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March 2007
Late City Edition 3/15/07
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: The Bowery Mission combats homelessness; and new NYC health code regulations go into effect
Late City Edition 3/13/07
Host: Francesco Michelassi
Topic: President Bush's trip to Latin America
Late City Edition 3/5/07
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Amiri Baraka
February 2007
Late City Edition 2/22/07
Host: Grace Park
Topic: An update from a lawyer on the Greenpoint oil spill and a commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X
Late City Edition 2/19/07
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Columbia's Feburary 15th Anti-War Protest
January 2007
Late City Edition 1/18/07 (Incomplete Archive)
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: A trip to the WKCR Archives with an Actualities program on Iran and the Middle East from 1982
Late City Edition 1/15/07
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: An analysis of the latest US strikes in Somalia; a reaction to President Bush's latest plan to send more troops to Iraq; a blood shortage in the New York metropolitan area could be catastrophic for local hospitals
Interviews: Mustafah Medani, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies at McGill University; Linda Schade, Executive Director of Voters for Peace; Robert Jones, President and CEO of the New York Blood Center
Late City Edition 1/8/07
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: An update on Columbia's planned Manhattanville expansion; the realities of global warming and what can be done to stop it; a report on felon disenfranchisement in New York
Interviews: Tom DeMott of the Coalition to Preserve Community; Luis Martinez, staff attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council; and Erika Wood, Council at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law
Late City Edition 1/4/07
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topics: The European Union's recent admittance of Bulgaria and Romania as member-states; the effects of the Bhopal gas leak in 1984 still linger; the state of human rights in the Philippines
Interviews: Petia Kostadinova, Assistant Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida; Aquene Freechild of the Environmental Health Fund and the Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal; Brian Campbell, attorney with the International Rights Labor Fund
Late City Edition 1/2/07
Host: Nell Geiser
Topics: Hospital restructuring and closures in NYC eliminate jobs and might seriously impact emergency care; and the New York City Council passes legislation that will hold housing developers more accountable
Interviews: Susan Scheer, author of Emergency Room Care: Will It Be There? and Senior Health Advisor in the Office of the City Comptroller; Paige Bellenbaum, Director of Advocacy for Habitat for Humanity-NYC
Late City Edition 1/1/07
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Those working on popular efforts at public education reform in NYC present an alternative to Mayor Bloomberg's plan Guest: Cecilia Brewer of the Independent Commission on Public Education (iCOPE)
December 2006
Late City Edition 12/21/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: Zvi Galil steps down as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) to take a post as President of Tel Aviv University
Late City Edition 12/14/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: An interview with Robert Jensen, author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege; excerpts from a talk with Afsaneh Najmabadi about transsexuality in Iran
Late City Edition 12/12/06
Host: Ishmael Adjetey Osekre
Reporters: Shoshana Schwartz and Dan Wang
Topics: A Question and Answer with the Iranian Ambassador to the UN; and coverage of a protest against the New England Linen firm which will not allow its workers to unionize
October 2006
Late City Edition 10/26/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Reporters: Avigail Oren and Clevins Browne
Topics: Thousands of protesters rally in New York to demand rights for all immigrants; the launch of the Fantasy Congress website; and Youth Mic's Clevins Browne interviews a poet
Late City Edition 10/12/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Reporter: Ishmael Adjetey Osekre
Topics: Columbia University announces it will hold protesters accountable for the Minutemen brawl; and a round-table discussion on Columbia's decision to suspend the Institute for African Studies
Interviews: Karina Garcia of the Chicano Caucus, Daniel Shaw of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and a group of students from the SIPA Pan-African network
September 2006
Late City Edition 9/28/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: Columbia "celebrates" African Studies, shortly after suspending their Institute for African Studies over the summer
Interviews: Lisa Anderson, Dean of SIPA; Professor George Bond; Professor Barbara Wallace; Professor Abdul Naji
Late City Edition 9/26/06 (Incomplete Archive)
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Reporters: Dan Wang and Grace Park
Topics: More on legal challenges in Hong Kong; attitudes toward the Muslim community on Columbia University's campus; a report from the Making Globalization Work panel
Interviews: Wong Yan-lung, Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Adil Ahmed of Columbia University's Muslim Students Association; Professor Joseph Stiglitz and other panelists
Late City Edition 9/21/06
Host: Dan Wang
