DEMOCRACY NOW : AUGUST 14 : ORGANIZED LABOR AND BLACKS IN THE GOP/ Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - A daily election year program which takes an in-depth look at the political landscape and interviews visionaries from all walks of life, including members of grassroots organizations who challenge the status quo. - CONTENT: pt.1. The GOP and organized labor| guest Richard Trumka, Secretary Treasurer of the FL-CIO (19:00) -- pt.2. Alternative media and the convention| guests David Eichenbaum, Democratic National Committee Spokesperson and Alex Cockburn, author of the book, Washington Babylon (19:00) -- pt.3. Blacks in the GOP| tape of J.C. Watts, Black Republican from OK| guest David Bositis, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a new black issues think tank in D.C. and Doris Mitchell-Oliveira, an African American alternate delegate from Macon County AL (17:00) - Satellite, August 14, 1996.|DEMOCRACY NOW : AUGUST 14 : WOMEN AND THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION / Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - A election year program which takes an in-depth look at the political landscape and interviews visionaries from all walks of life, including members of grassroots organizations and challenge the status quo. - CONTENT: pt.1. Women in the Republican Convention| tape of Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Texas Governor, Christie Todd Whitman, New Jersey Governor, and Susan Molinari, representative of NY| guest Adele Stan, from Ms. magazine and Mother Jones, and Judy Randall, Staten Island Advance on Molinari (19:00) -- pt.2. Tobacco politics at the GOP convention| tape of Morton Downey, Jr. former right wing talk show host who was on the board of the National Smoker's Alliance and is now suffering from lung cancer| guest Ed Gillette, an emphysema sufferer and volunteer with the American Lung Association (9:00) -- pt.3. Republican party and moderation| guest Mike Hudson, Western Director for People for the American Way and Sara Diamond, author of the book, Roads to Dominion| Right Wing Movements and Politial Power in the U.S.| discussion about Jack Kemp's longstanding connection to the Christian right (17:00) - Satellite, August 14, 1996,
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