Mary Glenney interviews Robert Perks of the Natural Resources Defense Council discusses how the Bush administration, in catering to industries that put America's health and natural heritage at risk, threatens to do more damage to our environmental protections than any other in U.S. history. Robert Kennedy, jr., of NRDC wrote an extensive article, "Crimes Against Nature" about the Bush environmental record in "Rolling
Stone". Check it out at: http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaff...
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Interview with the book's author, Jeffrey M. Smith.
IT’S NOT WIDELY KNOWN - BUT MUCH OF THE FOOD WE BUY IN GROCERY STORES HERE IN THE U.S. IS GENETICALLY MODIFIED. IN MANY CASES GENES FROM ONE SPECIES ARE TRANSFERRED INTO A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SPECIES. EUROPE HAS VERY RESTRICTIVE POLICIES ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS. OUR GUEST JEFFREY SMITH HAS WRITTEN A NEW BOOK CALLED SEEDS OF DECEPTION. IN IT HE CLAIMS THAT GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS ARE UNSAFE. HE SAYS THE GIANT CORPORATIONS WHO ARE...
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This morning a press conference was held to announce the renovation of the Belmont Heights Little League baseball fields. Those in attendance included representatives from the City of Tampa, Lowe’s Home Centers Inc., Little League International, and the Devil Rays. WMNF’s Kim Farley reports……
The day was, as Mayor Iorio termed it, “perfect baseball weather.� With no clouds and a slight breeze the ceremony was underway at 11 am this morning.
The representatives from Loweâ€...
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Special guests on the Women’s Show – “From a Woman’s Point of View� – this Saturday, November 22nd. Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and Marianne Williamson, author and lecturer.
Katha Pollitt. Katha Pollitt is well known for her sharp and provocative analyses of popular culture and politics. Her "Subject to Debate" column, which The Washington Post called "the best place to go for original thinking on the left," began in January 1994 and appears every other week in ...
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Special guests on the Women’s Show – “From a Woman’s Point of View� – this Saturday, November 22nd. Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and Marianne Williamson, author and lecturer.
Marianne Williamson. Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. She has published eight books, four of which – including the mega bestseller A Return to Love and the newly-released Everyday Grace have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her titles also include A Womanâ€...
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Last week labor, environmental, senior, farm and human rights activists gathered in Miami to protest what they say were the undemocratic trade rules being discussed at the Free Trade Area of the America meetings in Miami. Although the groups had obtained permits for peaceful marches and rallies, they say their assemblies were violently broken up by the Miami/Dade police. Using tear gas, rubber bullets, electrically charged shields and batons, police injured hundreds of peaceful demonstrators ...
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Photojournalist Christopher Morris has photographed wars in more than a dozen countries, including the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He's a contributor to a new photo book called WAR: USA/AFGHANISTAN/IRAQ. Morris described what it's like to be a photographer in the midst of a war; the moral questions, the issue of "embeddedness," equipment, and the journalist's relationship to the warring factions.
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Dr. Carol Roberts' guest this hour was Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer, author of THE ALCHEMY OF THE DESERT. She believes in the power of the vibrational essences of flowers.
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Special guests on the Women’s Show – “From a Woman’s Point of View� – this Saturday, November 22nd.Holly Near and Cris Williamson -- two long-time activists for human dignity.The interviews will not focus so much on their past, though they are legends, icons actually, but on their engagement in the world today.We will talk to them about the present -- and I think you will see that their great artistry demonstrates how the present, impossible without the past, sculpts the future.
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Special guests on the Women’s Show – “From a Woman’s Point of View� – this Saturday, November 22nd.Holly Near and Cris Williamson -- two long-time activists for human dignity.The interviews will not focus so much on their past, though they are legends, icons actually, but on their engagement in the world today.We will talk to them about the present -- and I think you will see that their great artistry demonstrates how the present, impossible without the past, sculpts the future.
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