Reporter: Leah Rethy
Topics: A report on an anti-war protest in New York; Human rights and rule of law in Hong Kong, which was officially returned to China in 1997
Speaker: Wong Yan-lung, Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Late City Edition 9/19/06
Host: Sean Colenso-Semple
Topic: Study Abroad for College Students
Guests: Daniel Olds, Asia/Pacific Program Director at the Council on International Educational Exchange; Joyce Hau, senior, at Columbia University; Jonathan Schwartz, senior, at Brown University; and Erin March, senior, at George Washington University
Late City Edition 9/7/06
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: Remembering September 11th: the City Museum of New York, the New York Police Museum, and the Twin Towers Alliance
August 2006
Late City Edition 8/31/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: The California State Government reaches an agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent; and a trip to the archives with NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
Interview: Craig Noble, the California Communications Director for the National Resources Defense Council
Late City Edition 8/24/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: New York City transit and the disabled
Guest: Doris Seligman, longtime community activist and advocate for the disabled
Late City Edition 8/22/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topic: Controversial Issues in Education
Guests: Jewelle Gomez, writer, activist, and Program Officer at the Horizons Foundation; Karen King, Associate Professor of Mathematics at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education; Janelle Scott, Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education
Late City Edition 8/17/06 (Incomplete Archive)
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: Bankruptcy Court upholds Northwest Airlines Flight Attendants right to strike; more on Wal-Mart allowing workers to unionize in China
Guests: Rick Thorton, Northwest Airlines Flight Attendant; Chris Kofinis, Communications Director for wakeupwalmart.com
Late City Edition 8/10/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: Airline terrorist threat foiled; Wal-Mart agrees to unions in China
Guests: Rafi Ron, President and CEO of New Age Security Solutions; Chris Kofinis, Communications Director for wakeupwalmart.com
Grey Matters 8/8/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topic: Accents!
Guests: Dialect Coach David Stern, Linguist John Baugh, and British Person Alison Munday
Late City Edition 8/3/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: The MTA plans to install cameras on New York City buses and the extreme heat wave currently enveloping the city
Interviews: MTA Spokesman Charles Seaton and Michael Greenberger, Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland
Late City Edition 8/1/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topics: The state of domestic work in New York and around the globe; and the affordable housing crisis in New York City
Interviews: Erline Brown of Domestic Workers United; Nisha Varia, a researcher for the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch; and Kenneth Rosenfeld, Director of Legal Services at the Upper Manhattan Improvement Corporation
July 2006
Late City Edition 7/27/06
Host: Nat Gale
Topic: Columbia's suspension of the Institute of African Studies (IAS)
Interviews: Lisa Anderson, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Carolyn A. Brown, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Christabel E. Dadzie, President of the Sipa Pan-African Network (SPAN)
Late City Edition 7/25/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topic: Homosexuality and World Cultures
Interviews: Michael Robinson of People of Color in Crisis; Dr. Mark McLelland, Lecturer and Faculty at the University of Wollongong in Australia; Dr Paul Halsall, Lecturer, Researcher, and former Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Florida; and Elton Naswood, Project Coordinator of the Red Circle Project
Late City Edition 7/20/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: The High Line Park
Interview: Joshua David of Friends of the High Line
Grey Matters 7/18/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topic: Music!
Interviews: Professor David Stern of Ohio State University and Steven Pilker from the Muzak Corporation
Late City Edition 7/13/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: The change in Congressional oversight of the National Security Agency (NSA) program and conflict around the SATs Interviews: Lee Tien, Privacy Expert with the Electronic Frontiers Foundation; and David Peterson, an Admissions Consultant for the NY State Senate subpoena of the College Board
Late City Edition 7/11/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topic: Global Warming
Interviews: Dr. Robert Angel, astronomer at the University of Arizona, discusses the need for innovative approaches to fight global warming; Dr. Martin A. Apple, president of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, discusses why the media portrays global warming as a divisive issue despite scientists' near unanimous consensus that it exists; Dr. John Latham, an atmospheric physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, discusses why the United States government has historically failed to recognize global warming; and Dr. Wallace S. Broecker, a Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, explains the scientific principles behind the new approaches to combating global warming.
