Nov 12 2009
Debbie Peagler on Violence Against Women – Part 1
| the entire program | Part 1 of the interview
Following up from our coverage earlier this week of violence against women globally, with Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini, we focus today and tomorrow on violence against American women through the case of one victim of domestic violence: Debbie Peagler. In 1982, a man by the name of Oliver Wilson was found dead. …
Following up from our coverage earlier this week of violence against women globally, with Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini, we focus today and tomorrow on violence against American women through the case of one victim of domestic violence: Debbie Peagler. In 1982, a man by the name of Oliver Wilson was found dead. …
Coal Country, a documentary by Phylis Geller and Mari-Lynn Evans explores the economic and environmental devastation of extracting coal through mountain top removal (MTR) in the Coal River Mountain region of West Virginia. Also known as strip-mining, mountain top removal is the process of clear-cutting forest from mountains, blasting away the unwanted rock, extracting the coal, and …
As President Obama mulls over his Afghanistan war strategy, most likely adding 10,000 to 40,000 troops, it is fitting on Veterans Day to examine the state of US troops. Last week’s tragic shooting at Fort Hood, Texas by an Army psychiatrist that left thirteen people dead underscores the dire mental state of American soldiers. A study by the RAND …
Yesterday we heard part 1 of a two part interview with Jordanian journalist and feminist Rana Husseini about her new book, Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman’s Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime. Every year an estimated 5000 women are killed by so-called crimes of honor. …
According to statistics released by the Labor Department on Friday, the official unemployment rate rose to 10.2% in October. Joblessness in the U.S. economy reached its highest level since April 1983. In addressing the lack of job creation as the nation’s gross domestic product grows, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President Richard L. Trumka urged the Obama administration to finance large-scale construction projects …
Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, symbolizing the end of Communist power in 1989 and the beginning of a reunification of Germany. The wall was a separation created between East Berlin and West Berlin as a result of the agreement between the four post-World War II allied powers: the Americans, British, French …
Millions of wild bison once roamed North America before being nearly wiped out in the late 19th century as the United States government attempted to force Native Americans onto reservations. Today the largest concentration of bison remains in the Yellowstone National Park region at a mere 3000 in number. Now, a coalition of environmental and Native American groups filed …
