The Best of Progressive Radio
Summary: Each week, the editors of The Progressive magazine present their favorite audio interviews with progressive leaders and thinkers conducted over the past several years.
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My guest this week is the poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, who talks about his time in prison and the redemptive nature of poetry.read more
My guest in 2008 was the performance artist and singer/songwriter Laurie Anderson.
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An interview with Amira Hass, a reporter for the Israeli paper Ha’aretz who was won numerous press freedom awards for her courageous reporting from the Occupied Territories, where she lives.
A 2006 interview with George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, who works with the Human Rights Campaign to combat the rightwing's push against gay marriage.
A 2005 interview with Philip Gourevitch, the editor of the Paris Review. He is the author of "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families." We talked about U.S. politics, and about the genocide in Rwanda.
A 2006 interview with feminist scholar Cynthia Enloe. We talked about women in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A 2005 interview with Si Kahn, a folksinger, activist, author, and organizer. I spoke with him about his life, his music, and the keys to becoming a good organizer.
A 2006 interview with the Nobel Prize-winner in economics Joseph Stiglitz, author of "Making Globalization Work." We talk about this book, as well as the costs of the Iraq War.