Late City Edition 7/10/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Dan McSweeney
Topic: A long look at the inner workings of a Morningside Heights apartment building throughout history, courtesy of WKCR reporter Dan McSweeney
Late City Edition 7/6/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: New Jersey introduces a sales tax increase to help balance their state budget (interviews with Assemblymen Jim Waylan and Bill Baroni); the effect of the New Jersey budget shutdown on the Atlantic City Casino (interview with Michael Facenda, Director of Marketing Services a the casino); and an update on the Mexican political climate following the very close presidential election (interview with Nora Hamilton, Political Science Professor at the University of Southern California).
June 2006
Late City Edition 6/29/06 (Incomplete Archive)
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Reporter: Dan McSweeney
Topics: The 50th Anniversary of the Interstate Highway Systems! Congressmen Ron Petry (R-Wisconsin) and Jim Oberstar (D-Minnesota) reflect on present challenges facing the system, while Professor Jonathan L. Gifford of Goerge Mason University talks about its history; and a piece on the Humphrey Bogart ceremony featuring Lauren Bacall as part of our Morningside Now series.
Late City Edition 6/27/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topics: The structure of Wal-Mart's global power as workers in Britain begin
to strike (interview with Aaron Brenner, co-author of a strategic corporate research report on Wal-Mart); and the impact of the California state minimum wage increase according to University of California research economist Arindrajit Dube.
Late City Edition - 6/22/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: A trip to the archives with a WKCR News Subway Special from 1982.
Late City Edition - 6/20/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Reporter: Jesse Chanin
Topics: Discussion of the UN's World Refugee Day and child refugees with Harvard Professor Jacqueline Bhabha; the state of welfare in New York according to Sandra Collette of Community Voices Heard; and new findings regarding racial biases in the death penalty according to Sheri Johnson of Cornell University's Law School.
Late City Edition - 6/19/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: Marie Clark Brill of Africa Action speaks of their rallies and vigils to encourage the UN to take action on Darfur; Sonia Ossorio of the National Organization for Women talks about eliminating the 5 year statute of limitations on rape; and an NYU report details skyrocketing rents in New York City (Vicki Been, author of the report, and Jenny Laurie of the Met Council on Housing).
Late City Edition - 6/15/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: Columbia University celebrates the work of Allan Rosenfield at a day long symposium on AIDS and public health. Speakers: Former President Bill Clinton, Columbia Public Health Dean Allan Rosenfield, United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, and others.
Late City Edition - 6/13/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topics: M. Eric Johnson, Professor of Operations Management at Dartmouth's Tuck School, discusses corporate security in an era of globalization and communication; Margaret Clarke, Professor of Psychology at Yale, talks about the mystery behind love-hate relationships; and David Studdert, Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), discusses a new HSPH study that "casts doubts" on claims that the medical industry is plagued by frivolous lawsuits.
Late City Edition - 6/8/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Dan McSweeney
Topics: The Cambodia Project works to build a middle school in Cambodia, another installment of Morningside Now, and a report on prison recidivism rates among women in New York State from the Columbia Journalism School
Interview: Jean-Michel Tijerina of the Cambodia Project at Columbia University
Grey Matters - 6/6/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topic: Stories
Guests: Authors Brett Leveridge, Madge McKeithen and Ian Blake Newman
Late City Edition - 6/5/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: Expert Mari Frank talks about identity theft at Hotels.com; Peter Moore, Editor of Best Life Magazine, discusses the intensity of summer jobs; and a segment on racism by Youth Mic's Samuel Rogerio Weinstein
Late City Edition - 6/1/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: The New York City restaurant industry
Interviews: Chuck Hunt of the New York State Restaurant Association, Tiffany Barbalato from Zagat, and Toney Edwards, owner of Le Madeline
May 2006
Late City Edition - 5/30/06 (Incomplete Archive)
Host: Nell Geiser
Topics: The shrinkage of affordable housing in New York City and a speech by Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ibadi
Interview: Tom Waters of the Community Service Society
Late City Edition - 5/29/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: Memorial Day peace marches and protests and a report released by NYU compares Immigrant and native-born students in the New York City public schools
Interviews: Amy Ellen Schwartz, director of the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University, Samuel Delgado, an organizer from the Young Communist League, Thomas Good, an organizer with students for a Democratic Society, and Michael Sussman of the Orange County Democratic Alliance
Late City Edition - 5/25/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: The US House of Representatives votes to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and a view of life as a pedicab driver from the Columbia Journalism School
