Strike Update; Los Angeles Film Critics Cancel Awards; Will More Military Bases Be Closed in California?; Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are; Al Franken
Strike Update
Guest Host Patt Morrison speaks with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Founder and President of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and Rick Icaza, President of UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers Union), Local 77, to get an update on the status of supermarket workers who have been striking for a week.
Los Angeles Film Critics Cancel Awards
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced this morning that they have canceled their 2003 awards. The group is protesting an industry ban on sending special DVDs and videos of eligible films to award voters. Jean Oppenheimer, President, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and AirTalk FilmWeek critic, joins guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss the issue.
Will More Military Bases Be Closed in California?
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said that U.S. military bases are at 25% over-capacity, and that a large round of base closures will take place in 2005. California lost about one-hundred-thousand jobs in four rounds of base closures that took place between 1988 and 1995. How much will California be impacted this time around? Patt Morrison talks to Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Perry, Bill Borado, President of the Ventura County Economic Development Association, and military analyst Loren Thompsen.
Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are
Journalist and author Brooke Kroeger interviewed people who "pass" for something that they are not, usually in the face of some kind of social injustice. Her subjects include a white teacher in the South who passed for black, a gay seminarian, and a lesbian in the Navy. Kroeger probes their motivations for deception and examines the nature of how people define themselves in American society versus how society defines them. Brooke Kroeger joins guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss her new book Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (Public Affairs).
Al Franken
After having dissected the factual inaccuracies of talk show host Rush Limbaugh in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, humorist and author Al Franken tackles a larger foes like President George Bush and the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly and scores of other conservatives, whom Franken says, are playing loose with the facts. His new book is called Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Dutton).