The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Episode 218 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 David Dayen here to discuss how Obama’s Treasury Department is fighting legislation that would end “Too Big To Fail” Banks.

We also have Chris Faraone back on the show to discuss his new, free e-book on the Boston Marathon attack, Heartbreak Hell.

We’ll also discuss how President Obama is denying both science and a court order with his dangerous new FDA rules for Plan B Emergency Contraception.

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Episode 210 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 author Anne Elizabeth Moore back on the show to discuss her new book on Cambodia, New Girl Law.

We also have Tim Shorrock from the Nation Magazine here to discuss President Obama’s crackdown on whistle blowers.

We’ll also discuss how students at Florida Atlantic University protested and won against a private prison company for naming rights for their stadium, how Kevin Ware’s horrific March Madness injury shows the NCAA’s exploitation of college athletes, North Dakota passing a slew of horrible Anti-Choice bills, and North Carolina is trying to establish an official state religion.

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Episode 193 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have labor journalist Josh Eidelson back on the show to discuss the rise of alt labor movements across the United States.

We also have writer Katie Klabusich back on the show to discuss the frustration of re-fighting battles that have been long since decided legally, like a woman’s right to reproductive health.

We’ll also discuss the former head of FEMA Michael Brown’s repulsive reaction to the power going out at the Super Bowl, as well as my recent visit to New Orleans which included the viewing of a Chewbacca themed Marti Gras parade.

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Episode 192 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Tracy Weitz from Advancing New Standards In Reproductive Health here to discuss their new study finding that abortions are just as safe when performed by nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified mid-wives as when performed by physicians.

We also have Tyler Zimmer from the Occupied Chicago Tribune here to discuss the real effects of austerity when it comes to CTA fare hikes and service cuts.

We’ll also discuss how the economy is now heading into a double dip recession due to the lack of government spending.

Our writer-performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 146 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 managing editor of DeSomgBlog, Brandon DeMelle here to discuss the oil industry attack machine that journalists who cover hyrdo-fracking have to face.

We also have the author of Delirium: The Politics Of Sex In America, Nancy Cohen here to discuss Congressman Todd Akin and the history and funding of the GOP’s war on women.

We’ll also discuss the backwards and regressive party platform that Republicans have passed going into the RNC in Tampa.

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Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

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Episode 145 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 discuss what we know about Trapwire and the problems with for-profit companies partnering with the government to spy on Americans.

We also have Greg Kaufmann from the Nation Magazine’s This Week In Poverty back on the show to discuss how Pennsylvania knocked 91,000 children off of Medicaid and to give us an update on the Houston janitors strike.

We’ll also discuss how Congressman Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” controversy is part of a disturbing trend of mainstreaming extreme ideas in the GOP’s War On Women.

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Our writer/performer today is Kate Ward.

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Episode 133 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Robin Marty from RH Reality Check here to discuss how an Idaho abortion case could have national repercussions for women’s health.

We also have Rob Boston from Americans United For The Separation Of Church And State back on the show to explain why the United States is not and has never been a Christian nation.

We’ll also discuss Texas Governor Rick Perry rejecting the Medicaid expansion to the Affordable Care Act and comparing Medicaid to the Titanic.

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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 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 109 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 patient and activist from the Mental Health Movement, Margaret Sullivan here to talk about occupying a clinic in Chicago to protest Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s cuts to mental health services.

We also have Ari Berman from the Nation Magazine back on the show to discuss why the Supreme Court matters.

We’ll also discuss the Occupy Sleepful protests in New York and Boston, a Boston police officer choking an Occupier at a homophobic Tea Party rally and the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka saying President Obama is making it hard for unions to energize members with his labor policies.

We also have an ad on how pregnancy now begins before conception in Jan Brewer’s Arizona.

Our writer/performer today is 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