Interviews: Lydia Weiss, an advocate for Defenders of Wildlife and Cindy Shogan, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League
Late City Edition - 5/22/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topics: The Study of Congress Exist Interviews Project, Brown University releases a report titled, "Hurricane Katrina Reshaped the Political Map of New Orleans," and how our changing society can meet the needs of children
Interviews: Linda Douglas, Senior Fellow at the Brademas Center, John R. Logan, Professor of Sociology at Brown University, and Dr. Jane Waldfogel, Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work
Late City Edition - 5/16/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: Felon disenfranchisement contested by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, an opinion on why blacks are not participating in great numbers in the visible anti-war movement, the campaign to lower class sizes in the NYC public schools, and an update on the UTW strike last December
Interviews: Ryan Haygood, the assistant council at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, writer and activist Kenyon Farrow, Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, and Bill Van Auken, the Socialist Equality Party's candidate for US Senate in 2006
Late City Edition - 5/15/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Dan McSweeney
Topics: The second installment of Morningside Now and a report released by City Projects titled "Fatal Subtraction" details the cost to the city of property tax exemptions for religious, charitable, and educational organizations
Interview: Bonnie Brower, former executive director of City Projects and prime author of the report
Grey Matters - 5/11/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topics: Graduation
Interview: David Rakoff, author of "Don't Get Too Comfortable" and a Columbia University graduate
Late City Edition - 5/9/06
Host: Jason Frazer
Topics: Tips to help deal with allergies and the inner workings of pay phones in New York City
Late City Edition - 5/8/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: The Fresh Kills landfill in New York, Foster Care Teens, and Medicare Drug Plans, all from Columbia's Journalism School
Late City Edition - 5/4/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topic: The geopolitics and production capacity of the world's oil and the growing population of indigenous Mexicans in New York City (from Columbia's Journalism School)
Interview: James Paul of the Global Policy Forum
Late City Edition - 5/2/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: Cell phones in schools, the Columbia College Student Council Elects a new president, and a feature from Columbia University's Journalism School
Interviews: Michelle Boden, Vice President for Elementary Schools for New York's United Federation of Teachers, and Seth Flaxman, Columbia College Student Council President-Elect
Late City Edition - 5/1/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Hannah Temple
Topics: Columbia's divestment in Sudan, the National Day of Action for Immigrants' Rights, and Manhattanville residents protest Columbia's proposed expansion on Columbia's campus
Interviews: Reverend Rodriguez of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Wanda Salaman, Executive Director of Mothers on the Move, and Susan Brown, Director of the Office of Public Affairs at Columbia University
April 2006
Grey Matters - 4/27/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topic: Laughter
Interviews: Psychologist Robert Provine, author of "Laughter" and Comedian Rich Duncan
Late City Edition - 4/24/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topics: Political unrest in Nepal and a documentary from Columbia's Journalism School on High-Stakes Testing in NYC
Interviews: Kathryn March, professor of Anthropology, Feminist Studies, and Public Affairs, and David Holmberg, chair of the anthropology department and a professor of Asian Studies, both at Cornell University
Late City Edition - 4/20/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topics: A study reveals New York restaurants that violate labor laws also have poor health and safety records; a look at New York's animal control system by Mary-Rose Abraham of the Columbia J-School; an update from Families For Freedom, who will demonstrate in Washington, DC Monday to protect immigrant families from deportation
Interviews: Rajani Adhikary of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY); Aarti Shahani of Families for Freedom
Late City Edition - 4/18/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topics: The importance of integration and communication in science and a panel from the Museum of Natural History about the relationship between science and faith.
Interviews: Kenny Broad, recipient of the National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award
Panelists: Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology at Brown University and author of national biology textbooks, Robert Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University.
Late City Edition - 4/17/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Dan McSweeney, Samuel Rogerio Weinstein and Steven Strong
Topics: The first installment of "Morningside Now" and interviews with NYC immigrants about their lives.
Grey Matters - 4/13/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topics: Jobs: Why?
Interviews: Sanitation worker Andrew Macchio and chocolatier Kee Ling Tang.
Late City Edition - 4/6/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Reporter: Jesse Chanin
Topics: Immigrants' rights protests across the country; Stop Hate on Columbia's Campus holds a protest; Jeffrey Sachs from the State of the Planet Conference.
