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The Brian Lehrer Show / September 01, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, September 01, 2006
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  • The Oval at Stuyvesant Town
    The Oval at Stuyvesant Town

    Out Of My Price Range

    The sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is casting a big spotlight on the uncertain future of middle class housing. What does it mean for New York that one of its biggest affordable housing developments is now on the market--and at a luxury price? Also: What Have We Learned about Militant Islam, Service Employees International Union leader Andy Stern on organizing workers after they quit the AFL-CIO, and your calls.

What Have We Learned: Wahhabism and Militant Islam

Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Professor in Middle East and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College and author, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Harcourt 2006) and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge University Press, September 2005)
and
Charles Allen, historian of the British colonial period and author, God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad (Da Capo Press, 2006)
-on the roots of the so-called Wahhabists and their influence on al Qaeda

» more on Journey of the Jihadist
» more on God’s Terrorists

Talk of the (Stuy) Town

Janny Scott, reporter for The New York Times
- on the sale of Stuyvesant Town

» 'For Sale' Sign on Complex Complicates Housing Policy by Janny Scott in The New York Times

Stern Worlds

Andy Stern- President of SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
- discussed the split in the labor movement a year later.

Open Phones

Listeners call in responding to Andy Stern's assertions the employer-based health care is dead.

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.

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.