Archive for August, 2008

Greenpeace campaigns on global warming…

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

... and on next week's show we'll be featuring an interview with Drew Thomas of Greenpeace in Urbana-Champaign, where we talk about a solar-powered concert they ran in Urbana, as well as their campaign on the ground to push for better policy solutions. If you just can't wait, you can ...

Live from the DNC

Friday, August 29th, 2008

This week the focus of our show was the DNC, with Bob reporting live from Denver. However, we managed to fit in reports from Gaza and a world news bulletin, before connecting up with Bob. With Bob, we started by talking about how the DNC compared to other protest events, then ...

Georgia: behind the headlines

Monday, August 18th, 2008

On this week's show, we spent most of our time talking about Georgia, in light of the recent events there. We wanted to get beyond the headlines and usual frames of coverage, and believe we accomplished this through two approaches. First, we talked with Jodi Blumenfeld. A graduate student at ...

US energy policy: beyond Paris

Friday, August 8th, 2008

This week we focus almost exclusively on US energy policy - the show's now available on Radio4All, Audioport, and Indymedia Radio. Bob recently blogged about the topic on Huffington Post, where he framed his piece as a critique of Paris Hilton's energy policy - or rather the idea propagated in ...

A roundup of South America and the Middle-East: this week’s show now available

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The show is now on Radio4All and Audioport. This week we cover more geography than usual: We start, as usual, with the Panos Institute news bulletin. Ecuador is in the process of putting in place a ban on foreign military bases Chevron using the US Trade Representative to put pressure on Ecuador and resist ...