Interviews: Avideh Moussavian of the New York Immigration Coalition
March 2006
Gray Matters - 3/30/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topic: Children: Why??
Interviews: Psychologist David Pauley and an essay by Ian Newman.
Late City Edition - 3/27/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: A talk by Harvard Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi titled, "Sexing Gender, Transing Homos: Travail of Sexuality in Contemporary Iran."
Late City Edition - 3/21/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Reporter: Carolyn Bancroft
Topic: NYU bans Coke products; the "Let's Do It Now Journalism Awards" celebrates diversity in journalism; a Columbia University Earth Institute Researcher wins a National Geographic Award; and an update from New Orleans and the rebuilding efforts there.
Grey Matters - 3/16/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topic: Marriage: Why?
Interviews: Steven Nock, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Lesbian Librarians Laurie Ryan and Patricia Pettijohn, Unmarried Event Planner Laura Morace
Late City Edition - 3/14/06
Host: Ishmael Adjetey Osekre
Reporter: Nell Geiser
Topic: Child soldiers in Uganda as seen in the new documentary, Invisible Children according to Amy Parodi of World Vision; author and scholar Norman Finkelstein speaks about his new book, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Late City Edition - 3/13/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Nell Geiser
Topics: An interview with author and historian Normal Finkelstein about what he calls the Holocaust Industry; University of Texas Professor and Author Robert Jensen discusses his new book, The Heart of Whiteness
Late City Edition - 3/2/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Reporter: Estelle Chan
Topics: Update on the Administration for Children's Services with the Citizens Committee for Children; speech by Burmese former political prisoner Bo Kyi
February 2006
Late City Edition - 2/28/06
Host: Jason Frazer
Topics: Comedian Steve Hoffester talks about life as an undergrad and his career as a comedian; author Adrian Grant discusses his latest book on how to successfully complete college; a nutritionist gives tips on how to lose weight and eat right; and MORE!
Late City Edition - 2/23/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Reporters: Ishmael Adjetey Osekre and Hannah Temple
Topics: Religion and journalism expert Ari Goldman on the anti-Muslim cartoon controversy; a preview of the Columbia Senate vote on the university's sexual assault policy
Late City Edition - 2/16/06
Host: Ishmael Adjetey Osekre
Topic: A Columbia religion professor's take on Muslim "cartoon" riots in Europe; the US' opportunity to take leadership to stop the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan; an update on who should be held responsible for the atrocities at Abu Ghraib following the release of new photographs
Interviews: Columbia Professor Celia Deutshe; Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director at Amnesty International; Marie Clarke Brill, Director of Public Education and Mobilization at Africa Action
Late City Edition - 2/14/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topics: Columbia student Matthew Sanchez alleges discrimination because of his veteran status; Martin Luthar King Jr, democracy, and violence according to author Taylor Branch; Arab-Israeli Journalist Khaled Abu Toameh speaks about the state of the media in the Middle East
Late City Edition - 2/9/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Reporter: Estelle Chan
Topics: A new study reveals low-fat diets don't necessarily stave off heart-disease or cancer; Waheed Saleh sues the NYPD for harassment; complaints about the mayor's new budget proposal
Interviews: New York City Council Member David Weprin; Tushar J. Sheth, Staff Attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF); Jacques E. Rossouw, Project Officer at the National Institute of Health
Late City Edition - 2/7/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topics: Congress cuts student loan funding; a conversation about how the No Child Left Behind Act is affecting immigrant students in public schools; Transportation Alternatives' campaign to make the Central Park loop drive car-free
Interviews: Luke Swarthout, Higher Education Associate for State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs); Michael Fix, Vice President and Director of Studies at the Migration Policy Institute; Graham Beck, Campaign and Communications Coordinator at Transportation Alternatives
Grey Matters - 2/2/06
Host: Rachel Quimby
Topic: Phobias!
