Welfare reform.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 19, 1977 (Part 1 and 3 only)

    A Women’s Magazine of the Air, produced by the WBAI Women’s Department, featuring: Part one: Hot Flashes, women’s news from the Majority Report; Part three: Kate Millett interviewed by Judy Pasternak and Viv Sutherland (recording breaks in mid-interview) about her new book “Sita” (1976, Virago); Part two is missing: “Woman’s Place,” a story by Irene…

  • Democracy Now! February 27, 2002

    Crackdown on civil liberties continues with more than a thousand Arab and south-Asian nationals detained indefinitely without trial, charge, or legal rights : look at one of the disappeared: A Muslim religious leader who has been held in solitary confinement for more than two months : should the government play matchmaker? A day after Bush…

  • Democracy Now! March 6, 2002

    Welfare Reform : Big Military Offensive in Afghanistan : U.S. shadow government of a hundred, living and working secretly outside Washington : a debate on the explosive presidential elections in Zimbabwe. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES STORY: HUNDREDS OF POOR PEOPLE STORM THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION Hundreds of people from across the country stormed the headquarters of the ultra-conservative…

  • Democracy Now! March 7, 2002

    Hundreds of poor people storm the headquarters of the Heritage Foundation and demand that one of the countrys leading conservatives take a walk in povertys shoes. Disneys stocks rise as Ted Koppel fights for Nightlines survival on Disneys ABC, threatened by a possible Letterman takeover. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES 9:06-9:07 ONE-MINUTE MUSIC BREAK 9:07-9:20 ENTERTAINMENT TAKES OVER…

  • Democracy Now! March 8, 2002

    Today is INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY Around the world, theres a global womens strike. We’ll go to Israel, Ireland, Argentina, India, and San Francisco. Interview with playwright and V-Day founder EVE ENSLER in Afghanistan for talks with Afghan women leaders. GUEST: MARION LARKIN, Radical Women, New York AUDIO CLIP |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES Today is international womens day.…

  • Debate on the budget / Dr. Ezra Soloman and Frances Piven.

    Soloman, of the President’s council of economic advisors, debates Piven, author of Regulating the Poor about the impact of Nixon’s 1974 budget on American cities.

  • The Democratic platform hearings / Philip Stern.

    Stern speaks about tax welfare, by which the rich receive government monies while the poor receive very little.