The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 189 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, on the 40th anniversary of Roe Vs. Wade we have Lynn Paltrow from the National Advocates For Pregnant Women here to discuss a shocking new study on the arrests and forced interventions of pregnant women since 1973.

We also have journalist and activist Joshua Eaton back on the show to discuss the epidemic of self immolation that’s occurring in Tibet.

We’ll also discuss five people getting shot at Gun Appreciation Day events, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker celebrating the Roe anniversary by declaring it Protect Life Day, Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day speech, and how we must remember to honor the entire legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, including the fact that the FBI sent him a letter telling him to commit suicide.

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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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Episode 153 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Brendan Fischer from the Center For Media and Democracy back on the show to discuss what happens now that Scott Walker’s anti-union law has been ruled unconstitutional.

We also have author and journalist Jeff Biggers back on the show to discuss his new book State Out Of The Union: Arizona And The Final Showdown Over The American Dream.

We’ll also discuss S17, the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and Mitt Romney’s horrible hidden camera 47% speech.  Plus, in honor of next week’s interview with Noam Chomsky, we have the return of “The Most Noam Chomsky You’ll Hear On The Radio Today!”

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Our writer/performer today is Josh Bolotsky.

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Episode 152 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 labor lawyer Jonathan Rosenblum here to discuss how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is having people arrested and ticketed for holding signs and singing protest songs and sending Capitol police to protester’s homes.

We also have comedian and satirist Lee Camp back on the show to discuss the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and different progressive approaches to the 2012 election.

We’ll also discuss the embassy attacks and how a man who just died at Guantanamo Bay was cleared for release three years ago.

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Episode 151 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Cheri Honkala back on the show to discuss her campaign with Jill Stein and getting arrested while Occupying Fannie Mae.

We also have journalist and author Greg Palast back on the show to discuss his new book, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How To Steal An Election In 9 Easy Steps.

We’ll also discuss the Chicago Teachers Strike, how Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support Rahm Emanuel’s efforts in busting the teacher’s union, where President Obama stands on the strike, and what progressives can learn from the CTU.

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Episode 149 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’s Josh Eidelson back on the show to discuss how the Democrats poor treatment of unions, and the choice of Charlotte for the DNC hurts them, even as Republicans adopt Scott Walker’s anti-union strategy in their national platform.

We also have activist Ron Seifert from Tar Sands Blockade here to tell the story of seven people who were arrested after chaining themselves to a TransCanada truck to block the Keystone XL Pipeline.

We’ll also discuss the Obama administration announcement that there will be no prosecutions in George W. Bush’s CIA torture cases.

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Our writer/performer today is Kate Ward.

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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 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.

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.

Episode 99 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’s Glenn Greenwald here to discuss Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech claiming the power to assassinate American citizens without a trial.

Plus, we’ll also be talking to the former mayor of Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson about his running for President under the Justice Party ticket.

We’ll also discuss updates on the War on Voting in Texas and Wisconsin, Scott Walker forming a legal defense fund, and an US soldier massacring 16 civilians in Afghanistan.

Plus, we also have an assistant district attorney here to defend Obama’s assassination program

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Rob Boston from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State here to talk about five Founding Fathers whose skepticism on Christianity would make them unelectable today.

We also have Mary Bottari from the Center for Media and Democracy back on the show to give us an update on the Scott Walker recall and the campaign to break up Bank Of America.

We’ll also discuss the State of the Union speech, the recording of this month’s Bad-Ass Members Only Bonus Episode after the Drinking Liberally Chicago SOTU Watch party, and the creation of a new Justice Department mortgage crisis task force.

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-Matt