Interview: Mark Sehl, psychotherapist
January 2006
Late City Edition - 1/31/06 (No Archive)
Host: Kwame Spearman
Topic: President Bush's State of the Union address
Guests: Columbia students Bob Wray and Brian Wagner
Late City Edition - 1/26/06
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topics: Experts talk about the link between taxes and reduced smoking following Mayor Bloomberg's proposal of a 15 cent increase on the city's cigarette tax; controversies rage around employers' and college administrators' access to the Facebook.com; Columbia University students hold a 28-hour dance marathon to raise money for AIDS research
Late City Edition - 1/24/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topic: The struggle to achieve educational equity in New York, even after the Campaign for Fiscal Equity revealed that New York State owed NYC public schools $15 billion
Late City Edition - 1/19/06 (No Archive)
Host: Dan Wang
Topics: Fair Use and Copyright Law; NYC Bar Association Panel on Physician Assisted Suicide
Interview: Marjorie Heins, Brennan Center Fellow
Late City Edition - 1/17/06
Host: Shoshana Schwartz
Topics: Columbia University's Human Rights Advocates Program; the Columbia-led federally-sponsored Rapid Radiation Screening Device Project
Late City Edition - 1/12/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topics: An on-the-ground report from the Palestinian occupied territories; a conversation with INCITE, women of color against violence
Late City Edition - 1/9/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Pending immigration law and the controversy over charter schools
Late City Edition - 1/5/06
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: The New York State minimum wage increase and police spying as reported by the NYCLU
Late City Edition - 1/3/06
Host: Nell Geiser
Topic: Reflections on the NYC transit strike and an interview with Bella Abzug from the archives
December 2005
Late City Edition - 12/20/05
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: The MTA transit strike
Late City Edition - 12/13/05
Host: Carolyn Bancroft
Reporter: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Military Recruitment
Late City Edition - 12/8/05
Host: Nell Geiser
Reporters: Shoshana Schwartz and Jesse Chanin
Topic: John Ashcroft's visit to Columbia University
November 2005
Late City Edition - 11/29/05
Host: Sean Colenso-Semple
Topic: Columbia's plans for a high school in Manhattanville, their contentious site for expansion
Late City Edition - 11/22/05
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: Updates on the NYU strike, Columbia's Manhattanville expansion, and a college party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Incomplete Archive)
Late City Live - 11/17/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: The NYU graduate student strike
Late City Edition - 11/15/05
Host: Sean Colenso-Semple
Topic: Anti-smoking legislation across the nation
Late City Live - 11/3/05
Host: Dan Wang
Reporter: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Anti-war movements
(Incomplete archive)
October 2005
Late City Edition - 10/31/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Kris Wiener
Topic: The "physician brain drain" and media coverage from an Israeli point of view
Late City Edition - 10/27/05
Host: Nell Geiser
Reporter: Ishmael Adjetey Osekre
Topic: Domestic violence awareness month, the hunger crisis in southern Africa, and low-income New Yorkers speak
Late City Edition - 10/25/05
Host: Sean Colenso-Semple
Topic: The MTA's surplus and Columbia University's Double Discovery Center
Late City Edition - 10/24/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Open-source software and Wiki technology
Late City Live - 10/20/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: The Freelancers' Union
Late City Edition - 10/18/05
Host: Carolyn Bancroft
Reporter: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Food, hunger, and waste in NYC
(incomplete archive)
Late City Live - 10/13/05
Host: Nell Geiser
Reporter: Ishmael Adjetey Osekre
Topic: CUNY campaign to support funding for public schools in NY, an update from the Coalition for the Homeless, and African nations work to cancel international debts
Late City Edition - 10/6/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: Hurricane Katrina as understood by author and expert on emergency preparedness, Matthew Stein
Late City Edition - 10/4/05
Host: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: Interview with Columbia University Provost Alan Brinkley
Late City Edition - 10/3/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Rachel Quimby, Tedde Tsang, and Shoshana Schwartz
Topic: Malcolm X
September 2005
Late City Edition - 9/27/05
Host: Sean Colenso-Semple
Topic: Fake ID's
Late City Edition - 9/20/05
Host: Carolyn Bancroft
Topic: Social implications of Hurricane Katrina -- in LA and NY
Late City Edition - 9/12/05 Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Income disparities in Manhattan
Late City Edition - 9/6/05 Host: Nell Geiser
Topic: Institutional/personal racism following Hurricane Katrina and an economics update from the Fiscal Policy Institute
Late City Edition - 9/5/05 Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Shoshana Schwartz and Marie Leila Douaihi
Topic: The Ugandian condom crisis, an update from the NYCLU about last year's Republican National Convention, and a Youth Mic commentary on metro fare increases
August 2005
Late City Edition - 8/23/05
Host: Nell Geiser
Topic: A debate on the right of cities to use eminent domain for private development and a look at the mayoral candidates' records on the environment.
