INDUSTRY AND LABOR

  • 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…

  • 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 6, 1999

    U.S. Military Spending; What did Mobil Know? The Killing Fields of Aceh; Y2K and the Progressive Community. Does it Matter? |(14 Minutes) U. S. Military Spending Analysis of President Clinton’s proposal which is the largest peace-time military spending increase since the Reagan era for fiscal year 2000 budget. $110 billion increase has been proposed. Also…

  • Bob Barr and Abortion; Larry Flynt and Media Coverage of Impeachment; Saipan Lawsuit

    (14 Minutes) Bob Barr and Abortion On Monday night, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt revealed that staunch anti-abortion Republican Bob Barr had supported and paid for his own wife’s abortion in 1985 and that he had had an extramarital affair. Barr is one of the House managers that are prosecuting President Clinton in his impeachment trial.…

  • Democracy Now! December 7, 1998

    Howard Zinn on Mergers; Noam Chomsky |(33 Minutes) Howard Zinn on Mergers As Exxon and Mobil merge to become the world’s biggest corporation, a conversation with the radical historian on the implications of the return of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. GUEST: Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Boston University. He is the…

  • Democracy Now!

    Teamsters and James Hoffa; Hurricane Carter and the Death Penalty; Clinton Impeachment |(18 Minutes) Teamsters and James Hoffa Forty-one years after his famous father was elected to the same post, James P. Hoffa this weekend won the presidency of the Teamsters Union. GUEST: Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of NY…

  • Ken Saro Wiwa Intervie; Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship

    (5 Minutes) Ken Saro Wiwa Interview, conducted with Pacifica Radio’s WBAI in 1994. (50 Minutes) Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship. Expose on the role of the San Francisco oil giant in the killing of two Nigerian activists.

  • Iraqi Official Escapes Assassination Attempt; Crackdowns in Indonesia, East Timor; Shopping with Conscience Labor Campaign

    –Iraqi Official Escapes Assassination Attempt Unidentified gunmen hurled hand grenades at an official representing Saddam Hussein at a religious ceremony. GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now Producer in Baghdad. –Crackdowns in Indonesia, East Timor Thousands of students have taken to the streets today in Dili, the capital of East Timor, to demand an investigation into the…