The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 106 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Today’s show is our One Year Anniversary!!!

To celebrate, we have Allison Kilkenny from the Nation Magazine and Citizen Radio back on the show to discuss the arrest of 80 Occupiers in San Francisco and the 99% Spring.

We also have Nixonland author and historian Rick Perlstein here to talk about what progressive activists are doing right and what we still need to work on.

We’ll also discuss Occupy Boston setting up an Camp Charlie on the steps of the Massachusetts State House to protest cuts to public transit and campus police pepper spraying student protesters in Santa Monica, California.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 100 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks back on the show to talk the 2012 election and why it’s so important to get money out of politics.

We’ll also be talking once again to Angelo Carusone from Media Matters about his new campaign against Rush Limbaugh, Stop Rush.

We’ll also discuss the SWAT raid of the homes Occupy Miami protesters and the war on women and contraceptives in the state of Arizona.

Plus, we’ll be talking to Newt Gingrich’s senior campaign adviser and Rush Limbaugh’s advertising executive.

Our writer/performers today are Bob Rok and Chris Sowa.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 96 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 and author of Vulture’s Picnic Greg Palast here to talk about how Mitt Romney’s top funders made billions on the auto bailout.

We’ll also be talking to Katie Klabusich on how the GOP’s war on women personally affected her.

We also have a Republican brand and marketing guru here to discus how GOP candidates are cashing in on their fame.

We’ll also discuss Andrew Breitbart’s death, how the passing of HR 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings And Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, makes some protesting a felony with a penalty of 10 years in prison, and how the Department of Homeland Security is tracking the Occupy Movement.

Our writer/performer today is Chris Sowa.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 68 of The Best Of Matthew Filipowicz Show: Occupy Addition is now available to stream and download.

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Hey everyone.  As you know today is Thanksgiving so today we will be running “The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show”.

However, today’s “best of” has a theme, and it’s the thing that I am politically the most thankful for.  That, of course, is the Occupy movement.

So today we’ll be running some of the best Occupy coverage, sketches, and interviews of the last couple of months, including my account of the police raid at Occupy Boston.

We’ll be running our interviews with:

• Pat Scanlon from Veterans for Peace who was assaulted by police at Occupy Boston
• John Gallagher from Occupy Chicago
• Sam Jewler from Occupy DC
• Martese Chism, a nurse who was arrested at Occupy Chicago
• David Lehnert and Gregg Housh from Occupy Boston

Plus we some of out best Occupy sketches from Tim Grimes, Kate Ward and Chris Sowa.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 59 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have one of the nurses from National Nurses United who was arrested at Occupy Chicago this weekend, Martese Chism, here to talk about her horrible treatment behind bars.

We also have Ari Berman back on the show to talk about his cover story for the Nation Magazine, How The Austerity Class Rules Washington.

We’ll also be talking, once again, to Alternet’s Sarah Jaffe about the five mega banks that hold our country hostage.

Plus we have the founder of an anti-Occupy Wall Street Group here to discuss how billionaires are planning to Occupy the Dollar Store.

We’ll also be discussing the police raid at Occupy Oakland, Rick Perry going birther, Herman Cain’s crazy smoking ad, and the Obama administration’s hiring of a TransCanada oil lobbyist.

Our writer/performer today is Chris Sowa.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 28 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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On today’s show we have labor lawyer and best selling author Tom Geoghegan here to talk about his latest book, Were You Born On The Wrong Continent?

We’ll also be talking to my friend, author and journalist Jeff Biggers about the controversy surrounding Major League Baseball’s All Star Game in Phoenix next week, and its connection to Arizona’s racist SB-1070 immigration law.

We also have Mitt Romney’s head of public relations here to talk about Mitt’s image as a serial flip-flopper.

Plus we have Jon Huntsman’s senior advisor here to try to explain Huntsman’s bizarre political advertisements.

We will also discuss the horrible news that President Barack Obama has put cuts to Medicare and Social Security on the table in the debt ceiling negotiations.

Our writer/performers today are Bob Rok and Chris Sowa.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net. You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook. You call the show hotline 617-855-TMFS.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 20 of the Matthew Filipowicz show is now available to stream and download.

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On today’s show, we have Joan McCarter from Daily Kos here to talk about Democrats and the economy, healthcare, and big banks vs. big retail.

We’ll also be joined by the labor reporter for In These Times Magazine, Mike Elk. Mike will give us an update on the war on unions that’s currently being waged in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Washington and beyond.

We also have Lee Fang from Think Progress here to talk about his recent report on how the Koch Brothers built an oil speculation empire, as well as former Senator Evan Bayh’s new job.

Plus we’ll be joined by a top Republican Strategist, who will give his expert campaign advice to the GOP frontrunners.

Our writer/performer today is Chris Sowa.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook. We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

On Episode 13 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream or download.

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On today’s show, we have journalist, filmmaker and the best selling author of Republican Gommorah, Max Blumenthal here to talk about the Israel-Palestine conflict and this past weekends Nakba protests.

We also have the host of the Nicole Sandler Show, Nicole Sandler here to tell us about her arrest at an Allen West town hall meeting in Florida, just for trying to get her Congressperson to answer a question.

We also have “Rapture Expert” here to tell us what to expect when the apocalypse begins this weekend  Plus we have exclusive, never before heard audio from Fox and Friends.

Our writer/performers this week are James Bespalec-Davis, Tim Grimes, and Chris Sowa.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook. We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt