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On the Media host Brooke Gladstone, technical director Dylan Keefe and producer Michael Vuolo in Moscow. (Dylan Keefe/WNYC)From Russia, With Love
NPR’s Brooke Gladstone, host of On the Media, joins us live from Moscow. She’ll report on the deterioration of press freedoms under Vladimir Putin and why so few Russians seem to care. Also, more on NYC policing, how to fix the broken student loan business; a school for non-profit activists from around the world; and Time magazine’s Bobby Ghosh from Baghdad.
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A Reversal on Police Videotaping
WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly on why federal judge Charles S. Haight changed his mind on police taping of public gatherings, and what it will mean for free expression in New York City and Manuel Mirabal, president of the National Puerto Rican Coalition, a public policy organization, talks about the arrest made on Sunday at the Puerto Rican parade.
From Russia With Love
Brooke Gladstone, the co-host and managing editor of On The Media, calls in from Moscow to discuss Russian democracy.
You can read On The Media's blog from Russia here.
View of the News in Baghdad
Bobby Ghosh, Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine, talks about what is on his news radar in Baghdad.
Students' Aid
Stephen Burd, senior research fellow in the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation and Anya Kamenetz who writes for the Village Voice and is the author of Generation Debt: Why Now Is A Terrible Time to Be Young (newly out in paperback) discuss the student loan scandal and reform efforts.
Stephen Burd’s webpage at New America Foundation
Anya Kamenetz’s website
Aid Students
Roxana Ávila-Harper, professor at the Escuela de Artes Dramáticas of the Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro and artistic director and producer for the Teatro Abya Yala and Ahmed Fadeel, HIV/AIDS training officer, United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and Ms. Svetlana Yakimenko, newly Independent States director for Project Kesher in the Russian Federation,
are all in New York taking part in a training program for non-profit organizations throughout the world.
Ford Motor Company International Fellowship
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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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!- Comments [15]
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!- Comments [172]
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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