers, being the adults, need to recognize that they need to stay in touch, regardless of
easy or hard their former spouse makes it, and that some of these fathers resent the support given to children
because the spouse benefits from it.
2008-06-14 How do we know what is real? Why does Math work? How does it work? Doesn't it, just, work? Tom
Clark, moderator of the Philosophy Cafe at the Harvard Book Store helped us get it all sorted out.
2008-05-31 Robin Dahlberg, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, talked about her new report
"Locking Up Our Children: The Secure Detention of Massachusetts Youth After Arraignment and Before Adjudication"
2008-05-17 Tom Clark, moderator of the Philosophy Cafe at The Harvard Bookstore, explained behavioral economics
and how rational we aren't (it turns out!). Click to listen, right-click to download.
2008-05-17 Mark Alston-Follonsbee, Executive Director of the Somerville Homeless Coalition gives us a brief update on
what they're up to. Click to listen, right-click to download.
2008-05-10 Dedrick Muhammed, author of the report 40 Years Later: The Unrealized Dream, a project of The Institute
for Policy Studies, joined us to talk about the report, and the state of inequality in America. We also asked him about
his views on how race is an issue in the Presidential race. See www.inequality.org. Muhammad is the Senior
Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Muhammad was the former
National Field Director for Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network. Click here to listen; right-click here to
download.
2008-05-10 Wayne Madsen, author of the book Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day: The Internet Irregulars vs.
The Powers That Be!, joins us to explain why he believes the Bush/Cheney government is attempting to dismantle
the last vestiges of our Republic, describe the "deceitful and arrogant fascist corruption of George Bush's 21st century
America", and explain how he went from a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy working at the National Security Agency's
National Communication Security Assessment Center set up by President Reagan in 1985 to an anti-war activitst
wrting about the fascist tendencies of the White House. Click here to listen; right-click here to download.
2008-05-03 Dr. Ana Julia Jatar - Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F Kennedy Center of
Government, Harvard University - discussed Hugo Chavez in Venezuela - is he a threat to the United States and/or
other countries in the region? How does he compare to Fidel Castro? What is the difference between a freedom
fighter and a terrorist? What should US foreign policy be towards Venezuela? Which of the US Presidential candidates
have articulated the best policies towards Venezuela? Jatar is a leading spokesperson of the democratic opposition in
Venezuela. She was a co-host on CNN en Español, served in the Venezuelan government, and has written a book on
Cuba, among other things. Click here to listen. Right-click here to download the file.
2008-04-26 Tony Schinella, Journalist and Editor of Politizine.com was back to guest co-host - we talked about the
election and what was in the news.
2008-04-19 Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain, Harvard University, told us about the relationship between punk rock
and humanism - Greg Graffin, the lead singer and songwriter for seminal punk band Bad Religion, will receive the 2008
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. Graffin, who is also a life sciences professor at UCLA
and an expert in religious belief among scientists, will speak about his experience in music and science and his views
on humanism in general. The award, presented last year to novelist Salman Rushdie, is sponsored by the Humanist
Chaplaincy and Harvard Secular Society. Learn more here: http://www.harvardhumanist.org/2008/02/26/announcing-
2008-cultural-humanism-awardee-greg-graffin/. Click here to listen.
2008-04-12 Tom Clark, Director of the Center for Naturalism, is Moderator of the Philosophy Cafe at the Harvard
Square Bookstore, formerly known as the Philosophy Cafe at Davis Square which met each month at McIntyre and
Moore Booksellers for the past five years. McIntyre and Moore is moving to new digs which can't accommodate the
group, so a regular attendee who couldn't bear to see it end brought Clark and the Harvard Bookstore together.
2008-04-12 Dr. Lobsang Sangay came back to provide an update on what is happening in Tibet as well as explain what
he learned about the Chinese in the course of organizing conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars. He was
joined by Dhondup Phunkhang, another child of Tibetan exiles, who told us what it is like to be connected to a
country he has never visited, to have half-siblings he has never met, and why he remains committed to this issue. Dr.
Sangay is the first Tibetan to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Law School. He accomplished this in 2004, focusing
his dissertation research on “Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet’s Government-in-
Exile.” While at Harvard he organized 5 unprecedented conference between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, including a
rare meeting between the Dalai Lama and 35 mainland Chinese scholars in 2003. Currently a Senior Fellow at the East
Asian Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School, Dr. Singe is a regular consultant on Tibetan issues for major news
media, including the BBC, the Washington Post, Boston Globe and TIME magazine. See www.bostontibet.org for more
information.
2008-04-05 Craig Sandler, owner and General Manager of State House News Service, discussed why the Deval Patrick
book deal is so bad for him politically, how and why DiMasi won on the casino bill, and what's in store for
Massachusetts (and Patrick) economically. Click here to listen.
2008-04-05 Dr. Marc Sommers provided his insights about African youth - why they aren't the dangerous potential
terrorists everyone makes them out to be. In fact, Dr. Sommers makes the argument that given the lack of resources
and dangerous conditions inflicted upon African teenagers and young people, it is astonishing how peaceful they are.
