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The Brian Lehrer Show / August 24, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, August 24, 2005
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  • Camping in Crawford

    Protester-mom Cindy Sheehan is not the only parent of an Iraq war soldier who’s spending part of this August outside the President’s ranch. Another is Sue Niederer, a New Jersey mother whose 24 year-old son was killed in Iraq last year.

Second in Command

Jonathan Hicks, metro reporter for the New York Times
- on last night's public advocate candidates' debate

» "Rivals for Public Advocate Go After Gotbaum in First Debate, and She Returns the Fire" (The New York Times)

Camp Crawford

Sue Niederer, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Her son, Seth Dvorin, was killed in Iraq in February 2004.
and
Karen Meredith, member of Gold Star Families for Peace. Her son, Kenneth Ballard, was killed in Iraq in May 2004.
- share their experiences as protesters in Crawford, Texas

» Gold Star Families for Peace
» Wikipedia entry on Sue Niederer

Northeast by Southwest

Mark Moran, news director of KJZZ, a public radio station in Tempe, Arizona
and
Andrew White, director of the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School University

- how immigration is treated in the North-East compared to the South-West

» Mark Moran (KJZZ)
» Milano Graduate School's Center for New York City Affairs

Advice for Karen Hughes

Craig Charney, president of Charney Research
- has some ideas about improving America's image in the Muslim world

» Charney Research

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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