The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 203 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Natasha Lennard from Salon here to discuss how the debate on drones is getting muddled.

We also have Allison Kilkenny from the Nation Magazine and Citizen Radio back on the show to discuss how President Obama’s early career should have given us plenty of clues about his economic outlook, as well as the great work of the Occupy Wall Street off-shoot, Strike Debt.

We’ll also discuss the fact that since Attorney General Eric Holder has claimed that Wall Street is too big to prosecute, we should consider pushing for his resignation, firing or impeachment.

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Episode 199 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 CIA and military’s hidden presence on college campuses.

We also have Victoria Law here to discuss the danger of states cutting prison budgets, while not cutting prison populations.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, had a provision in his contract at CitiGroup giving him a bonus if he quit to take a job as a high ranking government official, as well as the Obama administration refusing to state if they believe they can assassinate American citizens without a trial on US soil.

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

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Coming up on today’s show, we have writer and radio host Molly Knefel here to discuss what the New York City bus strike can teach us about the real impact of austerity.

We also have journalist Antonia Juhasz back on the show to discuss the new war for Afghanistan’s untapped oil.

We’ll also discuss how while it’s positive that we’re discussing the epidemic of gun violence in the US, turning schools into armed camps is not the answer.

Our writer-performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 180 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Boots Riley from the hip hop group the Coup here to discuss art, activism and his new album, Sorry To Bother You.

We also have Kade Crockford from the ACLU of Massachusetts back on the show to give us an update on the privacy harvesting NCTC and the Disposition Matrix kill list.

We’ll also discuss how President Barack Obama has offered to cut Social Security and give the rich a tax cut in the bogus fiscal cliff negotiations and what we can do to stop it.

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Episode 118 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have the political editor of the Progressive Magazine, Ruth Conniff, here to give us an update of the Scott Walker recall battle in Wisconsin.

We also have author Matthew Gross here to discuss his new book, The Last Myth: What The Rise Of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us About America.

We’ll also discuss how Kansas now allows pharmacists to deny birth control to women, how President Obama’s HHS has endorsed dangerous abstinence-only education, a federal judge striking down parts of the NDAA, and President Obama’s frightening executive order on Yemen.

We’ll also talk to the Chicago Deputy Chief of Police about Rahm Emanuel’s plans for the NATO protests.

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 116 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have comedian, independent journalist and co-host of Radio Dispatch John Knefel on the show to tell us about his lawsuit against the NYPD for their actions against the Occupy movement.

We also have author John Sheirer here to talk about his book, Tales of a Real American Liberal.

We’ll also discuss North Carolina’s passing of Amendment One and the range of reaction on the left to President Obama’s support of marriage equality announcement.

We also have the star of the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk back on the show to discuss marriage equality.

Our writer/performer today is Bob Rok.

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Episode 61 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have the former lead singer of the band Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty here to give his take on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

We’ll also be talking to John Ford, one of the protesters at Occupy Boston, about how the occupiers at Dewey Square are preparing for the winter.

We also have Jamie Henn from Tar Sands Action back on the show to talk about how protesters will surround the White House this Sunday, November 6th, to demand that President Obama reject the proposed Keystone tar sands XL Pipeline.

Plus we have a spokesperson for GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain here to respond to allegations that Cain sexually harassed former employees.

We’ll also be discussing updates at Occupy Oakland, Occupy Nashville and Herman Cain’s campaign finance scandal.

Our writer/performers today are Bob Rok, Tim Grimes 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

Recently on the show, I talked to my friend, historian and Nixonland author Rick Perlstein, on the growing divide between President Obama and the labor movement.

Does Obama have a chance in 2012 without labor firmly in his corner? Take a look.

You can listen to the entire interview here.