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Podcast for Saturday, June 14, 2008 [ 0:01 | 105.15 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (231)

• Steven Greenhouse, author of “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (Knopf). Steve has been the labor and workplace correspondent for the New York Times since 1995.
• John Bowe is the author of “Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy (Random House). In 2004, John received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Sydney Hillman Award for journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good, and the Richard J. Margolis Award, dedicated to journalism that combines social concern and humor. He is the co-editor of “Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs which was one of Harvard Business Review’s best books of 2000. He also is co-screenwriter of the 1996 movie, “Basquiat.”
• Sue Branford is co-editor of Seeding and manages the publications of the agricultural-diversity NGO, Grain. She reports regularly from Latin America for the BBC and the Guardian. She is co-author with Jan Rocha, of “Cutting the Wire: the Story of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (Latin America Bureau) and wrote “Chemical Warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Fumigation” (Latin America Bureau) with Hugh O’Shaughnessy. She is also the author of “The Last Frontier: fighting over land in the Amazon” and “The Debt Squads: the US, the banks and Latin America.” This week, her story, “The world food summit: a lost opportunity” was posted at openDemocracy.
• David Cay Johnston is an independent investigative journalist, formerly for The New York Times, who now focuses on the subject of taxation. David’s most recent book is last year’s “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill.”

And our irregular correspondents were:

• Jeff Dorchen delivered a ‘Moment of Truth’ …
• and ‘The Radical Pessimist’ Kevan Harris reported to us live from you-know-where. Check out his travel blog at http://www.nodoctors.com