The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 178 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 Beau Hodai back on the show to discuss his article for PR Watch and Prison Legal News on how a for-profit prison corporation, CCA, is participating in high school drug sweeps.

We also have David Waldman from Daily Kos and Kagro In The Morning back on the show to give us an update on filibuster reform in the Senate.

We’ll also discuss how ten to fifteen thousand protesters surrounded the capitol after Republicans in Michigan rushed through anti-union legislation and made Michigan a “Right to Work” for less state, and how a State Representative claimed that he enjoyed seeing protesters pepper sprayed.

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Episode 142 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have radio host David Pakman here to discuss different progressive approaches to the 2012 election.

We also have Tim Murphy from Mother Jones Magazine back on the show to discuss the rise of Tea Party rock star Alan West and how a part-time Santa is now a GOP congressional nominee.

We’ll also discuss the horrific execution of a man in Texas who had been diagnosed as mentally retarded and had an IQ of 61.

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Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 128 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Andy Kroll from Mother Jones Magazine here to discuss the over four decade long fight over dark money in politics.

We also have comedian Katie Halper back on the show to discuss the war on women in Michigan and give us an update from the Take Back The American Dream Conference in Washington, DC.

We’ll also discuss how after how I don’t really have the energy to debunk Fast and Furious after Eric Holder’s Justice Department denies a FOIA request on assassinations, President Obama opening up more of the Gulf Coast to drilling, and how Obama and the Democrats past embrace of austerity damages a key argument against Mitt Romney.

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Episode 127 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 labor journalist Josh Eidelson back on the show to discuss how unions can bounce back after Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin and President Obama’s horrible anti-worker trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

We also have Amanda Marcotte from Pandagon back on the show to discuss how anti-choice Republicans in Michigan banned two congresswomen for saying the word vagina and a hysterical new Tumbler blog, Check Mate, Pro Choicers!

We’ll also discuss the use of the People’s Mic at my wedding, jumping off of waterfalls in the Dominican Republic on my honeymoon, and how cargo pants apparently block the blue, naked scanners at airports.

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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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.

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-Matt

We here at the Matthew Filipowicz Show are excited to announce that we are joining the weekend lineup of Public Reality Radio, 1680 AM & 95.3 FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan!

We will be on the air every Saturday night at 8pm-10pm ET! If you don’t live in the broadcast area, which includes a great deal of Michigan and parts of Indiana, you can stream it live on their website.

Again, we want to thank the listeners and members for supporting the show. We couldn’t do this without you!

-Matt

Episode 64 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have artist and journalist Susie Cagle back on the show to tell us about her arrest and horrible treatment by the police at Occupy Oakland.

We also 90’s comedian Connie Howe back on the show to tell us about her visit to Occupy Wall Street.

Plus we have a member of the “Birther” movement here to thank Rick Perry for reviving the issue.

We’ll also be discussing the police violence at Occupy CAL at the University of Berkeley, as well as Rick Perry’s embarrassing memory lapse and Heman Cain’s calling Nancy Pelosi “Princess” at last night’s GOP primary debate.

Our writer/performers today are Tim Grimes 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 have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt