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The Leonard Lopate Show / June 08, 2004

The Leonard Lopate Show

Tuesday, June 08, 2004
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    Homeland Security

    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.

» More about the book and author
» Visit the Department of Homeland Security’s website

Music: "Instrumental Tracks 7/8/03" – Tracks 7, 2

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.

» Visit MoveOn.org

Music: "Erin Brockovich S/T" – Tracks 10, 15, 18

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.

» More about the book

Events: Kathryn Harrison will be speaking and signing books on Friday June 11th at 7pm, Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at West 66th Street

Music: "The Hours S/T" – Tracks 2, 4

Karen Akers

Karen Akers is one America’s most successful cabaret singers. She recently had an engagement at the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room.

»Visit Karen Akers’s website

Music: "Karen Akers: If We Only Have Love" – Tracks 4, 8

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

The Leonard Lopate Show

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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Listen to President-Elect 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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To find out more about Vice President-Elect Joe Biden’s 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?