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Friday, September 01, 2006

The sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is casting a big spotlight on the uncertain future of middle class housing. What does it mean for New York that one of its biggest affordable housing developments is now on the market--and at a luxury price? Also: What Have We Learned about Militant Islam, Service Employees International Union leader Andy Stern on organizing workers after they quit the AFL-CIO, and your calls.

What Have We Learned: Wahhabism and Militant Islam

Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Professor in Middle East and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College and author, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Harcourt 2006) and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge University Press, September 2005)
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Charles Allen, historian of the British colonial ...

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Talk of the (Stuy) Town

Janny Scott, reporter for The New York Times
- on the sale of Stuyvesant Town

ยป 'For Sale' Sign on Complex Complicates Housing Policy by Janny Scott in The New York Times

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Stern Worlds

Andy Stern- President of SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
- discussed the split in the labor movement a year later.

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Open Phones

Listeners call in responding to Andy Stern's assertions the employer-based health care is dead.

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