Not many people know much about America’s immigration prison system run by Homeland Security (formerly the INS), but journalist Mark Dow has gone behind the scenes to some of its holding facilities. He talks about the charges that beatings, racism, and psychological torture are all part of the everyday experiences of some detainees. Then Joan Blades of MoveOn.org explains what she’s been doing to get people to vote Democratic in the upcoming 2004 elections. Novelist/memoirist Kathryn Harrison talks about her complex relationship with her mother. And a discussion with cabaret singer Karen Akers.
Mark Dow
Mark Dow is the author of American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons. He also co-edited 2002’s Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime.
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Joan Blades
Joan Blades is a founder of MoveOn.org, which has just put out a book called Moveon's 50 Ways To Love Your Country: How To Find Your Political Voice And Become A Catalyst For Change. MoveOn.org is an online activist group with more than 2 million members.
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Kathryn Harrison
In her new memoir, The Mother Knot, Kathryn Harrison details her struggle to resolve angry feelings towards her deceased mother. Her previous memoir was The Kiss.
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Events: Kathryn Harrison will be speaking and signing books on Friday June ...
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Events: Kathryn Harrison will be speaking and signing books on Friday June ...
Karen Akers
Karen Akers is one America’s most successful cabaret singers. She recently had an engagement at the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room.
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Music: "Karen Akers: If We Only Have Love" – Tracks 4, 8
»Visit Karen Akers’s website
Music: "Karen Akers: If We Only Have Love" – Tracks 4, 8
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