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Academic Sweatshop
Something is in the air in New York City, graduate teaching assistants have gone on strike at Columbia University and adjunct professors at NYU have just narrowly avoided one. In recent years universities have extended the classroom time of teaching assistants, but some feel they have not been compensated for their efforts.
A Link in the Cheney
Dahlia Lithwick Senior editor for Slate.com, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author, Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman,2003) explains the Supreme Court hearings of Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla and the Dick Cheney/Energy Task force case
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Sohail Mohammed Immigration Attorney in New Jersey says the White House is overstepping in detaining Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla
Stand-Up Pundit
Mort Sahl stand-up comedian on his long history of political stand-up comedy
Note: We do not have permission to re-air Mort Sahl’s interview, which took place at 10:41:00-10:58:59
Nickel-and-Dimed in Academia
Shannan Clark 5th year History PhD candidate at Columbia University on the need for graduate students to organize and the current strike at Columbia
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Scott Smallwood Senior Reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education covering academic labor issues on academic laborers
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Kathleen Hull Adjunct Professor at NYU; active in ACT/UAW union; co-president of NYU’s American Assoc. Of University Professors (AAUP)on the university's reliance on adjunct professors
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Alexandra Lord acting historian for the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington D.C.; co-founder of Beyond Academe website on helping PhDs find work outside academia
Saudi Flights
Mark Hosenball Investigative correspondent for Newsweek explains the evacuation of the bin laden family on September 13, 2001
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
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From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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