GENERAL HISTORY

  • Democracy Now! August 12, 1997

    Big Rigs; Northern Ireland; Police Surveillance |(14 Minutes) Big Rigs Debate on trucking industry and need for opening more highways. Debate is part of of a massive $175 billion transoportation bill making its way though Congress. GUEST: Michael Scippa, exec. dir. of Citizens for Responsible and Safe Highways. GUEST: Warren Hoemann, VP for policy of…

  • Democracy Now! August 13, 1997

    CIA Documents; Domestic Violence; Moon and the Republican Right |(14 Minutes) CIA Documents CIA coming under fire re: stonewalling the release of decades-old documents. It is making an official US diplomatic history the target of ridicule and scorn. GUEST: Warren F. Kimball, prof. of American diplomatic history of Rutgers University. He is the head of…

  • Democracy Now! July 22, 1997

    Campaign Finance Reform; Peru |(33 Minutes) Campaign Finance Reform Discussion of Campaign Finance Reform movement’s growth and the development of a combative legal wing. Discussion of the legal movement and how it is challenging the present system. GUEST: John Bonifaz, director of National Voting Rights Institute, which aims to bring a series of landmark court…

  • Democracy Now! December 30, 1998

    Conversation with Former Irish Political Prisoner Joe Doherty; Colombian Paramilitary Chief Suspected Killed |(28 Minutes) A Conversation with Former Irish Political Prisoner Joe Doherty. Joe Doherty, one of the most visible political prisoners in the US became the face of the Irish Republican movement in North America. He was released from prison as part of…

  • Democracy Now! December 31, 1998

    Shortcuts : A Shortcut through 1998 |Today on Democracy Now, our annual special look back at the year: “A Shortcut through 1998.” Hear the voices, the music and the sounds that shaped the year with award-winning producer Peter Bochan’s special year-in-review mix. Shortcuts.

  • Holiday Rituals I

    Holiday Rituals I From Bacchanalian feast to Christian celebration to spending frenzy, the winter holiday season has evolved over the centuries. GUEST: Penne Restad is a professor at the University of Texas an sauthor of Christmas in America: a History

  • Year in Review Call-in Show

    Year in Review Call in show reviewing events through 1998

  • Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel; Race and Corporate Law World

    (14 Minutes) Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel Supreme Court Chief William Rehnquist will preside over the Sentate impeachment trial of President Clinton, if it happens. Rehnquist has actually written a book on two such trials called “Grand Inquest,” which might lend some insight into how he would conduct the historic proceeding. Burt Neuborne, law professor, reviews his…

  • Democracy Now! January 5, 1999

    Police Shooting in California; Bloodbath in the Niger Delta |(14 Minutes) Police Shooting in California In Riverside, CA the black community wants answers in the police shooting death of a nineteen-year-old woman, Tyisha Miller. GUEST: Don Bardo, President and CEO of Urban League of Riverside and San Bernadino counties. GUEST: Reverend Bernel Butler, cousin of…

  • Democracy Now! January 11, 1999

    Essay on Impeachment , the Sentate and the Supreme Court; The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day; Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages |(6 Minutes) Essay on Impeachment, the Senate and the Supreme Court, Amy Goodman (8 Minutes)The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day A federal judge ruled that the Ku Klux Klan…