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The Leonard Lopate Show / February 21, 2005

The Leonard Lopate Show

Monday, February 21, 2005
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  • Suburban Sweatshops
    Suburban Sweatshops

    From the Top Down

    Sweatshops aren't just in cities and developing countries. Today, we'll investigate suburban sweatshops in places like Long Island. Then, one of France's best dramatists, Jean-Claude Carriere, looks into 16th c. Catholic church morals in his new play, The Controversy of Valladolid. New York musician Butch Morris explains his ambitious new project - he's conducting different ensembles every day of the week for the entire month of February. And we'll find out how a group of Hungarian Holocaust survivors may have been seriously cheated by the U.S. government.

Malls, Cul-de-sacs, and Sweatshops

On Long Island, many Hispanic laborers have to work in unsafe conditions. Jennifer Gordon is the author of Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight For Immigrant Rights. She's also founder of the Workplace Project, which helps immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island.

» More about Jennifer Gordon's book

Music: Erin Brockovich soundtrack (Thomas Newman) #2/1

Holy Wars

Jean-Claude Carriere is a French screenwriter, dramatist, and iconoclast who's collaborated with the likes of Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard. Now he's brought his award-winning play, The Controversy of Valladolid, to the Public Theatre. It's about the debate in the 16th century Vatican over the legal and moral status of the indigenous population of the Americas.

» More about The Controversy of Valladolid

Music: Carriere: Rene Clemencic et ses flutes (#2) (Harmonia Mundi)

Conduction

Butch Morris is a great innovator in jazz, new music, improvisation, and contemporary classical music. He'll be conducting ensembles every single night during Black February 2005. It's his celebration of 20 years of Conduction, a musical and improvisational art that he's developed.

» More about Butch Morris
» See the schedule of events for Black February 2005 (PDF)

Music: Holy Sea, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris and ORT - Orchestra della Toscana: "57E1"

Top-Level Looting

A class action suit has been filed against the United States on behalf of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. The suit claims that the US Army confiscated the plaintiffs' personal property during WWII, and never returned it to its rightful owners! Leonard talks to Michael Waldman, an attorney working on the case. We'll also hear from Dr. Gabor Somjen and Agnes Somjen by telephone. They are Holocaust survivors who were among the lead plaintiffs in the case.

» Some background on the Gold Train lawsuit
» More about Michael Waldman
» More about the lawsuit

Music: Charlotte Gray soundtrack (Stephen Warbeck/Sony Classical) #1

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

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Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel from Illinois has agreed to be Chief of Staff under President-Elect Barack Obama. You can hear him on the Lopate Show in 2006 discussing his thoughts on what the Democratic party needed to do in order to succeed.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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As the Democratic Convention is underway in Denver, listen to Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

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Sen. Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. To find out more about his personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?