Podcast for January 30, 2010
Our guests 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 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.
