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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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  • After seeing rebels kill his father, Bashir (who did not want to reveal his identity) escaped the bloody civil war in his native Sierra Leone.
    After seeing rebels kill his father, Bashir escaped the bloody civil war in his native Sierra Leone. (Piotr Redlinski for WNYC.org)

    Feet In Two Worlds: Immigrants In A Global City

    New Yorkers thrive amid multiple hybrid cultures bridging east and west, north and south. Meanwhile, millions of city residents have their ears and eyes attuned to their home countries, to their families, politics, cultural life and the flow of money across borders. This forum at The New School features discussions exploring transnational life and culture in post-9/11 New York.

Feet In Two Worlds: Immigrants In A Global City, Part I

Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC Reporter
and
Garry Pierre-Pierre, Editor, The Haitian Times
» more about The Haitian Times
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Chung Wha Hong, Deputy Director, New York Immigration Coalition
» more about the New York Immigration Coalition
and
Robert C. Smith, Associate Professor at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs, and author, Mexican New York: Transnational Worlds of New Immigrants (University of California, 2005),
» more about his book

» More on Feet in Two Worlds

Feet In Two Worlds: Immigrants In A Global City, Part II

Arun Venugopal, reporter, India Abroad
and
DJ Rekha, creator of the Feet In Two Worlds soundtrack
» more about DJ Rekha
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German Perez, visual artist

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.