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Free Forum with Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally

Features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Michael Lewis, Ken Burns, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Temple Grandin, Bill Maher, Cornel West, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Norman Lear. [http://terrencemcnally.net]

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34:49

Special: Terrence guest host "To The Point" on KCRW

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2012/03/10

Aired 03/02/12The stock market's roaring, and applications for unemployment are down, but there was disappointing news in Thursday's economic data. In January manufacturing growth slowed, construction spending dipped, and Americans' after-tax income fell, leading to a fourth straight month of weak consumer spending. Guest host Terrence McNally explores the continued gap between Wall Street and Main Street, and what we can do about it.Although it's down a bit today, the Dow hit 13,000 this

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Special: Terrence guest host "To The Point" on KCRW

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2012/03/10

Aired 03/02/12Iranians went to the polls in parliamentary elections today. With many reformists and opposition leaders not participating, the vote is a contest between hard-line supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pressure from the West over Iran's nuclear program has been a central issue. Barbara Slavin is Washington correspondent for AL-Monitor.com, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies:

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52:30

Q&A: Marshall Ganz-Power of Story in Social Movements

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2012/03/06

Aired 03/04/12In the early 1960s, MARSHALL GANZ dropped out of Harvard to join the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He then spent 16 years working with César Chávez and the United Farm Workers. He returned to Harvard in the 1990's, graduated, earned his Ph.D., and now teaches organizing and the power of public narrative at the Kennedy School. During Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, he was lead organizer of the grassroots for the former community organizer. GANZ offers a

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52:02

Q&A: Wael Ghonim - Facebook leader of Egypt's Revolution

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2012/02/09

Aired 02/05/12How did the Egyptian people overthrow longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak and are the people of Egypt better off today?I am very excited to speak with WAEL GHONIM, the Egyptian web exec who played a leading role in last year's Tahrir Square protests. With the first anniversary of those protests and the recent elections in Egypt, we have a lot to talk about. WAEL GHONIM was a little-known 30-year-old Google manager, unwilling to publicly criticize the Egyptian regime -- silenced like

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25:31

Q&A: ROKO BELIC'S, documentary - HAPPY

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2012/02/02

Aired 01/29/12HAPPY. Are you happy? What makes you happy? Does money make you happy? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in an environment that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Do you expect you're going to get happier? How? ROKO BELIC'S documentary HAPPY explores these sorts of questions. It weaves the latest scientific research from the field of "positive psychology" with stories from around the world of people whose lives illustrate what we're learning. The basic

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26:07

Q&A: WINIFRED GALLAGHER, Author - Understanding Our...

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2012/01/31

Aired 01/29/12Though change has never been as rapid as it is today, adapting to new circumstance is so crucial to our survival that "love of the new" is hardwired into our brains at the deepest levels. The number of new things we confront - from products to information - has quadrupled in the last thirty years with no signs of slowing. In NEW: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change, WINIFRED GALLAGHER points out that 15% of us are "neophiliacs," biologically predisposed to

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54:46

Q&A: JANE McGONIGAL, REALITY IS BROKEN - How Games...

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2012/01/24

Aired 01/20/12There are 183 million active video gamers in the US, and the average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of 21. There are now more than five million "extreme" gamers" in the US who play an average of 45 hours a week.According to game designer JANE McGONIGAL, this is because videogames are increasingly fulfilling genuine human needs. But she goes way beyond that, in her first book, REALITY IS BROKEN -- just out in paperback - she suggests we can use the

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23:19

Q&A: Occupy the Dream: Benjamin Chavis & David De Graw

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2012/01/20

Aired 01/15/12Guests: David De Graw, one of the central figures in the leaderless and horizontal Occupy/99% movement and Dr Ben Chavis, longtime civil rights leader, from his youthful days with King, to his leadership of the Million Man March, to his current role in the Hip Hop Summit Action Network. We talk about the alliance between African American faith leaders and the Occupy movement -- Occupy the Dream. The coalition called a National Day of Action for January 16, 2012, Martin Luther

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24:43

Q&A: STEPHEN GREENBLATT, National Book Award Winner,...

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2012/01/20

Aired 01/15/12In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. The man was Poggio Braccionlini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance. His discovery was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe

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55:56

Q&A: TOM FRANK-What's the Matter with Kansas?-EDGAR...

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2012/01/10

Aired 01/08/12This will be a conversation about the state of things as we embark on 2012. I will be joined by TOM FRANK (What's the Matter with Kansas?) and EDGAR CAHN (founder of Legal Services and Time Dollars). We will talk about their passions and projects.http://www.tcfrank.com/In his new book, PITY THE BILLIONAIRE, Frank examines how the crash that has hurt so many millions of Americans has delivered wildly perverse political results. He gives us a diagnosis of the cultural malady

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28:55

Q&A: Steve Stockman, writer/director, author, HOW...

