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U.S. Soldiers leads a house raid in Iraq. ((U.S. Air Force))
The pundits have weighed in on the Iraq War all week. We talk to someone who has just returned from the front lines—veteran (and New Yorker) David Bellavia, whose memoir, House to House, recounts his experiences in Fallujah. Also: activist Randall Robinson on Haiti after Aristide; “This is What I Eat,” a public art project in which residents of one Queens neighborhood share recipes, photographs, and thoughts about food; Congressman Charles Rangel reacts to the President's speech on Iraq; and we take calls from listeners on 9/11, 6 years later.
The NY Democratic Response to the Bush Speech
Charles Rangel, Congressman (D-NY-15th District-Upper Manhattan), responds to President Bush's address to the nation last night on a troop reduction.
Cri de Coeur
Randall Robinson, political activist, founder and past president of TransAfrica, and author, An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President (Basic Books, 2007), traces Haiti's history through what he calls a U.S.-led coup against his friend Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
An Unbroken Agony is available ...
An Unbroken Agony is available ...
Eating in Public
Artist/photographer Stephanie Diamond and community activist Luis Gomez talk about the public art project "This Is What I Eat," one of the 4 works in the Queens Museum's "Corona Plaza, Center of Everywhere" project.
Iraq: A View From the Battlefield
At the end of a week full of debate on the Iraq War, Staff Seargent David Bellavia, decorated Iraq War veteran and the author of House to House: An Epic Memoir of War (Free Press, 2007), with John R. Bruning, gives us a perspective from the field, reacts to the ...
Follow-Up Friday: Why Commemorate 9/11?
We ask our listeners to call in and tell us how or if they mark the 9/11 anniversary 6 years later. And Glenn Corbett, professor of fire science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, joins us to respond to listener questions rasied during our special 9/11 coverage this week.
Diamond and Gomez
Photographer Stephanie Diamond and community activist Luiz Gomez in our studio after discussing their public art project in Corona, Queens, on the ...
Randall Robinson
Randall Robinson, political activist and founder and past president of TransAfrica, explains Haiti's complicated history on the Brian Lehrer Show, 9/14/07.
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