The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 231 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts back on the show to discuss the latest NSA spying revelations from Edward Snowden.

We also have Josh Bolotsky from the Other 98% here to talk about our upcoming live-riffing of Atlas Shrugged Part One at Netroots Nation.

We’ll also discuss 22 people getting arrested in Chicago to protest the Keystone XL Tarsands Pipeline, and how TransCanada briefed and trained law enforcement, calling protesters potential terrorists.

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Episode 230 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 Steve Horn back on the show to discuss the latest Keystone XL pipeline updates, including dents and anomalies already showing up in the Southern portion, and how President Obama’s former communications director, Anita Dunn, is profiting off the pipeline.

We also have comedian Katie Halper back on the show to discuss her new documentary, Commie Camp.

We’ll also discuss how a member of Anonymous who helped expose the Steubenville rape scandal could face more prison time than the rapists themselves.

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

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Dave Johnson from Campaign for America’s Future here to discuss how congress manufactured the crisis that threatens the United States Post Office today.

We also have comedian and host of Absurdity Today, Julianna Forlano back on the show to discuss the Keystone Pipeline protest and the NDAA.

We’ll also discuss how Facebook made 1.1 billion dollars last year but paid zero in taxes, how a football stadium in Florida is being named for the second largest private prison, GEO Group, and how President Obama was golfing with oil executives while tens of thousands protested the Keystone Tarsands XL pipeline.

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 197 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have David Dayen back on the show to discuss the 1 year anniversary of the Financial Fraud Mortgage Crisis Task Force that doesn’t actually exist.

We also have Jane Kleeb from Bold Nebraska back on the show to give us an update from this past weekend’s Keystone XL Pipeline protest in Washington, DC.

We’ll also discuss the plans to escalate civil disobedience if President Obama approves the XL pipeline, and how the Pope will remain in the Vatican after he resigns to keep from being prosecuted.

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Episode 190 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 Lawrence Lessig here to discuss the corrupting influence of money in politics and what we can do to stop it.

We also have journalist Steve Horn here to discuss Barack Obama’s EPA censoring a damning report on hydro-fracking.

We’ll also discuss Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman flip flopping and approving the Nebraska portion of the TransCanada Keystone pipeline, the Sierra Club saying it will engage in civil disobedience to stop it, and Virginia Republicans sneaking through a gerrymandering vote to disenfranchise voters on Inauguration Day.

Our writer-performer today is Frank Chow.

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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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