Monday, Jun 30, 2008

TTT#0826-SexualAssault

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JUNE 25: SEXUAL VIOLENCE & OFFENDERS - Part I: REPRESSION DRIVEN? Just what’s the big deal about sex? What DON’T we know about sex and sexual violence? This will be Part One of a series getting at the biological, emotional and political conflicts around attitudes and policies towards sex and sexual behavior. Sexuality in American society is always the hot topic, but is it deserving of the attention? And is the kind of attention it’s getting keeping it the forbidden fruit everyone wants to pluck from the tree? Is its forbidden nature driving repression, sexual violence and the politics of lifetime incarceration? What is so tempting about throwing away the key?
TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN ask some of those close to the issue just what is going on in our culturally confused notions of sex and sexual asault.
Also: A special TTT Commentary: Andy asks some questions of Archbishop Nienstadt and his erasure of St. Joan of Arc’s annual Gay Pride celebration. The text of this message follows below:

GUESTS: • DONNA DUNN – Executive Director, MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault • PHILIP VILLAUME - Criminal Defense Attorney

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Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008

TTT#0825-MediaReformReplay#1

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June 18: CONVERSATIONS WITH MEDIA REFORMERS Encore presentation of Truth to Tell’s live Media Reform Conference special featuring Amy Goodman, John Nichols and Timothy Wu. For three hectic days over the first weekend in June at the Minneapolis Convention Center, major media and literary figures came together to cogitate and expound over strategies and methods for transforming the nation’s media into a responsible Fourth Estate as once envisioned by the founders. Over two days, TTT’s Andy Driscoll interviewed more than 25 famous, infamous and often unknown media activists among the 3,500 who gathered for this 4th National Conference on Media Reform under the aegis of Free Press.net. We will air an occasional series of programs with parts of most of those interviews over the next several weeks. GUESTS: • JOHN NICHOLS - Author, Free Press co-founder and writer forThe Nation • AMY GOODMAN - Author and Democracy NOW! Host • TIM WU - Author, Net Neutrality scholar and Free Press Board Chair KFAI Radio, 90.3 Minneapolis /106.7 St. Paul / Streamed@KFAI.org A CivicMedia/Minnesota production

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Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008

TTT#0824-Wi-Fi Broadband-Commons

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The cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis have taken different approaches to closing the digital divide – and cities elsewhere in the Minnesota are exploring what is meant by the Municipal Commons. Minneapolis chose Wi-Fi Internet access in league with a private firm; St. Paul is looking at using fiber optical cable to connect citizens, and the entire range of technologies may already be obsolete with the rapid development of faster and faster connections.

TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with local techies and troubadours of the movement to close the gap between Internet haves and have-nots from both cities. GUESTS: CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL, Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative, Institute for Local Self Reliance; ERIC LAMPLAND, Principal Network Architect, Lookout Point Communications PETER FLECK, Member, Minneapolis Wi-Fi Digital Inclusion Advisory Committee and Web Manager for the Uiniversity of Minnesota's Center for Family Development

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Wednesday, Jun 04, 2008

TTT#0823-MplsAssemblies

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June 4: THE MINNEAPOLIS ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION Minneapolis City Council passed a set of regulatory and police constraints on public protests Friday, June 6, in a resolution giving police major power over sidewalk demonstrations and assemblies. Unlike the original proposal, however, the “voluntary” registration requirements passed Friday sunsets following the Republican Convention in September. The arguments against any permit processes for sidewalk gatherings are discussed as TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL interviews key players at Minneapolis City Hall.

GUESTS: COUNCILMEMBERS GARY SCHIFF and CAM GORDON APRIL KNUTSON, Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) SHERMAN WILBURN, Minneapolis (Minnesota) ACORN CHUCK SAMUELSON, Executive Director, ACLU/Minnesota PHIL DURAN, Staff Attorney, Outfront Minnesota (GLBT Advocacy)

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