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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, June 11, 2007
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    Stopping Traffic

    Governor Spitzer signed an anti-human trafficking law on June 6th. NOW-NYC campaigned for the law and wants local publications to stop taking “adult” ads for what they call “modern-day slavery.” We’ll hear from NOW-NYC’s president, as well as blogger and former sex worker Audacia Ray who saw prostitution as a legitimate way to make a living. Writer Pete Hamill discusses New York during the Depression and today. Also, the week in politics, and a call-in on the effectiveness of the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy.

Hawk Talk

Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor for the Financial Times, discusses the presidential race, the battle "hotting up" between Michael Moore and Fred Thompson and Senator Joe Lieberman's call to attack Iran.

Stopping Traffic

NOW-NYC president Sonia Ossorio talks about their campaign against human sex trafficking and the advertising that supports it, then former sex worker Audacia Ray offers a different view of prostitution. She’s the executive editor of Spread magazine and the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration (Seal Press, 2007).

Naked on the Internet is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Audacia Ray will moderate a panel discussion at the Museum of Sex tonight from 7:00 - 9:00PM. Admission $10.

Writing New York

Novelist, essayist and journalist Pete Hamill talks about his new novel North River (Little, Brown & Company, 2007) set in the Depression-era New York immigrant community, and about who is telling the stories of today’s immigrants.

North River is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Pete Hamill will read and sign books at the Union Square Barnes & Noble tonight at 7PM.

Pete Hamill’s website

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The Future of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

All the Republican candidates say they support it. All the Democratic candidates say they don't. What about people actually serving in the military? We take their calls on whether or not the "don't ask don't tell" policy should be abolished.

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!

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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.

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