Prognosis 1

The FBI’s File on Howard Zinn
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First, the FBI tried to nail him as a member of the Communist Party.

Then, they tried to recruit him as an informant.

Finally, they put him on a list to be arrested during an emergency.read more

Jul 31, 2010

Prognosis 2

Risks to “New Journalists”: Americans Held in Iran
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Still in prison in Iran after one year, two of the three “hikers” had also been doing pathbreaking freelance journalism.read more

Jul 31, 2010

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PROGRESSIVE MEDIA PROJECT

Forty years later, grape boycott still a huge accomplishment
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Forty years ago, workers in the United States won a great victory.

On July 29, 1970, the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) ended its successful grape boycott when the growers agreed to sign the first contract with the union.read more

Jul 29, 2010

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Progressive Radio

Michael Klare

My guest this week is Michael Klare, the visionary author of the "extreme oil" idea, and the book, "Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet."

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McCARTHYISM WATCH

State Dep’t Relents: Colombian Journalist Allowed to Come to Harvard.
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Also: U.S. Solidarity Workers Questionedread more

Jul 28, 2010

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Daily Dose of Durst

July 28, 2010

We give Pakistan a billion a year in aid and they help insurgents in Afghanistan. With friends like this, who needs enemy combatants?

July 27, 2010

Looks like Tony Hayward is getting his life back. Lot of us thinking too bad it wasn’t Charles Manson’s life he got back.

More Durst

The Spoken Word

Danny Hoch - "PSA"
Current issue: August 2010
The Progressive Magazine

A Prayer to Awaken

Terry Tempest Williams | We can mark this moment not with our despair but with our creativity, not by our sense of helplessness, but by our engagement.

Resistance Has a Woman’s Face

Shirin Ebadi | Women activists are at the forefront of the struggle for human rights in Iran.

Our Only Chance

Robert Redford | Now is the time to pass a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill.

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