The "f-word" has been unfashionable among women for many years, but a new generation of declared feminists are trying to change that. They’ve dropped chants about equal pay to embrace issues like misogyny in hip hop, self-published zines, and the power of the internet. Also, city news roundup, Abu Ghraib lawsuits move ahead as the White House releases more classified papers, Seymour Hersh on Israel’s ties to the Kurds, and your nomination’s for Kerry’s running mate.
Roundup
Tom Robbins Staff Writer for the Village Voice Participates in our city and state roundtable.
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Bob Hardt Executive producer and political director, New York 1 on various city and state issues
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Bob Hardt Executive producer and political director, New York 1 on various city and state issues
Open Phones
Who? Who? Who should be the VP for Kerry?
Paper Trail
Julian Barnes chief pentagon correspondent for US News & World Report
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Chitra Ragavan chief legal correspondent for US News & World Report
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Chitra Ragavan chief legal correspondent for US News & World Report
Friends In Elevated Places
Seymour Hersh Staff Writer at the New Yorker Against All Enemies (Ballantine Books, 1998) explains Israel's connection to Iraq's Kurds
It's Not Your Mother's Feminism
Vivien Labaton Third-year law student at NYU School of Law,founding director of the Third Wave Foundation, and co-editor, The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (Anchor Books, 2004) on the next wave of feminist activism
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Dawn Lundy Martin Ph.D. candidate in English ...
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Dawn Lundy Martin Ph.D. candidate in English ...
The Treatment
Today we discussed the treatment of detainees in both Iraq and Afghanistan with Julian Barnes and Chitra Ragavan from US News and World Report. The conversation about detainees continued with Seymour Hersh from The New Yorker. Both conversations referred to the President Bush's order which can be read here.
Text of order signed by President Bush on Feb. 7, 2002, outlining treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees:
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