Nov 23, 2011         3 
Pepper Spray Developer and Expert Witness: UC Davis Police, if Civilian Would Be Arrested, Charged with Using Deadly Weapon

Pepper Spray Developer and Expert Witness Kamran Loghman says, "I haven't given an interview on pepper spray for five years now. I looked at the video and almost came to tears. I looked at them and thought of my children Like being sprayed like insects. Totally inappropriate and improper I have been to court numerous times, but I have never seen anything like this. "

Nov 23, 2011         2 
Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist Par Extraordinaire Exposes The 1% Vultures

Greg Palast could be the most dynamic, daring, ass-kicking, results producing investigative journalist on the planet.

Nov 9, 2011
Procurement Needs and How they're acquired at an Occupy Wall Street Locale

Joe Kalil works at multiple tasks at Occupy Philly. He talks about some of what he does and about the donation/Procurement needs of Occupy Philly. But my guess is that most Occupy locations need the same kinds of things

Nov 2, 2011         2 
Glenn Greenwald; With Liberty and Justice for Some... and How the Occupy Movement Could Change Things

I talk with Glenn about his new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, and about the Occupy movement.

Oct 26, 2011         1 
Interviews With Occupy Philly Occupiers

I interview people from different work groups-- direct action, donations, information, facilitation-- many of them there since day one.

Oct 19, 2011         4 
Danny Schechter on the Occupy Wall Street Movement

i talk with Danny about OWS, bringing in Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Hierarchy, Human Mic, agents provocateur, and more.

Oct 12, 2011         1 
Linda Milazzo; Questions About the Occupy Movement-- Lack of Leadership, Bottom-up-ness, Its Future

Linda, one of OEN's managing editors, and I have been to four different Occupy communities. We discuss our impressions, observations and the questions they've raised.

Oct 5, 2011         3 
Kevin Zeese; Plans for Freedom Square Occupation and October2011 Events

I talk with Kevin Zeese

Sep 21, 2011
Whistleblowing and Michael German; Secrecy, Surveillance State; Former FBI Special Agent AND ACLU Policy Counsel

Michael German, a former FBI special agent who now works for the ACLU to protect our liberties talks about abuses of secrecy, the growing surveillance state and how it affects us all.

Sep 7, 2011         1 
Obama's Great Betrayal, His Narcissism.... with Michael Brenner

Obama's narcissism. Blurring virtual reality and actual reality. No convictions, no capacity for embarrassment or shame So convincing in his chameleon roles because he can't

Aug 31, 2011
Geologist Scott Ausbrooks on Fracking/Earthquake connection

Scott M. Ausbrooks, RPG Registered Professional Geologist Geohazards Supervisor, Arkansas Geological Survey Scott led a team that discovered a connection between Fracking disposal wells and earthquakes. We discussed questions about the connection between fracking and the big Virginia earthquake centered in Louisa County Virginia this week.

Aug 17, 2011         8 
Dennis Loo; Globalization and the Demolition of Society

neoliberalism is the political manifestation of globalization, which is demolishing society. Democracy doesn't work and won't work, Voting only perpetuates a broken system.

Aug 10, 2011         2 
James Peck: How The U.S. Govt Co-Opted Human Rights Activism

James Peck explores how the Humanitarian movement has been and is worse and worse, been exploited and used as a front for the U.S. government--

Aug 3, 2011
Tom Wolff: The Power of Collaborative Solutions

Tom Wolff helps local people become coalitions and groups that help each other-- to collaborate-- simply, doing together what they CAN’T do apart. The problem is people have a hard time believing in their right and ability to become empowered and active participants in the community. We talk about why and how they become so disempowered-- how different parts of the system do it to us all.

Jul 20, 2011         7 
Chuck Collins; Answers to Tax Dodging, Ayn Rand Loving Teapartiers

Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is an expert on issues of economic inequality and taxation, and co-author of several other books including: Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity

Jul 13, 2011         1 
Wendy Call: A People Who Have Fought Globalization for CENTURIES

Wendy Call wrote her book, NO WORD FOR WELCOME about the people of Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, who have been fighting and resisting globalization for hundreds of years. The book offers lessons in how people anywhere can fight globalization's assault on community, culture, jobs and even, life.

Jul 6, 2011
Ryan Lee: Continuity Income and Membership Sites

Ryan Lee runs Continuity Forum, a conference that brings together experts on continuity websites and businesses

Jun 29, 2011         16 
Alan Grayson, Progressive Hell-Raiser

A wide ranging, hour long interview with one of the toughest speaking, acting progressives, including some very interesting new news

Jun 29, 2011         1 
John Jackson; co-author SMALL ACTS OF RESISTANCE--An Incredible Book of Stories of Courage and Resistance

John Jackson is co-author of Small Acts of Resistance, a collection of stories which show how courage, tenacity and a bit of ingenuity can change the world Small Acts is an incredible book that I highly recommend to any activist or protester.

Jun 29, 2011
John Jackson; co-author SMALL ACTS OF RESISTANCE

John Jackson is co-author of Small Acts of Resistance, a collection of stories which show how courage, tenacity and a bit of ingenuity can change the world

Jun 22, 2011
Anne Marie Slaughter: Bottom Up Digital, Connected Diplomacy and Statecraft

Anne-Marie Slaughter was the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011. [1] She is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and was formerly Dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Jun 15, 2011         3 
Clay Shirky; Social Media Visionary

Clay Shirky sees big pictures where others see facebook and twitter. He sees the forest where most see tree branches.

Jun 8, 2011         1 
Tunisian Revolutionary Houeida Anouar

Houeida Anouar was there, before and during the Tunisian revolution.I interviewed at the 2011 Personal Democracy forum about her experience and observations, being there as part of the revolution.

Jun 1, 2011         1 
Harold Goldberg How 50 Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture

Harold Goldberg is the author of ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US : How 50 Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture , a narrative history of video games from Random House. He was editor in chief of Sony Online Entertainment and has written about games for Wired, Entertainment Weekly and VH1.

May 18, 2011         8 
Helen Thomas on Israel, Netanyahu, Zionism, Presidents, the Media, the Arab Spring

a wide ranging conversation covering her views, her experience over more than 50 years as White House Correspondent and journalist.

May 11, 2011
Richard Wolff; Corporations are Threatening and Bullying America

Corporations are threatening the US, threatening US citizens. How to fight back.

May 4, 2011
Eric Whitacre; Conductor, Composer, Developer of the Virtual Choir, TED Speaker

a fascinating interview with the "star" of the April TED Conference. He tells me that after he spoke, Bill Gates, Sergei Brin, Cameron Diaz and Peter Frampton came up to speak with him

Apr 27, 2011
Donald Maass; How Good Writers Can Write Better

Don Maass heads a literary agency and is, in the world of fiction, a rock star among writers, for his books on Breakout Novels and Breakout Novellists. We talk about writing better stories, better characters, how that can be used for change, for reporting non-fiction, for energizing op-eds.

Apr 20, 2011         7 
John Perkins, Best-selling author, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The economic hit men who used to go after third world nations are in the US and they caused the economic crisis.

Apr 20, 2011
Chris Lundberg: Salsa Wired for Change

Chris helps over 1700 non-profits and campaignss get their digital act together, reaching a total of over 30 million people. We talk about what he's learned that can help activists, organizations and candidates.