The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 211 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 batch of interviews recorded live at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado!

We have musician Kimya Dawson here to discuss art, activism and her new project with Aesop Rock, the Uncluded.

We have Steve Horn from DeSmogBlog back on the show to discuss how Exxon is running all aspects of the tar sands pipeline oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.

We have Alice Ollstein and George Lavender here to talk about their journalist collective, Free Speech Radio News.

And we have the author of War Made Easy, Norman Solomon here to discuss how politicians and the press continue to spin us into war.

We’ll also discuss President Barack Obama is proposing to cut the social safety net in his Grand Bargain with Republicans.

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Episode 209 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have author and historian Rick Perlstein back on the show to discuss how Chicago teachers and activists are fighting back against Rahm Emanuel’s Shock Doctrine school closings.

We also have Stanford professor Mark Jacobson here to discuss his study that found that New York State could transfer to 100% renewable energy by 2030.

We’ll also discuss the tar sands pipeline oil spill in an Arkansas neighborhood, and how we could be seeing a lot more spills if the Keystone XL Pipeline is approved.

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Episode 207 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Amanda Marcotte back on the show to discuss rape culture, the Steubenville trial and how the story of an abused cat shows us how we should deal with instances of abused women.

We also have independent journalist Rania Khalek back on the show to discuss the lack of NYPD accountability when it comes to policies like stop and frisk as well as shootings, including the killing of 16 year old Kimani Gray.

We’ll also discuss how the State Department hid the fact that it’s environmental assessment report on the Keystone XL Pipeline was done by former TransCanada contractors, as well as a new scientific study that claims New York State could switch to 100% renewable energy by 2030 if it chose to.

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Episode 204 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Greg Kaufmann from the Nation Magazine’s This Week In Poverty back on the show to discuss a proposed Anti-Poverty Contract for 2013.

We also have activist Isobel Arthen here to discuss how protesters staged a mock Funeral For Our Future at TransCanada’s Massachusetts office this week to protest the Keystone Tarsands XL Pipeline.

We’ll also discuss the leaked Bradley Manning audio from the Freedom of The Press Foundation and the hypocrisy of those who leaked the classified information in the New York Times puff piece on Anwar Alwaki’s assassination.

Here is the photo that we discuss in today’s show.

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Episode 196 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Nick Baumann from Mother Jones Magazine here to talk about how high speed trading may be a ticking time bomb for our economy.

We also have journalist and filmmaker Greg Palast back on the show to discuss how Obama’s proposed voting commission is not enough, the potential nomination of Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary, and how, if approved, the Keystone XL pipeline will make the Koch Brothers billions.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama’s hypocrisy in blaming the Republicans for the sequestration considering he signed the bill, as well as 48 people getting arrested at the White House to try and stop the Keystone XL Tarsands Pipeline.

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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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Episode 175 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Les Leopold back on the show to discuss how Wall Street has been spared being a part of the bogus Fiscal Cliff negotiations.

We also have comedian Lee Camp back on the show to discuss Occupy Sandy, Rolling Jubilee, and how he’s giving away his first comedy album for free.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama’s likely choice for Secretary of State, Susan Rice, has millions of dollars invested in the Keystone XL Pipeline company Transcanada, Tarsands Blockade activists barricading themselves inside the actual pipe, and how temperatures are rising faster than expected.

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Episode 171 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have independent journalist Rania Khalek here to discuss the horror that is occurring in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

We also have Josh Eidelson back on the show to give us an update on the upcoming Black Friday Walmart Strikes.

We’ll also discuss how the mainstream media barely covered 3,000 people marching on the White House to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, Texas police running over and pepper spraying members of the Tar Sands Blockade, SUNY Buffalo getting rid of its Fracking Institute, and how a private prison company is partnering with gangs to save money on security guards.

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Episode 168 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have filmmaker Eugene Jarecki here to talk about his new documentary on the drug war, The House I Live In.

We also have Ron Seifert from the Tar Sands Blockade back on the show to give us an update on those putting their bodies on the line to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline.

We’ll also discuss what progressives should focus on now that the election is over, Bill O’Reilly lamenting the fall of white America, Donald Trump calling for a revolution, and more.

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Episode 155 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Professor Noam Chomsky here to discuss Occupy Wall Street’s one year anniversary and how progressives and activists should approach the 2012 election.

We’ll also discuss Rahm Emanuel’s City Council Floor Leader threatening to take away Chicago Teachers’ right to strike, President Obama opening 38 million more acres of the Gulf coast for off-shore drilling, and Tar Sands Blockade activists climbing and occupying 80 foot tall trees to block the Keystone XL Pipeline. 

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Our writer/performer today was Tim Grimes.

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Matthew Filipowicz interviews Professor Noam Chomsky.
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