Click here to listen. Dr. Sommers is an Associate Research Professor of Humanitarian Studies with the Institute of
Human Security at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He regularly works as an international consultant, and is a
Research Fellow with Boston University’s African Studies Center. Dr. Sommers is currently finalizing his seventh book,
entitled “Manhood, Money and Food: Youth in Rwanda,” and is carrying out research on the role of popular culture on
youth lives during Sierra Leone’s civil war. His first book, Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania,
received the 2003 Margaret Mead Award.
2008-03-29 Dr. Lobsang Sangay, explained the recent explosion of resistance in Tibet. Dr. Sangay is the first Tibetan
to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Law School. He accomplished this in 2004, focusing his dissertation research on
“Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet’s Government-in-Exile.” While at Harvard he
organized 5 unprecedented conference between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, including a rare meeting between the
Dalai Lama and 35 mainland Chinese scholars in 2003. Currently a Senior Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program
of Harvard Law School, Dr. Singe is a regular consultant on Tibetan issues for major news media, including the BBC,
the Washington Post, Boston Globe and TIME magazine. See www.bostontibet.org for more information. Click here
to listen.
2008-03-29 Michael German, ACLU National Security Policy Counsel and former undercover FBI agent who infiltrated
neo-Nazi Terrorist groups in the United States, explained Fusion Centers - centers of data gathering that are raising
serious privacy issues at a time when new technology, government powers and zeal in the "war on terrorism" are
combining to threaten Americans' privacy at an unprecedented level. We also talked about his book "Thinking Like A
Terrorist" which provides unique insights into why terrorism is such a persistent and difficult problem why the U.S.
approach to counterterrorism isn't working. Click here to listen.
2008-03-22 Robin Bergman, Alan Frankel, George Barrett, and Marc Sacks of www.bostonprogressivetalk.net joined
us to share their experiences at FCC hearings (George and Marc were at the one where Comcast was busted hiring
placeholders to fill the room), why media reform is such a big issue, and why they've decided to devote their time to
it. Click here to listen.
2008-03-08 State Senator Pamela Resor (D - Acton) and Isa Woldeguiorguis of Jane Doe Inc. - discussed gaps in the
law protecting targets of stalkers, and legislation they are sponsoring to address these gaps: 1) protection even if the
target does not have a substantial relationship with the stalker, 2) protection from being evicted when being stalked
or harrassed, and 3) protection from being penalized in the workplace if time-off is necessary to deal with these
issues (such as having to move to safety, go to court, etc.) To listen, click here (or right-click to download file.)
2008-02-16 George Mokray; writer of Solarray and a diary on Daily Kos - discussed why Solar IS Civil Defense. George
has been passionate about solar energy for 35 years and has demonstrated techniques to more than 250,000 people.
We talked about current practical applications for solar energy here in the US, in the military, and in developing
countries. To listen, click here (or right-click to download file).
2008-02-02 Tony Schinella; Journalist and Editor of Politizine.com - discussed Super Tuesday, voting ethics, the
Edwards effect, poll results for Dems and Repubs, and Ralph Nader.
2008-02-02 James Otieno, Kenyan-born business executive turned philanthropist - discussed the recent events in
Kenya - their root causes, his experiences in his frequent travels to the country, his plans to devote his energies to
helping Kenya and other sub-saharan countries develop and prosper. James has over twenty years of experience in
executive compensation, board of director compensation, general compensation, benefits and human resources. He
has many years of experience advising, consulting and working directly with boards and executive management in
matters regarding governance, total rewards, talent recruitment and retention. In addition, James is an
advisor/mentor to many aspiring college and university students from Kenya and provides financial support to a
number of them.James has traveled to Kenya repeatedly for most of his life, and his career at Hewlett Packard has
taken him throughout the globe.
2008-01-19 Toni K. Troop, Director of Development and Public Relations, Jane Doe Inc. - discussed the Randy Moss
restraining order case - should he be suspended from playing in the crucial AFC Championship game prior to the court
hearing on January 28.
2008-01-12 Don Leka, Attorney and Musician - discussed the legal profession and a new approach called 'collaborative
law'
2008-01-05 Tony Schinella; Journalist and Editor of Politizine.com - discussed NH primary before and after
2007-12-21 Cheryl Jacques, leader in the gay civil rights movement and former MA State Senator and Jennifer Crisler,
Executive Director of the Family Equality Council, which is the national advocacy organization committed to security
family equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer parents, guardians, and allies. Discussed the state of
the gay civil rights movement and which presidential candidates' positions were most and least favorable for issues
related to these families.
2007-12-15 Andres Silva, Senior Loan Officer at ACCION - microfinance: lending money to poor people all over the
world to help them work their way out of poverty, including here in the Boston area.
2007-12-08 Craig Sandler, Owner and General Manager, State House News Service
2007-12-01 Mark Alston-Follansbee, Executive Director of the Somerville Homeless Coalition
To listen, click here (or right-click to download file).
2007-11-24 Sam Clark, ScD Public Health, Researcher, Ethiopia
2007-11-17 Tom Clark, Director, Center for Naturalism
2007-11-17 Kate Moriarty, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees; Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
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