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  • Discussing the book "Woody Guthrie: A Life," with Joe Klein

    Nov. 17, 1980

    Program includes an excerpt of an interview with Woody Guthrie.

  • Discussing the book "The Trimtab Factor: How Business Executives Can Help Solve the Nuclear Weapons Crisis" with Harold Willens.

    Feb. 1, 1984
  • Discussing the book "The Next Left: The History of a Future" with the author Michael Harrington

    Feb. 20, 1987
  • Discussing the book "The New American Poverty," with the author Michael Harrington

    May. 1, 1984
  • Discussing the Beyond Beef campaign with executive director and family farmer Howard Lyman

    Apr. 1, 1993

    The Beyond Beef campaign opposes the "cattle culture" of over-production and over-consumption of beef and advocates a fifty percent cut in beef consumption.

  • Discussing the album "Unfinished Portraits," with folksinger, songwriter, guitarist and political activist Si Kahn

    Jan. 10, 1985
  • Discussing the album "Folksongs of the American dream," with folksinger Joe Glazer

    Aug. 26, 1994
  • Discussing Nicaragua with authors and activists Charles Gray and Dorothy Granada

    Apr. 2, 1992
  • Discussing grassroots organizing with folk singer and activist Si Kahn and Rev. James Williams

    Mar. 12, 1992
  • Daniel Ellsberg discusses nuclear warfare and its worldwide impact

    Feb. 14, 1994

    Interviewing former government official, Vietnam War opponent, and political activist Daniel Ellsberg. Program includes an excerpt of a 1980 interview with Ellsberg. Includes a test tone lasting about 20 seconds. Content Warning: This conversation has the presence of outdated, biased, offensive language. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.

  • Cleve Jones talks about the AIDS quilt (NAMES project)

    Cleve Jones talks about the NAMES Project Foundation and AIDS quilt

    Sep. 7, 1988

    Cleve Jones talks about the AIDS quilt (NAMES project) that he started, the politics surrounding treating AIDS, and the compassionate feelings that the quilt engenders (compared to American barn raisings). There is a postscript with Mike Savage from Dignity Chicago, a lesbian and gay Catholic organization.

  • Charlie Litkey discusses the impact and significance of winning a Congressional Medal of Honor

    Feb. 3, 1987

    Discussing the impact and significance of winning a Congressional Medal of Honor with recipient Charlie Litkey. A chaplain with the 25th Infantry in 1967, Litkey received the Medal of Honor for pulling several wounded soldiers to safety without regard to his own safety.

  • An interview with Philip Stern

    Jun. 28, 1988

    The investigative journalist joins Studs to discuss his latest book, The Best Congress Money Can Buy.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • A conversation with Philip Stern

    Mar. 6, 1984

    Discussing the nature and function of political action committees (PACs) with the co-chairman of Citizens Against PACs.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

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