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Podcast for Saturday, November 11, 2006 [ 101.72 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (52)

• Black Agenda Report (http://www.blackagendareport.com) managing editor Bruce Dixon talked with us about his article, "Impeachment Democrats, Antiwar Democrats, Count-Every-Vote Democrats Vs. Democratic Party Leaders."
• Julia Whitty wrote the story, "The Thirteenth Tipping Point News: 12 global disasters and 1 powerful antidote," for the November/December issue of Mother Jones. Julia has been making nature documentaries for the past twenty-five years specializing in underwater films. Julia is the author of "A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga" (Mariner Books) which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has been a recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Rona Jeffe Foundations Writers Award, and she is currently finishing a book on coral reef entitled, "There Are Many Souls Embodied In Water: Tales from the Coral World." She was on This is Hell in March to talk about her story in the March/April issue of Mother Jones entitled, "The Fate Of The Ocean," (http://tinyurl.com/rse3o) in which Julia says "our oceans are under attack and approaching a point of no return."
• Joshua Holland, a staff writer for AlterNet.org and a regular contributor to The Gadflyer (http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/). Joshua was on This is Hell back in July. He was on to discuss this week’s elections, the war in Iraq and the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld. Joshua’s most recent article is yesterday’s "Bush Replaces Rumsfeld with … Another Rumsfeld."
• Justin Levitt is associate counsel with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law (http://brennancenter.org). On our Election Night Special Tuesday, Justin reported on what was happening at the voting booth while he was monitoring an election hotline responsible for several states. Justin returned this morning for a follow-up on voting irregularities that took place Election Day.

LaddieO.com gave us a web, tech and science report from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth, and Dan "The Auto Man" Litchfield did his car thing.