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February 25, interview with Adjunct Professor Sandor John of Hunter College about the Puerto Rican teachers strike and solidarity work (see this site http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2kxcd/fmprsupportcommitteenewyork/)
Teachers Strike

February 10 interview with Professor Richard Wolff on the growing Recession and why Republican/Democratic Fixes Won't Work. Wolff will speak in West Haven on Feb. 21
Wolff on Recession

January 14 from Ramallah...interview with Mohammad Jaradat, a youth activist, about the demonstration in that city against the Bush visit
Mohammad Jaradat

2007

Dec 27 from Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine ...... interview with Ghassan Bannoura news producer of the International Middle East Media Center (11 minutes)
Ghassan Bannoura

Dec 2 from Danbury, CT ...... interview with Chris Towne of CT United for Peace about his recent trip to Palestine and Israel (24 minutes)
Chris Towne

Sept 29 from Hartford, CT ...... Kamora Herrington of True Colors, Inc. talks about the Jena 6 and the rally in Hartford (for more info www.freethejena6.org )
Kamora Herrington

Sept 12 from Washington DC. At the sit-in in Nancy Pelosi's office. Interview with Leslie Angeline of Code Pink and Retired Col. Ann Wright about the sit-in and the citizen attempts to speak out during the Petraeus hearings. Ann Wright will be speaking in West Hartford on Tuesday, October 9 at 7 in the West Hartford Town Hall, 50 South Main St.
Leslie Angeline and Ann Wright

June 26 from Washington, DC. Interview with Leslie Angeline of Code Pink who is on a hunger strike demanding to meet with Senator Lieberman over his call for attacks on Iran. Leslie Angeline

April 13 from New York City. Interview with Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator of United for Peace and Justice. Cagan will be speaking April 15 for CT United for Peace.
Cagan

March 24. from Deerfield, Massachusetts. Interview with Sunny Miller of TrapRock Peace about the anti-war Demonstration in Fayetteville, North Carolina 12 miles west of Fort Bragg.
Miller

Jonathan Hutto's speech at the Connecticut United for Peace meeting February 18, 2007. Hutto is co-founder of "Appeal for Redress", active duty servicemen and women who call for withdrawal from Iraq. (48 minutes) Hutto

Nablus Occupied, One man murdered, one terminal on life-support. Interview on March 1 with Anna Baltzer who is in Nablus, Palestine. Baltzer is author of "Witness in Palestine, Journal of a Jewish-American Woman in the Occupied Territories." Baltzer
Read her blog.

Interview with Conn Hallinan, a foreign policy analyst for "Foreign Policy In Focus" and a lecturer in journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He wrote an article about this called "The Najaf Massacre: An Annotated Fable" on Counterpunch [20 minutes] Hallinan

Interview with Jonathon Hutto in Norfolk, Virginia on February 12, 2007. Hutto is co-founder of the the "Appeal for Redress" statement signed by over 1,000 active duty servicemen and women who are calling on Congress to bring the troops home. Hutto

From Cambridge, MA on January 5, 2007 interview with Noam Chomsky about Gerald Ford and the criminal of the invasion of East Timor, reflections on Moynihan, Kissinger and Watergate [23 minutes]
Chomsky

2006

Here are two interviews with people who will speak at the Tree of Life conference on Sunday, December 3 in Old Lyme, Ct.

The first was done on November 30 with Benjamin Beit Hallahmi, an Israeli who has written Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel
Click to hear Beit Hallahmi
(14 minutes)

The second was done in March with Anna Baltzer, author of Witness in Palestine [8 minutes]
Baltzer

From Madison, Wisconsin on November 19, an interview with Jennifer Loewenstein, who was in the Gaza Strip in late October and early November. In January she will be Assistant Director of the Middle East Studies Department of at the University of Wisconsin Click to hear Jennifer Loewenstein

(16:35 minutes) Read two of her recent articles here and here

From Gaza City on the Gaza Strip on November 13, an interview with Adnan Abu Hasna, Media Advisor to UNRWA about the shelling that wiped out a family in Beit Hanun. Also explaining the terrible living conditions for a million refugees in Gaza.
Click to hear Adnan Abu Hasna

(10 minutes)

From Bat Yam, Israel October 30, 2006 an interview with Dr. Joseph Algazy, retired journalist for Ha'aretz on the terrible situation in the Gaza Strip and the petition by over 1,000 Israelis demanding relief
Click to hear Dr. Joseph Algazy

(17 minutes)

From Tel Aviv, Israel, October 22, 2006 an interview with Uri Avnery about the decision of the Israeli cabinet this morning to vote for a bill to change Israel from a parliamentary to a presidential system. Averny fought in the war of 1948, severed several terms in the Israeli Knesset and leads Gush Shalom, the Peace Bloc
Click to hear Uri Avnery

(12 minutes)

From New York City, October 16, 2006 an interview with Juliano Mer Khamis, director of "Arna's Children"
Click to hear Juliano Mer Khamis

(23 minutes)

In New Haven, August 2, 2006, at Ralph Nader's news conference Stanley Heller of TSVN asked him his views on the Israeli attack on Lebanon. His answer was 8 and half minutes long. He gave a cool dispassionate analysis to back up his charges that Israel is committing war crimes in Lebanon.
Click to hear Ralph Nader

From Boston, an interview with Gary Leupp, Professor of History at Tufts University, At the big anti-war march in New York on April 29 a number of people carried signs saying "Out of Iraq, Into Darfur" and Professonr Leupp wrote a piece on Counterpunch about the lunacy of exptecting the Empire to do good in Sudan.
Click to hear Gary Leupp

