Underreported
A Weekly Feature on The Leonard Lopate Show; Airs every Thursday at noon
Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues and gives an in-depth look into stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
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Underreported: Outsourcing Political Activism?
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Dana R. Fisher, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia, tells us about her research into political canvassing in progressive politics. She claims that the left is outsourcing political activism—sending paid workers out to do the work of grassroots outreach. And she argues that it’s destroying the left’s political infrastructure, ...
Underreported: Native American Teen Suicide
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Steve Sanderson is the creator of Darkness Calls, a comic book he hopes will discourage Native American teens from committing suicide. He’s joined by Sean Muir, the Executive Director of the Healthy Aboriginal Net, who reports that suicide is the second cause of death for American Indians and ...
Underreported: Are Midterm Elections Highly Predictable?
Thursday, October 05, 2006
We kick off our coverage of Underreported election issues with Joseph Bafumi, an Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth, who says midterm elections are highly predictable. Find out what he thinks we can expect this November.
Do you have an election prediction? Which party do ...
Do you have an election prediction? Which party do ...
Underreported: An Update from Somalia
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Somalia has been without a functioning central government since 1991. Now, it may be on the brink of civil war. On today's Underreported, David Shinn--who served as Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1996 to 1999 and is now an Adjunct Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington ...
Underreported: Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Uneasy Neighbors on One Small Island
Thursday, April 06, 2006
On today's Underreported, a look into the history of discrimination against Haitians in the Dominican Republic, and why the two neighbors are so culturally and politically different. Leonard talks to Dr. Edward Paulino, professor of history at CUNY's John Jay College; and Julissa Reynoso, an attorney and activist in New ...
Human Cargo
Thursday, March 02, 2006
On this week's edition of Underreported: survival stories from the world’s refugees. In Human Cargo, Caroline Moorehead describes the living conditions she encountered while traveling among refugees for two years. Worldwide, 17 million people are living in limbo. We'll find out why, for many, escaping genocide, political persecution, and sexual ...
Underreported: Violent Crackdown in China
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Up to 20 protesters were killed last week by Chinese police in a fishing village near Hong Kong. On today's edition of our regular Underreported feature, we'll find out what caused the protests, and what led what could be China's biggest use of force on citizens since the Tiananmen Square ...
Environmental Injustice
Thursday, December 01, 2005
On today's Underreported feature, the politics of pollution. Some experts feel that “environmental racism” is keeping industrial waste and toxins in poor and minority communities, and out of affluent neighborhoods. We'll talk to Melissa Checker, the author of Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice In A Southern ...
Underreported: Uzbekistan
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Four months ago, Uzbekistan authorities opened fire on a peaceful demonstration in Andijann. Hundreds (perhaps even 1,000) people were killed in the worst massacre of demonstrators since Tiananmen Square. In this week’s Underreported feature, we’ll look into what caused the violence, and what’s been done in response.
Tamil Tigers
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Guest host Philip Gourevitch looks into the prospects for peace in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami on our weekly feature Underreported. He is joined by Dayan Jayatilleka, Sinhalese political scientist and newspaper columnist in Sri Lanka.
Real Live Aid
Thursday, July 07, 2005
On today's Underreported, Leonard asks John Chiahemen, Reuters chief correspondent for Southern Africa, about poverty, debt reduction, and the real benefit of events like Live Aid and Live 8.
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Music: Kronos Quartet, Pieces of Africa, White Man Sleeps composed by Kevin ...
» Underreported series
Music: Kronos Quartet, Pieces of Africa, White Man Sleeps composed by Kevin ...
Murder in Mexico
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Almost 400 women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua City since 1993. On today's Underreported feature, we’ll find out why it's likely that the killers remain free, while the killings continue and innocent people may be behind bars. We’ll hear from Laurie Freeman, Associate for Mexico and Security ...
Reproductive Health
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Refugees are forced to deal with many critical issues throughout the world. In today’s Underreported feature, we’ll examine some of the specific issues that refugee women are struggling with, including gender-based violence and grossly inadequate reproductive health care. Gertrude Garway, a former refugee from Liberia, tells us about her work ...
Wage Gaps
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Avis Jones-DeWeever, the Poverty, Welfare, and Income Security Study Director for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, gives us an update on the earning gap between men and women, and how race further widens wage discrepancies. Women earn 76 cents for every dollar earned by the average American man. But ...
Mental Health and Human Rights
Thursday, April 28, 2005
In this week's Underreported feature, Eric Rosenthal, the founder and executive director of Mental Disability Rights International, talks about international approaches to mental health. In many places, the mentally ill endure horrible treatment and live in subhuman conditions, yet some feel that this is being overlooked by human rights organizations.
Water Rights
Thursday, April 21, 2005
The Hopi tribe in Arizona sits on top of an aquifer, with water so pure that it needs no treatment. The Hopi way of life depends on that water, but an energy company is currently draining the aquifer. On today’s Underreported feature, Vernon Masayesva, head of the Black Mesa Trust ...
Gay Rights in the Middle East
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Scott Long, the LGBT director of Human Rights Watch, and Ramzi Zakharia, the webmaster and outreach director for GLAS (the Gay and Lesbian Arab Society), give us an update on the state of gay rights in the Middle East. In the past year, activists in Lebanon have launched a campaign ...
Child Soldiers
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Leonard talks to Bukeni Tete Waruzi from Enfants Soldats, Jo Becker Children's Rights Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch; and Hakima Abbas of Witness, an organization that trains human rights defenders to use video to document abuses.
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An Update on Haiti
Thursday, March 10, 2005
On our latest edition of Underreported, Jocelyn McCalla, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights, joins us for an update on the political situation in Haiti one year after President Jean Bertrand-Aristide was ousted.
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» More on the National Coalition for Haitian Rights ...
Generational Conflict
Thursday, March 03, 2005
As conflict in Nepal continues, we'll look at how it’s affecting women and children there. Many children are being abducted and forced to fight in the war. Today on our Underreported feature, we find out how the conflict may be damaging an entire generation of Nepalis.
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