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Thursday, April 28, 2005
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  • Indo-Caribbean Businesses: Liberty Street, Richmond Hill, Queens
    Indo-Caribbean Businesses: Liberty Street, Richmond Hill, Queens (Asian/American Center)

    Asian in New York: From Asia From Queens

    South Asians have a reputation of being one of the most prosperous of the newest immigrant groups. But community advocates say this "model" status ignores pressing social ills, including poverty and post-9/11 discrimination. We discuss some of the challenges facing South Asians in New York, as well as a look at the younger generation's artistic and cultural response.

From Asia, From Queens: Part 1

Deepa Iyer, Executive Director of South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow, a national non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the full and equal participation by South Asians in civic and political life
» SAALT
and
Annetta Seecharran, Executive Director of South Asian Youth Action which provides South Asian youth with safe spaces
» SAYA!
and
John Liu, Democratic member of the New York City Council representing Northeast Queens
» John Liu's website
and
Madhulika Khandelwal, the Director of the Asian/American Center and Associate Professor in Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, author, Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City (Cornell University Press, 2002)
» Asian/American Center at Queens College

From Asia From Queens, Part 2

Marian Yalini Thambynayagam, a poet and performer of Sri Lankan Tamil origin, born in England and raised in Texas, and a member of Mango Tribe, a Pan-Asian women’s experimental performance group
» Mambo Collective
and
Suketu Mehta, a writer and journalist based in New York and author of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction finalist, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Knopf, 2004)
» More on Suketa Mehta
and
Vivek Bald (DJ Siraiki), a New York-based documentary filmmaker and music producer and one of the pioneers of NYC's South Asian electronic music scene and a member of VISIBLE collective
» Disappeared in America Project
» Documentary: Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
and
Mallika Dutt, the founder and executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization based in Jackson Heights and New Delhi
» BreakThrough

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

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")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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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.

Judge Sotomayor

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.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.