To read his article go to counterpunch.org and scroll down to May. 2nd

From New York City, interview with Patrick Connors of the International Solidarity Movement who was barred from going into the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government, the continuing ruler of the Strip. Also news about how unhelpful the Egyptian authorites proved to be. [19 minutes] for more on the ISM click here http://www.palsolidarity.org/
Click to hear Patrick Connors

From New York City, interview with historian Lenni Brenner about the article by Harvard and Chicago U. professors about the influence of the Israel Lobby [21 minutes]
Brenner on M-W

From Newport, RI, interview with Anna Baltzer, author of "Witness in Palestine: Journal of a Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories" , who will be speaking in Guilford, CT on March 28. [8:43 minutes] Baltzer

Haidar Abu Shakra of the Palestine American Congress speaking at the March 18 Anti-War rally in New Haven Haidar

From Tel Aviv, interview with Uri Avnery, two days after Israeli fascist leader Baruch Marzel publicly urged his assassination. We talk about Israeli fascists, the waning election hopes of Amir Peretz and the growing hunger in Gaza.
Avnery

Interview on March 14, 2006 with Farid, an Iranian-American activist recently returned from Iran. He will be speaking at the March 18 anti-war rally in New Haven.
Farid

From Jerusalem on January 29, 2006 an interview with Michel Warschawsky about Hamas and the Israeli/US threats to attack Iran. Michel Warschawsky is a long time Israeli political activist, former director of the Alternative Information Center, one time political prisonber and author of "On the Border"
Michel Warschawsky [10 minutes]

2005

From Binghamton, NY on December 29 an interview with James Petras about growing Israeli plans for an attack on Iran in March. Petras says that Big Oil doesn't support it and that many officials in State and the Defense Department oppose it, but that the Israel First lobby is pushing it. Petras is a retired Professor of Sociology, author of books on imperialism and advisor to Latin American social movements. He wrote an important article "Iran in the Crosshairs" which appeared in Counterpunch in a shortened form. See the complete article here: Iran
James Petras [20 minutes]

From New Haven on December 23, an interview with Mark Colville who recently returned from Cuba as part of a group trying to enter Guantanamo base to speak to prisoners about torture in the prison. It's a Catholic Worker group called Witness to Torture. It had a very good reception from Cubans and a lot of US press. Their site is www.witnesstorture.org
Mark Colville [17 minutes]

From Maryland on December 1, an interview with Dave Zirin, sports commentator for Air America and XM Radio's 'On the Real' with Chuck D. Topics: sports stars who oppose the war, the connection between George W. Bush and the steroid scandal, why Zirin likes Barry Bonds, and Zirin's book "What's My Name Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States". Zirin will be speaking in New Haven at the Labyrinth book store on Tuesday, December 6 at 6 p.m. and at Southern CT State University in Engleman Hall in room A120 on Wednesday the 7th at 7:30.
Dave Zirin [14 minutes]

From New York on November 24, an interview with historian and activist Lenni Brenner about the Million More Movement which brought a huge crowd to DC in October. We talk about why he thought the march was important for folks doing Palestine and Iraq work, Louis Farrakhan and the charge that he is an anti-Semite, the complete change in program from the Million Man March of 1995 and Brenner's proposal to put Rosa Parks on U.S. currency. [You can read Brenner's article on the subject at Counterpunch and buy his books at Amazon]

Lenni Brenner Interview

From Tel Aviv, Israel on November 20, 2005 an interview with Uri Avnery who has been a soldier, news magazine publisher, member of the Israeli Knesset and peace activist with Gush Shalom. We talk about the activists in Bi'lin fighting the wall, the Kafr Kassem massacre of November 1956, the claim by a PA advisor that Yasser Arafat was murdered and the new leader of labor Amir Peretz
[He had some difficulty hearing me at the start, but that clears up.]

Uri Avnery Interview [20 minutes]

From Winnipeg, Canada on November 11, an interview with Jeff Halper about his article on Counterpunch.org about Israel and the neo-conservatives. Also his very positive reaction to the ousting of Shimon Peres by labor leader Amir Peretz. Jeff Halper, an Israeli, is a leader of the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolition.

Jeff Halper Interview [29 minutes]

Anti-war activist Kathy Kelly has been Iraq many times and to Haiti, Palestine and Bosnia. She founded the sanctions-defying Voices in the Wilderness. She talks about being fined and facing prison for bringing things to Iraq, what she saw in Jenin right after the 2002 Israeli attack, and her new book.

Kathy Kelly Interview Oct. 26, 2005 via telephone [13 minutes]... Also see her new website http://www.vcnv.org/

In Salt Lake City, Mazin Qumsiyeh, our Vice-Chair and Steering Committee member of the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation talks about his weeks on the Wheels of Justice Tour

Mazin Qumsiyeh Interview Oct. 29, 2005 via telephone [7 minutes]...

From Philadelphia, Patrick Resta a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the War who will speak at the CTUP conference on Nov. 5
Patrick Resta Nov. 3, 2005 via telephone [11 minutes]...

From New York City, Gilbert Achcar, author of "Clashing Barbarisms" who will keynote the CTUP conference on Nov. 5
Gilbert Achcar Interview Nov. 1, 2005 via telephone [17 minutes]...

Norman Finkelstein demolishes Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's book about Israel.
Norman Finkelstein Interview Oct. 17, 2005 via telephone [12 minutes]

This interview was done in Washington at the great Sept. 24 anti-war rally with Faried Esack, Professor of Ethics and Religion at Xavier U. in Cincinnati. He's South African and we talk about similarities and differences between the Palestinian and South African struggles. Pristine audio quality.

Faried Esack Interview Sept 24, 2005 in DC

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