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Our guests on our January 30th show were:
- Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician in the
Baltimore area and co-chairs the Maryland chapter of Physicians
for a National Health Program. Dr. Flowers is one of
two single payer doctors who were arrested Friday outside
the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel where President
Obama was scheduled to speak to House Republicans. Physicians
for a National Health Program describes itself as "a
single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive
single-payer national health program."
- live from London, Atmospheric Physicist Victoria Johnson
is researcher for the climate change and energy program
at the New
Economics Foundation. Victoria studies the interaction
between climate change and social justice including the
social impacts of technological 'Magic Bullets', energy
equity, social justice and carbon trading, climate change
and human rights, the feasibility of green/sustainable growth
and potential changes to lifestyle, politics and economics
in a post-carbon world in the context of climate change
policy and peak oil.
We'll be spoke with Victoria about a couple recent NEF reports
including, "The Great Transition" and "Growth
isn't Possible."
- journalist Anand
Gopal has reported in Afghanistan for the Christian
Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. He is currently
working on a book about the Afghan war. This week, he posted
the TomDispatch story, "Obama's
Secret Prisons: Night Raids, Hidden Detention Centers,
the 'Black Jail,' and the Dogs of War in Afghanistan."
This piece appears in print in the latest issue of the Nation
magazine.
- live from Geneva, Antoine Mach is co-founder and
director of Covalence.
Covalence tracks the ethical reputation of multinationals.
They monitor and aggregate online news, publish ethical
rankings and offer reputation management products to companies,
investors, and non profit organizations. He is the author
of 2001's "Swiss business and human rights: Confrontations
and partnerships with NGOs" (Fribourg
University Press). This week, Covalence released its
annual ranking of the overall ethical performance of multinational
corporations.
- freelance writer Christopher
Ketcham writes for Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's, Salon
and many other magazines and websites. Christopher's article,
"Warning:
Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health,"
appears in the February GQ.
Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
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