Late City Edition - 8/18/05 Host: Dan Wang
Topic: Emergency contraception in New York
Late City Edition - 8/15/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: The mayoral election and the NYC hip hop community
Late City Edition - 8/8/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Shoshana Schwartz, Samuel Weinstein, and Timothy Garcia
Topic: Pataki vetoes an emergency contraception bill, the two year anniversary of the NYC smoking ban, and misogyny in hiphop (from the archives)
Columbia News Weekly - 8/2/05
Host: Jason Frazer
Topic: Authors Rita Ewing (former wife of Patrick Ewing) and Cora Daniels stop by to discuss their latest books
Late City Edition - 8/1/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Bradley Blackburn and Marie Leila Douaihi
Topic: Overcrowding and police presence in NYC high schools, megachurches in Houston, TX, and a commentary about bag searches on NYC subways
July 2005
Late City Edition - 7/25/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Shoshana Schwartz, Timothy Garcia, Samuel Weinstein, and Marie Leila Douaihi
Topic: AIDS drugs trials on foster kids, subway bag searches, and our first installment in a series on citywide testing
Late City Edition - 7/18/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Samuel Weinstein and Marie Leila Douaihi
Topic: Arguments for and against CAFTA-DR (the Central American Free Trade Agreement) and youth commentaries on Yankee Stadium and the SAT's
Late City Live - 7/14/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: A dip into the archives! 2004 Green Party Candidate David Cobb and the Brecht Forum searches for space
Late City Edition - 7/11/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporters: Shoshana Schwartz
Topic: Maintaining civil rights during the war on terror and professor Amir Raz speaks about his research on hypnosis
June 2005
Late City Live - 6/30/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: Recycling in the city and new subway rules
Columbia News Weekly - 6/28/05
Host: Jason Frazer
Topic: 30 second commercials, mayoral candidates, and 4th of July plans
Late City Edition - 6/27/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Shoshana Schwartz
Topic: Billy Graham in New York City and environmental sustainability
Blacklist - 6/14/05
Host: Elizabeth Dwoskin
Topic: Immigrant workers' rights
Guests: Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY (ROC-NY)
Late City Edition - 6/13/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Documentary filmmakers and the World Tribunal on Iraq
Late City Live - 6/9/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: Intellectual Property Rights II and a city council bill about movie start times
Columbia News Weekly - 6/7/05
Host: Jason Frazer
Topic: Interview with mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer, diversity in the NYC fire department, and July 4th deals
Late City Live - 6/2/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: Intellectual Property Rights
May 2005
Columbia News Weekly - 5/31/05
Host: Emily Wilson of the Columbia School of Journalism
Topic: Long Distance Running
Late City Edition - 5/30/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Interview with Barnard College security guard Beresford Martyn
Late City Live - 5/26/05
Host: Dan Wang
Topic: Lecture by subway historian Peter Derrick
Late City Edition - 5/23/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Banning large gatherings in Central Park, the re-design of Washington Sq. Park, & the Surveillance Camera Players
Late City Live - 5/19/05
Host: Nell Geiser
Topic: Bloomberg's budget surplus & military recruiting in high school
Late City Live - 5/12/05
Host: Nell Geiser
Topic: Malcolm X's legacy & filmmakers from Bed-Stuy
Blacklist - 5/2/05
Host: Elizabeth Dwoskin
Topic: The future of Brooklyn's MTA Atlantic Yards
Guests: Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, Fans for Fair Play, Gustav Peebles
April 2005
Late City Edition - 4/25/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Reporter: Bradley Blackburn
Topic: Race and the Prison Industrial Complex
March 2005
Late City Edition - 3/28/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Interview with Muslim activist Asra Nomani and museum culture in New York City
Late City Edition - 3/7/05
Host: Jesse Chanin
Topic: Misogyny in hiphop
Pre-2005 Archives
Blacklist - 2/04
Host: Elizabeth Dwoskin
Topic: Immigrant Students: How do young immigrants experience NYC life?
Guests: Manhattan Comprehensive Day & Night High School
Blacklist - 6/03
Part 1 Part 2
Host: Elizabeth Dwoskin
Topic: Native American Art Repatriation Foundation
Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Sackler
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