Past Shows

Guests: Sarnata Reynolds and Mary Anne Soltis
Topic: Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Date of showing: 2007 01 17

Guest: Larry Kahaner (Author)
Topic: Weapons of War --- AK-47 Assault Rifle

Date of showing: 2007 02 14

Guest: Dahlia Hashad (Director at AI USA)
Topic: Racial Profiling

Date of showing: 2007 02 21

Guest: Joseph A. Vail (Professor / Judge)
Topic: Immigration/Asylum

Date of showing: 2007 02 28

Guest: Sharon L. Ames (Immigration Lawyer)
Topic: Immigration

Date of showing: 2007 03 14

Guests: Scott Edwards (Specialist on Sudan) and Brian Glascock (Student Activist)
Topic: Sudan and Darfur

Date of showing: 2007 03 21

Guest: Bill Quigley (Professor of Law)
Topic: Human Rights in Haiti

Date of showing: 2007 04 04

Guests: Elise Harmon (Teacher) and Claudia Estradia (President PTO)
Topic: Fort Bend Schools

Date of showing: 2007 04 11

Guest: Anne Chandler (Immigration Lawyer)
Topic: Child Refugees

Date of showing: 2007 04 18

Guest: Jose Hidalgo (Medical Doctor)
Topic: Human Trafficking

Date of showing: 2007 04 25

Guest: John Bowe (Author)
Topic: US Slavery

Date of showing: 2007 05 02

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Guest: Kani Xulam (Director Of The American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) )
Topic: Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria

Date of showing: 2009 02 27

Relevant Links:

Amy Goodman Interview With Kani Xulam

Youtube Kani Xulam Interview with Dan Rather

Guest: Dr. Susan Rasmussen (Cultural Anthropologist)
Topic: Niger

Date of showing: 2009 03 06

Relevant Links:

PERSONHOOD, SELF, DIFFERENCE, AND DIALOGUE (COMMENTARY ON CHAUDHARY)

Book: The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger (Hardcover)

Book: Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Some basic information on the focus country : Niger.

Guest: Sister Teresa Macey (Dominican Sisters of Sacred Heart )
Topic: Guatamala

Date of showing: 2009 04 10 (this showing is a repeat)

Guest: Sonali Kolhatkar (Co-Director of Afghanistan Women's Mission)
Topic: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Date of showing: 2009 04 17 (this showing is a repeat)

Guest: Prof. William Aceves (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs)
Topic: Alien Tort Reform (as it applies to corporations)

Date of showing: 2009 04 24 (this showing is a repeat)

Guest: Brandon Neely (IVAW-Houston-TX President )
Topic: Guantanamo and Iraq

Date of showing: 2009 05 01

Guest: Ali Bourequat (former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience )
Topic: prisoner of conscience (Part 1)

Date of showing: 2010 03 12

Relevant Links:

"The Morrocan King's Secret Garden"

For more information regarding the "disappeared" in Morocco, Amnesty International has a page which features this topic here

Guest: Ali Bourequat (former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience )
Topic: prisoner of conscience (Part 2)

Date of showing: 2010 04 02

Relevant Links: (see part 1 above)

Guest: Jared Feuer (Southern Director of Amnesty International USA )
Topic: General background on Amnesty International

Date of showing: 2010 04 16

Relevant Links:

Jared Feuer, Southern Regional Director for Amnesty International speaks about Taser use in the US.

Guest: Marti Corn (photographer)
Topic: plight of Kenyan women

Date of showing: 2010 04 23

Relevant Links:

Selected Photos

Marti Corn's Web-Site

Guest: Dr. Cate Fosl (Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies )
Topic: civil rights activist, Anne Braden

Date of showing: 2010 05 07

Guest: Dr. Seema Jilani (physican and journalist)
Topic: human rights of children

Date of showing: 2010 05 28

Relevant Links:

US cuts will perpetuate child abuse

Among the Refugees

Commentary: I'm tired of apologizing for being a Pakistani Muslim Southerner

Blog Entries by Seema Jilani