Human Rights Audio & Video

[description] The Burmese government is under increasing pressure to allow foreign aid workers and organizations into the country. We'll speak with the Christian Science Monitor's Chris Johnson, who's been reporting from Burma. Lijia Zhang is a Chinese journalist and writer whose memoir is titled, "Socialism is Great!". We speak to Zhang about growing up in the 80s in China — she had to work in a factory, but developed a great appreciation of Jane Eyre. Zhang also talks about the new China, as it copes with a devastating earthquake. There is a lot of news on the political front today and we'll wrap it up with Rick Klein of ABC News. Speaking in Israel today, President Bush suggested that Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of "appeasement" of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II. Obama is basking in the John Edwards' endorsement. Meantime, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, said if he's elected, American

[description] In a spirited and eloquent speech before an estimated crowd of 30,000 people in the stadium at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee on May 18, 1963, President Kennedy reminded his listeners that it falls to the educated man to assume the greater obligations of citizenship—for the pursuit of learning, to serve the public and to uphold the law.

[description] At the 2008 Left Forum: Alternative Radio's David Barsamian and author Tariq Ali talk about Pakistan. -- Thank you for catching our podcast! We provide programs FREE to radio stations and do not accept government or corporate support, so PLEASE DONATE at: http://www.radioproject.org/support .

[description] Top stories from the Boston Globe for May 08, 2008

[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour

[description] Hola!  Happy May Day!  Worker's Unite!  Bishop Teixera joins Michael to shed some light on the May Day rally at Boston Common. 

[description] The trail of undocumented immigrants: from ICE raids in NYC, to a detention center in Texas, to deportation to Mexico. -- Thank you for catching our podcast! We provide programs FREE to radio stations and do not accept government or corporate support, so PLEASE DONATE at: http://www.radioproject.org/support .

[description] President Bush says Congress is blocking his proposals to deal with high gas prices and dragging its feet on legislation to make more student loans available and ease the mortgage crunch.

[description] John Ryder helps the confused Celtics fans after the C's lose Game 4, 97-92 to the Atlanta Hawks to tie the series at 2.

[description] This morning Wally told us about his new shoes. We played Men From Maine. Wally found out an interesting story about Roger Clemens. We talked to Bill Lee. The checks everyone gets back from the government was a big topic. We had a Wallyology report about sharp brains. We also talked to Laura Behnke who called in. We kicked off the beginning of our Employee of the Day. And we played the red tide song this morning.