The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 222 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Mychal Denzel Smith from the Nation Magazine here to discuss the ridiculous placement of Assata Shakur on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list.

We also have Anna Marie Taylor here to discuss the new memoir she edited by the late labor journalist James Lerner, Coarse of Action.

We’ll also discuss how the Fast Food Workers Strikes have spread to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as a new study that found one out of every five children in the United States is living below the poverty line.

Plus TMFS writer-performer Bob Rok gives us his take on the racist writings of Jason Richwine from the Heritage Foundation.

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Episode 221 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have the President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, here to discuss Rahm Emanuel’s war on public education in Chicago.

We also have journalist Sarah Jaffe back on the show to discuss how a union in Oregon using collective bargaining talks to go after the big banks that wrecked the economy.

We’ll also discuss 19 people getting shot at a Mother’s Day Parade in New Orleans, the DOJ secretly getting journalist’s phone records at the AP, how we’ve passed the dangerous carbon milestone of 400 ppm and what that means for our species.

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Episode 220 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Jeff Biggers back on the show to discuss how Illinois ranks as the worst rogue coal state, and how Governor Pat Quinn has joined the climate change denying coal bandwagon.

We also have Alice Ollstein from Free Speech Radio News back on the show to discuss the shocking new Pentagon report on sexual assault in the military, as well as how the Air Force Lieutenant in charge of sexual assault prevention has been arrested for sexual assault himself.

We’ll also discuss how the DOJ and FBI still don’t think they need a warrant to read your email, as well as a former FBI agent claiming that all digital communications, including phone calls, are recorded by the government.

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Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 219 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Bryce Covert from ThinkProgress back on the show to discuss the cost of the sequester and austerity on the poor.

We also have Joan McCarter from Daily Kos back on the show to discuss the ridiculous response to the Oregon Medicaid study and the cost of over half of the states refusing Medicaid expansion.

We’ll also discuss the idiots who are protesting outside the funeral home where the first Boston Marathon bomber’s body is being held and the refusal of Cambridge to bury his body.

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Episode 218 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist David Dayen here to discuss how Obama’s Treasury Department is fighting legislation that would end “Too Big To Fail” Banks.

We also have Chris Faraone back on the show to discuss his new, free e-book on the Boston Marathon attack, Heartbreak Hell.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama is denying both science and a court order with his dangerous new FDA rules for Plan B Emergency Contraception.

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Hey everybody!

The April 2013 edition of Matthew Filipowicz Bad-Ass Members Only Bonus Episode is now available!  

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Not only do you get the joy in your heart of supporting independent progressive media, not only do you get our monthly bonus episodes, but you’ll also receive other perks like t-shirts, stickers, personalized animations and more!  Plus, once we reach 100 members, we will go to three shows a week!

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As always, our bonus episodes give you a chance to get to know our amazing writer/performers better as we do our version of the McLaughlin Group, which we’ve dubbed the Filipowicz Forum.

This month’s forum features writer/performers Tim Grimes, Frank Chow and Bob Rok.

We talk the reaction to the Boston Marathon, the Fast Food Workers Strike, what nerdy movies we’re looking forward to this summer and more!

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Episode 217 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist Micah Uetricht here discuss Strike For 15, the Fast Food Worker’s Strike in Chicago, Illinois.

We also have Richard Eskow back on the show to discuss how the austerity “spread sheet” fiasco, should put an end to the debate on using the Chained CPI for Social Security.

We’ll also discuss the latest developments in the Boston Marathon attack, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg saying we need to re-interpret the Constitution, and the denying of a lawyer to the second bombing suspect.

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Episode 216 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have journalist Lee Fang back on the show to discuss his new book on the Right Wing infrastructure, The Machine: A Field Guide To The Resurgent Right.

We also have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts back on the show to discuss the calls for more surveillance and drones after the Boston Marathon attacks, as well as how the media is irresponsibly tossing around the term radicalization.

We’ll also discuss the latest developments in the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion.

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Episode 215 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Robin Marty from RH Reality Check back on the show to discuss her new book on the battle for women’s health, Crow After Roe: How Separate But Equal Has Become The New Standard In Women’s Health And How We Can Change That.

And in an interview recorded at the National Conference for Media Reform, we have Tim Pool here to discuss activism, journalism, and how new technology helps democratize the media.

We’ll also discuss the latest Boston Marathon bombing updates.

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