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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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    Women on the Move

    “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.

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)
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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

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!

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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.