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(Worldstudio)Live in the Greene Space
More working poor are crowding in with family and friends to avoid homelessness. Live from the Jerome L. Greene Performance space it’s an interactive review of the "Uncommon Economic Indicators" project and a discussion with the advocacy group Picture the Homeless. Plus, Democracy’s Living Room explores the legacy of Stonewall and the future of the LGBT rights movement.
Digesting Politics: Capitol Punishment
The Digesting Politics podcast goes live as WNYC reporters Andrea Bernstein and Elaine Rivera talk with Brian Lehrer about the mess in Albany and other local politics over breakfast.
YUEI: Doubling Up
Members of Picture the Homeless, Letitia Ledan and Russell Pinsley, talk about obtaining an apartment after being homeless, and doubling up. Steven Greenhouse helps explain how the recession is affecting the working poor.
Uncommon Economic Indicators Roundup
Steven Greenhouse, labor and workplace reporter for The New York Times and author of The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, helps explore some of the notable contributions to the Uncommon Economic Indicators website.
From Stonewall to Gay Marriage
Stonewall witnesses/participants, Danny Garvin and Tommy Lanigan Schmidt, and historian David Carter will recount the events surrounding the Stonewall rebellion.
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Kurt Andersen, host of PRI and WNYC’s Studio 360, and Mark Randall, principal of Worldstudio, a marketing and design agency, will talk about Studio 360’s gay pride flag redesign project and what the flag means.
A preview of Worldstudio's gay pride flag designs
The Gay Pride Flag Makeover Challenge flickr page
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The discussion continues with Robert Reid-Pharr, critical essayist and professor at the CUNY Graduate Center; Pauline Park, co-founder of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy(NYAGRA); Cathy Marino Thomas, board president of Marriage Equality New York; Detective Timothy Duffy, NYPD LGBT Community Liaison; JoJo Edward, FIERCE member Desiree Marshall, FIERCE lead organizer; and Kenyatta, a resident at Sylvia's Place - a homeless shelter for gay youth.
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