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Bush Domestic Spying Program Revealed
GUESTS: Sherman Austin, political activist targeted by the government, Nancy Talanian, Director of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee

The New York Times reported last Friday on a government program of spying on US residents. It had known the story for over a year, before the last Presidential election. The report has created a furor in the capital, with politicians in both parties saying that President Bush was wrong to authorize surveillance by the National Security Agency without permission from a special court. In response, Bush and other administration officials went on the offensive this week, angrily defending the program as essential to national security, and criticizing the New York Times for it’s reporting.

President Bush in a news conference yesterday, followed by Condoleeza Rice speaking to “Fox News Sunday”, Alberto Gonzalez speaking to NBC’s Today Show.

The spying program includes eavesdropping on international telephone calls and emails made by Americans.

For more information visit www.bordc.org, and freesherman.org.

Commentary on history of Government Surveillance
GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist and writer

Mumia Abu Jamal is a political prisoner on death row who himself was under intense surveillance by the FBI during his work with the Black Panther Party. He filed this commentary.

For more information visit www.prisonradio.org.

Focus on Identity Theft
GUEST: Erik Drew, founder of KnightsBridge Castle

According to the Insurance Information Institute, in the last five years more than 27 million Americans have been the victims of Identity Theft. Identity theft has cost consumers over $5 billion in out-of-pocket expenses. In the year 2005 alone, cases of identity theft reached a epidemic proportions with security breaches affecting a reported 50 million people. In one case, a hospital worker stole the identity of a man named Erik Drew, while he was undergoing treatment for Leukemia. That experience led him to create the KnightsBridge Castle, an ID theft prevention firm and non-profit foundation that seeks to strengthen U.S. laws to stop the escalating number of ID theft crimes committed. Drew argues that current laws do not afford us any control or rights to our own identities and that banks and other financial institutions have no responsibilities to protect our information.

For more information, visit www.knightsbridgecastle.com or call 1877-620-9330.

The North Pole is Sinking!
GUESTS: 7 year old, Ethan Kheim Matsuda, and his father Michael Matsuda

Ethan Khiem Matsuda is a second grader at Raymond Elementary School in Fullerton. He joins us in studio with his father Michael Matsuda. Not only is Ethan able to sing, but he writes. And he is a published author, having just published a book with the help of his father, for other children like him. It’s called “The North Pole is Sinking: A tale about Global Warming.”

For more information and to get the book, visit www.thenorthpoleissinking.com

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

Native American saying: We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.