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No Alibis 7/14/10 Nawal al Saadawi, Cesar Rodriguez
Egyptian writer,feminist Nawal al Saadawi discusses current political climate in Egypt and its connections to us. 8:30 a.m. Sociology graduate student, Cesar Rodriguez reports on the verdict in Meherles trial for murder of Oskar Grant and reactions in Bay Area at 9:15.
No Alibis 7/28/10 8am Teaching Palestine;Lawrence King case
At 8:30 Marcy Newman, organizer of Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, talks about teaching Palestinian history, etc. in US and Beirut where she will be teaching at a high school.At 9:15, Rolando Longoria, UCSB sociology graduate student, will discuss the murder of Lawrence King two years ago and the trial of the child who killed him. Plus [...]
No Alibis 7/22/10, 8:00am: Haiti, BP oil dispersants
Prof Mark Schuller will join us from Haiti where he has worked for many years to discuss impact of aid, conditions there now, and what he and others characterize as 'capitalizing on catastrophe'. 8:30 a.m. At 9:15 Hugh Kaufman, senior policy analyst with the EPA examines the efficacy of the EPA's oversight in the BP deep water oil blowout. With [...]
No Alibis 6/23/10 Harvey Wasserman & Kristin Peterson
Harvey Wasserman, investigative journalist, author, elections watchdog, and media activist joins us from the US Social Forum re: the BP travesty and energy alternatives, Diablo Canyon, McChrystal's Afghanistan mess. Kristen Peterson, professor of anthropology at UC Irvine whose work has focused on HIV/AIDS politics and policy in Nigeria talks [...]
Interview: Jim Ellinger on Haiti Community Radio
Ellinger just returned from Haiti where he was part of an AMARC team that rebuilt a rural Haitian radio station, Radyo Zetwal Peyizan, in Fondwa. In conversation with Elizabeth Robinson on KCSB's "No Alibis", he describes current conditions in Port au Prince as well as in the countryside. For more info, go to AMARC.org.
No Alibis interview with UK MP Jeremy Corbyn
Labor Member of Parliament, Jeremy Corbyn, discusses the Chilcot Inquiry into the British and US roles in Iraq. The deception, misinformation and malfeasance in both governments are being examined in public hearings in the UK. Corbyn has long been an opponent of military interventions in Iraq and elsewhere including the latest increases in troup [...]
No Alibis 8/19/09: Health Care & Poverty
Dr. Ron Labuguen, California Academy of Family Physicians, discusses the urgent need for health care reform following news analysis from Marisela Marquez and Elizabeth Robinson. Professor Alice O'Connor, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara, discusses poverty in the context of the state and federal economic crisis,the [...]
California budget crisis?
Christopher Newfield, UCSB professor and author of The Unmaking of the Public University discusses the realities of the budget crisis and the assault on public education with No Alibis co-hosts Avery Gordon and Elizabeth Robinson on June 24,2009. No Alibis airs on Wednesdays at 8:00 a.m. PDT on KCSB fm, 91.9 in Santa Barbara.
No Alibis January 14, 8a.m. Richard Falk and Ashley Hunt
Avery Gordon and Elizabeth Robinson will be interviewing Ashley Hunt, one of the creators of '9 Scripts from a Nation at War', about the public readings of tribunal transcripts from Guantanamo Bay. They will also be interviewing Prof. Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine, regarding the Gaza crisis.
No Alibis 7 January 2009 Interview with Daoud Kuttab
Journalist Daoud Kuttab has been a journalist and advocate for communication rights for many years in the Occupied Territories, Jordan and internationally, and he is the founder of Ammannet, an internet and broadcast radio station in Jordan. He was interviewed on January 7 by Avery Gordon and Elizabeth Robinson concerning the current situation in [...]
