The Matthew Filipowicz Show

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

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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 filmmaker Eugene Jarecki here to talk about his documentary on the drug war, The House I Live In.

We also have artist and author Anne Elizabeth Moore back on the show to discuss her new book on Cambodia, Hip Hop Apsara.

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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Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes, Sticher 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.

Episode 172 The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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The show is off today for the holiday.  As such, today and Tuesday, we are running the Best of The Matthew Filipowicz Show with some of our favorite interviews, stories, and sketches!

Coming up on today’s best of show, we have Professor Noam Chomsky here to discuss the balance of electoral politics and activism.

We have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts here to talk about what we know about Trapwire, and the problems with for-profit companies partnering with the government to spy on Americans.

We’ll also discuss the death of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who had been cleared for release 3 years ago.

Our writer-performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 78, The Best Of Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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The show is off this week for the holidays, so today we will be running “The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show” with some of our favorite interviews and sketches.

Coming up on today’s show, we have Rania Khalek from Alternet here to discuss the militarized police response against the Occupy movement, as well as some of the crazy and horrible weapons police have at their disposal.

We’ll also be talking to investigative journalist Lee Fang about his experience filming the Walk Of Shame at Occupy UC Davis.

Our writer/performers today are Bob Rok, Tim Grimes, Lauren Maul and Josh Bolotsky.

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

Hey everybody.

As you may know this weekend I attended the Living Liberally Conference in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Unfortunately, my return flight was canceled and delayed by a day, so due to that, today we are running some of our favorite interviews and sketches that you may have missed.  This is the Best of the Matthew Filipowicz Show.

Episode 51, The Best Of Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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On today’s show, we have we have the national security correspondent for the Nation Magazine, Jeremy Scahill, back on the show to discuss his report on secret CIA camps and operations in Somalia.

We also have America’s #1 Populist Jim Hightower here to give us the inside scoop on Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Our writer/performers today are Josh Bolotsky, Bob Rok, Tim Grimes, Amy Gard and Kate Ward.

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 36, the Best of The Matthew Filipowicz Show, is now available to stream and download.

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As you probably know, we are currently moving to Boston.  As a result, this week we will be running best-of episodes featuring some of our favorite interviews and sketches.

On today’s episode, we have artist and author Anne Elizabeth Moore on to talk about her latest project exploring the role of gender in comics.

We also have the co-founder of Free Press, Robert McChesney here to talk about his latest book the “Death and Life Of American Journalism“.

Plus we have comedy from Bob Rok, Tim Grimes, James Bespalec-Davis, and Frank Chow.

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 will return with all new shows on August 9th.

-Matt

Episode 35, the Best of The Matthew Filipowicz Show, is now available to stream and download.

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As you probably know, we are currently moving to Boston.  As a result, this week we will be running best-of episodes featuring some of our favorite interviews and sketches.

On today’s episode, we’re actually replaying our very first interview with Nixonland author Rick Perlstein on the presidency of Barack Obama. A really interesting interview considering what just went down in the debt ceiling negotiations.

We also have the sports writer for the Nation Magazine Dave Zirin here to discuss his film, Not Just A Game.

Plus we have comedy from Josh Bolotsky and Lauren Maul.

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 will return with all new shows on August 9th.

-Matt