Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007

TTT#26-Progressives

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Fifty years of creeping conservatism has created a mountain for progressives to climb to stop the slide into racism, sexism, increasing economic disparity, an education wasteland, moribund healthcare, and political corruption.Can we push that rock up to preserve democracy and install the promises of our founding documents?
TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen talk with seasoned and beloved political and social activists and scholars in whom the fires of freedom still burn hotly.

GUESTS: KENNETH TILSEN – Attorney and public advocate for such high profile conflicts as Wounded Knee, the Minnesota Eight and the Powerline protestors; LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK – Native Activist and Communications Consultant; MARV DAVIDOV – lifelong anti-war advocate and corporate critic, founder of The Honeywell Project protesting local manufacture of bombs and nuclear weaponry; TOM O’CONNELL, PhD. – Professor of Political Science, Metropolitan State University, whose dissertation, “Toward the Cooperative Commonwealth: An Introductory History of the Farmer-Labor Movement in Minnesota (1917-1948)” examines the roots of Minnesota’s progressive politics.

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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007

TTT#25-WaterPollution

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Are we unintentionally polluting our river and streams with our fertilizers, lawn shavings and leaves? How does the urban run-off contribute to the other pollution entering the Metro Area from agricultural products and waste?
TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen talk with state experts and young scholars about the pollution we all add to the waters of our state and region with our discarded leaves and grasses and the chemicals we use to keep them green. GUESTS: PAUL WOTZKA, Hydrologist, water quality specialist, late of Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Whistleblower on atrazine run-off and dangers of corn-cultivated ethanol; PATRICK MOORE, Executive Director, Clean up The River Environment (CURE), Montevideo, MN; TWIN CITIES ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE STUDENTS reporting on urban nonpoint pollution (run-off) – Aura Scherbel and Zach Wilkowski (Teacher: Liz Scheidel).

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Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007

TTT#24-Veterans/HUAC

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When the gear comes off and discipline and alertness wane, veterans have to live with what their humanity had to stuff while killing. Record suicides, marriage break-ups, homelessness and addiction are plaguing returning warriors.
TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen talk with local veterans and officials assigned to their health and re-entry to discuss how “supporting the troops” doesn’t always extend to their lives after combat. GUESTS: MAJ. CYNTHIA RASMUSSEN, RN MSN CANP – Army Combat Stress Officer/Sexual Assault Response Coordinator; GUY GAMBILL – Veteran, Gulf War I, and Advocacy Coordinator Council on Crime and Justice; SSGT. CHERISHA SANDERS, Iraq War Medic; and SpFC Isaac Schugel, MP, USAR.
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STEALTH FASCISM? HUAC REDUX? House Members Vote to Criminalize Dissent! (HR 1955)
The US House has voted 400+ to few to create a new 50s-style witch-hunting National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism. How did such a radical measure pass with the support of our DFL representatives? We’ll ask them – if they’ll answer. GUESTS: PETER ERLINDER – Constitutional Law Expert/Law Professor, Wm. Mitchell. INVITED but not appearing: US REP. KEITH ELLISON and US REP. BETTY McCOLLUM.

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Wednesday, Dec 05, 2007

TTT#23-10-O'clock News

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DEC. 5: THE LOCAL MEDIA CRISIS: How the 10 O’clock News has Distracted Us from Citizenship

TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen talk with local media observers about the damage broadcast and print media have done to drive citizens away from news and knowledge of their communities and governments, creating instead a consumer culture of celebrity and distraction instead of civic affairs. On the street and in-café interviews with news consumers conducted by KFAI intern Sonia Sultan GUESTS: VIVIAN JENKINS NELSEN: President/CEO of The Inter-Race Institute; JANE KIRTLEY, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law; GARY GILSON, former Executive Director, Minnesota News Council, former host of tpt news/public affairs shows and more.

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