The Brian Lehrer Show

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Women on the Move

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

“Women’s issues” are magnified for undocumented women immigrants who often have little protection from domestic violence, employer exploitation and family dislocation. In part 15 of The Border immigration series, listeners voted for a look at the particular problems facing women who migrate. Also: it’s the Daily News versus the New York Post on the new Bravo series Tabloid Wars and an analysis of the military side of the Israel/Lebanon conflict.

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A Military Perspective

Colonel Sam Gardiner, retired Air Force colonel who has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College
- provides military analysis of Israel's attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Black, White and Read All Over

Belisa Balaban, executive director of Tabloid Wars
and
Ted Skillman, executive director of Tabloid Wars
- on the documentary "Tabloid Wars"
and
Kerry Burke, city reporter for the New York Daily News
- on his work for a New York City tabloid

» Tabloid Wars on Bravo

The Border: Women and Immigration

Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, author and co-editor with Barbara Ehrenreich, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Granta Books, 2003)
and
Joanne Lin, senior staff attorney at Legal Momentum, a legal advocacy organization
and
Aarti Shahani, co-director and organizer for Families for Freedom, an advocacy organization for immigrants facing deportation
- on the particular issues facing women in the immigration debate

» The Border main page and Flickr photo project
» Professor Hochschild’s page at UC-Berkeley
» Joanne Lin’s bio
» Families For Freedom homepage

In the Dark

Bob Hennelly, WNYC reporter
and
Sewell Chan, New York Times reporter
and
Ashok Gupta, air and energy program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council
- on the latest on the Queens blackout and an update on the country's energy supply

» Con Ed Faced Critical Choice on Shutdown