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The Brian Lehrer Show / May 05, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, May 05, 2006
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali

    Cage Door

    Dutch Parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote the screenplay for Theo van Gogh’s film, Submission, about the abuse of Muslim women. Van Gogh was murdered by extremists who objected to the film and Hirsi Ali has lived under the threat of death since. In her new book, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam, she calls for an Islamic Enlightenment. Also: Poets gather to craft a "New New York City Epic."

Not Submitting

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, member of Parliament in the Netherlands and author, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (Free Press, 2006)
- calls for change in Islam

» Ayaan Hirsi Ali's weblog English language version

Last Exit

George Packer, writer for the New Yorker and author, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)
- ponders an exit strategy for the US in Iraq

» George Packer's articles in the New Yorker

Song of My City

Steve Zeitlin, founding director of CityLore and one of the founding organizers of the Peoples Poetry Gathering
and
Bob Holman, poet, curator for the biennial People’s Poetry Gathering, owner of the Bowery Poetry Club, and co-author, Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, forthcoming)
and
Bushra Rehman, poet and co-editor, Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press (WA), July 2002)
and
Toni Blackman, freestyle rapper and author, Inner-course: A Plea for Real Love (Villard, 2003)

» People's Poetry Gathering
» CityLore
» Bob Holman's website
» Bushra Rehman's PEN bio

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.