Voltaire wrote "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Turkish columnist and activist Sanar Yurdatapan has taken that statement to heart in a country where the government suppresses free speech as amatter of course. Winona went to court for shoplifting in the U.S., while in Turkey, Yurdatapan's network of celebrity artists and actors have been tried for publishing censored work under their names even when they disagreed with the original authors. Also on the show, wewantwork.com; the ethnic press on local elections; and everything you were afraid to ask about the business page.
Win-Win
William Leurs, former US ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela and president of the United Nations Association of the U.S.A., on how Bush and the UN scratched each other’s back
What Say the Ethnic Press?
Mariana Reyes, staff writer for Hoy and Gary Pierre-Pierre, publisher and editor of the Haitian Times, on local issues and election results within ethnic communities
Turkish Delight
Sanar Yurdatapan, activist and regular columnist for a Kurdish daily newspaper in Turkey, battles Turkey's repression of free speech
Work It Out
Lisa Rosevear, Emily Malatesta and Mark Seago, co-founders of Wewantwork.comon New York City’s unemployed white collar workers.
Economics Exposed
Charlie Wheelan, economics contributor for WBEZ, former Midwest correspondent for the Economist and author of Naked Economics (W.W. Norton, 2002), demystifies the dismal science
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