The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 195 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine here to discuss how conservatives and the Supreme Court may destroy the Voting Rights Act.

We also have independent journalist Sarah Jaffe back on the show to discuss Seattle teachers refusing to administer a for-profit company’s standardized test and the cost of emotional labor in the service industry.

We’ll also discuss how after 14 months of waiting for their day in court, the prosecutors office suddenly dropped the charges against those arrested in the Occupy Boston raids.

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Episode 184 The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Happy New Year, everybody!  The show is off this week for the holidays.  As such, we are running the Best of The Matthew Filipowicz Show with some of our favorite interviews, stories, and sketches!  All of us at the show hope you have a great holiday season and a happy progressive new year!

Coming up on today’s best of show, we have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine back on the show to recap what happened on election day in terms of the GOP’s War on Voting, and to discuss how the Supreme Court may gut the Voting Rights Act.

We also have activist and independent journalist Laura Gottesdiener here to discuss the horrific costs and consequences of placing prisoners in solitary confinement.

We’ll also discuss how many states are threatening to secede after Barack Obama’s reelection.

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Episode 170 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine back on the show to recap what happened on election day in terms of the GOP’s War on Voting, and to discuss how the Supreme Court may gut the Voting Rights Act.

We also have comedian and filmmaker Katie Halper back on the show to give us her take on last week’s election.

We’ll also discuss how many states are threatening to secede after Barack Obama’s reelection and what the David Petraeus scandal shows us about our broken security state.

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Episode 160 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine here to give us an update on the GOP’s war on voting.

We also have Josh Eidelson back on the show to tell us about the strikes that are popping up at Walmarts across the country.

We’ll also discuss journalists arrested at the Tar Sands Blockade, how FOIA requests are being outsourced to companies like CACI International, and President Obama’s confusing and ridiculous comments about civil liberties.

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Episode 131 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick back on the show to give us her take on the Supreme Court’s health care, SB1070 and campaign finance rulings.

We also have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine here to give us his take on the courts and to give us an update on the GOP’s war on voting.

We’ll also discuss how GOP Governors refusing to expand Medicaid will lead to millions of uninsured and how Mitt Romney and Bain Capitol made millions disposing of aborted fetuses.

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 125 of The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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As many of you know, I just got married and am currently on my honeymoon!  As such, we are running The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show.

On today’s show, we have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine back on the show to discuss why the Supreme Court matters.

We also have journalist, author and activist Antonia Juhasz on the show to talk about the hidden health crisis of the BP oil spill.

Our writer/performers today is Kate Ward and Bob Rok.

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Episode 112 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Salon’s Alex Pareene here to talk about his new e-book on Mitt Romney, The Rude Guide To Mitt.

We also have comedian, writer and director Andy Cobb here to talk about apathy towards the 2012 elections and how he’s jealous of the Nation’s Ari Berman.

We’ll also discuss Occupy’s May Day plans, the Governor of Mississippi claiming that Democrats one mission in life is to abort children, Connecticut abolishing the death penalty, the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s racist SB1070 law, and how we shackle students in America with crippling debt.

We also have a television executive here to defend how the Sunday news talk shows feature overwhelmingly white, male, Republican guests.

Our writer/performer today is Bob Rok.

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Episode 109 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have a patient and activist from the Mental Health Movement, Margaret Sullivan here to talk about occupying a clinic in Chicago to protest Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s cuts to mental health services.

We also have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine back on the show to discuss why the Supreme Court matters.

We’ll also discuss the Occupy Sleepful protests in New York and Boston, a Boston police officer choking an Occupier at a homophobic Tea Party rally and the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka saying President Obama is making it hard for unions to energize members with his labor policies.

We also have an ad on how pregnancy now begins before conception in Jan Brewer’s Arizona.

Our writer/performer today is Kate Ward.

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-Matt

Episode 90 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine back on the show to discuss his cover story on how the GOP is currently re-segregating the South.

We’ll also be talking once again to Sam Jewler from Occupy DC about his account of the violent pre-dawn police raid at McPherson Square that left one Occupier in the hospital with a cracked skull.

We also have a response to Pete Hoekstra’s horribly racist China ad, and we’ll discuss a surprising new report that finds that a majority of American women would support a law forcing them to take their husbands name if they got married.

Our writer/performers today are Kate Ward, Amy Gard and Frank Chow.

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-Matt

Episode 75 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 photographer Zach Roberts here to talk about his arrest at Occupy Wall Street’s D17 action.

We also have Ari Berman from the Nation and Rolling Stone back on the show to give us an update the GOP’s War on Voting.

We’ll also be talking once again to Kate Sheppard from Mother Jones Magazine on the latest Keystone XL pipeline developments and what went down at the Durban Climate Talks in South Africa.

Plus we have an exclusive new ad from the Newt Gingrich campaign about Newt’s stance that he will ignore the Supreme Court and arrest judges that he disagrees with.

We’ll also discuss Occupy Boston’s “Pro-Corporate” march, the formation of Occupy Allston-Brighton, and PolitiFact’s shameful naming of Republicans voting to end Medicare as its “Lie of the Year.”

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