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The Death of Innocents - Sister Helen Prejean Jul 06, 2010

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This podcast of Tell Somebody features an interview with Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean. Originally broadcast in March, 2007, this interview features Prejean's later book, The Death of Innocents.

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Jay Coghlan on Kansas City and the Nuclear Weapons Complex Jun 29, 2010

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Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch of New Mexico (www.nukewatch.org) speaks about the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and how the soon to be built new weapons components plant in Kansas City is, along with two other new plants in Tennessee and New Mexico, are all about expanding nuclear weapons production in the United States beyond the so-called "life extension program."

Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Weapons and the Kansas City Plant Jun 23, 2010

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On June 17, 2010, Dr. Helen Caldicott was in Kansas City for a speaking engagement, and she stopped by to sit at my table and talk about nuclear weapons and the Kansas City WMD plant. I also asked her to recount her private meeting in the White House with Ronald Reagan.

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Jason Klumb - Regional Administrator, General Services Administration Jun 16, 2010

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Jason Klumb, Administrator for the Heartland Region of the General Services Administration, sat down with Tell Somebody in his south Kansas City office to talk about how he called in doctors from the Centers for Disease Control to look into health concerns among former and current workers at the Bannister Federal Complex. More information at www.tellsomebody.us

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Exposed to radioactive promethium - Ivory Mae Thomas Jun 01, 2010

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A little over twenty years ago, Ivory Mae Thomas was at work on the night shift cleaning offices at the Kansas City branch of the US nuclear weapons complex when someone came to her and said "I've got bad news for you. ...our machine had a little leak, and we discovered you stepped in radiation." They took her to an emergency room at the plant, took her clothes, scrubbed her down, and came to her house in the middle of the night and scrubbed it down. Thomas says she was never told exactly what she had been exposed to until a local television reporter dug it out with FOIA requests twenty years later.

On this edition of Tell Somebody, Ivory Mae Thomas and her son talk about her exposure to radioactive promethium in 1989.

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Dr. Helen Caldicott - Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, & Kansas City May 25, 2010

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Dr. Helen Caldicott, a pediatrician, has, according to her biography at www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org, "devoted over 35 years to educating the public and policymakers about the medical hazards of nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and ecological collapse, and the necessary remedy of citizen participation."

Dr. Caldicott will be coming from Australia to Kansas City to speak on June 17, 2010 (more information at www.tellsomebody.us), and she got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and Kansas City.

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Free Press' Tim Karr - FCC's Ominous Intentions? May 18, 2010

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Tim Karr, Campaign Director for Free Press and SaveTheInternet.com responds to the Kansas City Star's editorial on Net Neutrality headlined as FCC"s ominous intimidation imperils free growth of the Internet.

Also, Kansas City Activist Mary Lindsay gives some of the history leading up to the right wing activist Supreme Court's recent Citizens United v FEC decision.

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Coleen Rowley, Ray McGovern, Mignon Clyburn May 11, 2010

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The May 11, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody features former FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley talks about the Quarles ('ticking time bomb') public safety exception and former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern talks about how "Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America." But first, a few excerpts from FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn's speech made the orning of the broadcast to a Free Press Media Summit. Check out all the links at http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/05/coleen-rowley-and-ray-mcgovern-tonight.html

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Antonia Juhasz - The Tyranny of Oil May 10, 2010

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On the May 4, 2010 editon of Tell Somebody, I played just a few minutes of a phone interview I did with Antonia Juhasz in October, 2008 about what was then her brand new book The Tyranny of Oil - The World's Moswt Powerful Industry - and What We Must Do to Stop It. After listening again, I decided to post the entire interview here.

Juhasz is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies and a senior analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus. She is on the National Advisory Committee of Iraq Veterans Against the War and on the Board of Directors of Coffee Strong. She has taught at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program and as a guest lecturer on U.S. Foreign Policy at the McMaster University Labour Studies Program in a unique educational program with the Canadian Automobile Workers Union.

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Puppy Mills, Oil Spills, & the Prince Who Crawled From the Sewer May 05, 2010

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Barbara Schmitz, Campaign Manager for Missourians for the Protection of Dogs talks about puppy mill reform, Tyson Slocum, Director of Public Citizen's Energy Program talks about the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf, and, from the Tell Somebody archive, part of an October, 2008 conversation with Antonia Juhasz on The Tyranny of Oil. And what did Democracy Now! have to say about Blackwater's Erik Prince? Be sure to check out the links at www.tellsomebody.us

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