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The Brian Lehrer Show / January 24, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
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  • New Orleans Artist Wendall Haynes, with French Quarter artists. He's living in the Cajundome in Lafayette with the most important possessions he rescued: his paint and pallette knives.
    New Orleans Artist Wendall Haynes, with French Quarter artists. (Beth Fertig/WNYC)

    The Color of Disaster

    Hurricane Katrina exposed many failures in federal disaster management, but it also renewed the national conversation about race and poverty in America. In his new book, Michael Eric Dyson examines the deeper meaning of the disaster by putting the experiences of New Orleanians in context with prior black migrations. Plus: What to do if you notice child abuse, a call-in about the American auto-industry, a lawsuit by immigrants deported after 9/11, and the state of homelessness in New York City.

Return Engagement

Bill Goodman, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights
-on the return of four men, deported in the wake of 9/11, to be deposed in their suit against the government

» The Center for Constitutional Rights

Homeless State

Patrick Markee, senior policy analyst at the Coalition for the Homeless
-on the state of homelessness in New York City

» The Coalition for the Homeless

Heard Through the Walls

Gail Nayowith, executive director, Citizens Committee for Children
- on when family, friends and neighbors should intervene in cases of suspected child abuse

» The Citizens Committee for Children

The Color of Disaster

Michael Eric Dyson , Professor of African American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster (Basic/Civitas, 2006)
- on the racial faultlines exposed by Hurricane Katrina

» "Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster" at Michael Eric Dyson's website

Open Phones

Listeners share their thoughts on the American car industry.

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.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

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.

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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.

Video Picks

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