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2012/01/04

Aired 01/01/12I'll be joined by writer-director STEVE STOCKMAN whose new book HOW TO SHOOT VIDEO THAT DOESN'T SUCK has a great deal of smart things to say - not just about shooting videos of your kids' parties or your company's new products, but also about the essential role of story in the movies you see in theatres. Stick around. I believe you'll learn something no matter who you are.http://www.stevestockman.com/

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55:47

Q&A: JOHN PRENDERGAST - co-founder of the Enough Project

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2011/12/31

Aired 12/25/11As an activist, presidential advisor, cofounder of the Enough Project, and the author of ten books on Africa, including his most recent, The Enough Moment, John is passionate about ending genocide and raising awareness about human rights issues in Africa. But the not-so-public face of John Prendergast is the life he’s led as a Big Brother to Michael Mattocks. As an emotionally wounded twenty-one-year-old, John made the life-changing decision to form a “Big Brother/Little

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24:59

Q&A: Heather Courtney - Director/Producer, WHERE...

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2011/12/20

Aired 11/07/11From a small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, a raw and powerful documentary WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, their families, and their town. At its heart a story about growing up, the film is an intimate look at the young men who fight our wars, where they come from, and their struggles when they return and try to fit back into their previous daily routines. On the podcast, HEATHER COURTNEY,

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54:38

Q&A: RICHARD HEINBERG, author, THE END OF GROWTH:...

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2011/12/13

Aired 12/11/11Economists, politicians, and pundits insist recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments face record deficits. Today's guest, RICHARD HEINBERG has a new book, The End of Growth, in which he proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. He talks about the new normal that recognizes the limits to growth imposed by resource and disposal limits, climate change,

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51:29

OCCUPY/99% MOVEMENT CONVERSATION

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2011/12/07

Aired 12/04/11ELISE WHITAKER, Action Committee, OccupyLA DAVID DeGRAW, OWSnews.org, AmpedStatus.com TODD GITLIN, The Sixties; Letters to a Young Activist SARAH VAN GELDER, YES magazine,editor, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHINGI have invited four guests to have a conversation about the movement referred to as the Occcupy movement, the Occupy Wall Street movement, or the 99% movement. From a group of people encamping in New York city September 17th, to affiliated actions or camps in 900 cities in the

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43:20

Q&A: SIMON MAINWARING - Author, WE FIRST

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2011/11/30

Aired 11/27/11At a time when social media is being utilized to coordinate protests against the domination of our economy, our government, and our society by corporations and the very wealthy individuals who profit most from them, SIMON MAINWARING sees a hopeful path to save society from capitalism's worst excesses. http://wefirstseminar.com/A social media expert with global experience with brands such as Nike, Toyota and Motorola- he offers a new brand model in which they leverage social

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55:19

Q&A: JAMES O'SHEA, former editor-in-chief of the Los...

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2011/11/23

11/20/11This week's show is about a Los Angeles institution and source of local pride, nurtured to greatness as a family-owned business, purchased by someone from out-of-town who knew little about the business, put up little of his own money, and ran the property into the ground so that it is now a shell of its former self. And many customers have reacted by not buying the product.No, we're not talking about the Dodgers, but the Los Angeles Times. After buying Times Mirror, The Tribune

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56:21

Q&A: Oran Hesterman/Fair Food; Leila Conners/Urban Roots

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2011/11/16

Aired 11/13/11Some bad news:In 2008 more than 50% of all US harvested cropland grew only two crops - corn and soybeans and more than 40% of the food calories consumed worldwide came from just three crops: wheat, corn and rice.30% of Detroit residents receive food stamps, but 92% of Detroit's food stamp retailers offer few or no fresh fruit or vegetables.The average plate of food eaten in our homes or restaurants travels 1,500 miles from where the food is grown. Our food system consumes 10.3

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52:52

Q&A: MICHAEL LEWIS, MONEYBALL

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2011/10/19

Aired 10/16/11Both Ira Glass and Malcolm Gladwell say today's guest is their favorite storyteller. In his books and magazine articles, Lewis writes about sports, business, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, political campaigns, fatherhood. Stuff that matters to a lot of people. He's smart and he has a sense of humor.Lewis was a trader at Salomon Brothers before he wrote his first best-seller, LIAR'S POKER about the excesses of Wall Street during the 1980s. He continues to write about that world

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50:41

Q&A: Occupy Wall Street/Occupy LA

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2011/10/13

Aired 10/09/11Politics and the media have for the most part shown themselves impotent, indifferent, or in cahoots when it comes to confronting and rolling back the takeover of the United States by the super-rich and the super-corporations.Since the days of Clinton, we've been reminding ourselves of the words of FDR to progressives pressing for the New Deal -- "Make me do it." Envying the attention and power granted the tea party. Millions march all over Europe in response to austerity

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