Sexuality & Body Image with Virgie Tovar Today, we tackle Sexuality and Body Image with Virgie Tovar. Virgie is the author of the upcoming fat positive anthology Hot &Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion(Seal Press, November 2012). She holds an MA in Human Sexuality, is certified as …
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Why do people vote against their best interests? Teresa Wagner on animal communication Do you hate photos of yourself? You’re normal! How you talk about losing weight affects your success Should my son pay for his speeding ticket? Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.6MB) | Embed
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Whether you’re looking for love or just looking to fuel a little lust, Dr. Linda de Villers offers answers in her book “SIMPLE SEXY FOOD – 101 TastyAphrodisiac Recipes and Sensual Tips to Stir Your Libido and Feed Your Love.” www.SimpleSexyFood.com Dr. Diana wrote the Foreword for Dr. de Villers’ book – a …
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Learn the truth about the many dangers of hydraulic fracturing in this DEC Hearing at the Rally Against Fracking in New York City, October 8th, 2011.
My guest tomorrow will be Beatriz Beckford. She is the school food reform coordinator for the Brooklyn Food Coalition and has eight years of community organizing, education, advocacy, and activism experience, including work with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Citizens Committee of NYC. Her vision for engagement, building …
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Occupy and political protesters beware. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday held that local police can strip-search anyone who is arrested for minor offenses if they are to be held within the jail’s general population before being released. The 5-4 decision, with the Court’s conservative majority overruling its four moderates, is a …
So. It looks now like the regressive majority on the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, his health care bill. That is so fitting. More than that, it is also a reminder of just how sick this country truly is. Imagine that the lab returned …
Part I: Atina Diffley, Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. Atina Diffley is an organic vegetable farmer who now educates consumers, farmers, and policymakers about organic farming through the consulting business Organic Farming Works LLC, owned by her and her husband, Martin. From 1973 through 2007, the Diffleys owned …
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Our first guest is reverend Paul Mayer, co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition and an activist for many noble causes over the past fifty years. Along with religious and interfaith groups, he is organizing an earth week rally in DC to say “enough is enough” to a Congress that just doesn’t …
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Topic: Suing to Give Americans Equal Access to American Jobs Guest: James Otto – Civil Defense Attorney Where have all the jobs gone? The Shameful Truth is That They Are Still Here. Behind American Backs, Corporations are betraying the American Dream by Hiring 2,000,000 Workers per Year from Foreign Countries – much of …
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Douglas Wissing is a historian, political scientist and an award winning investigative journalist who has traveled the world to uncover stories that rarely reach public ears. He has uncovered stories on Washington insiders, Hong Kong plutocrats, and traveled with Tibetan bandits and rebels opposing Chinese occupation of Tibet. Douglas’ articles …
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Corporations are not working for the 99 percent. But this wasn’t always the case. In a special five-part series, William Lazonick, professor at UMass, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, and a leading expert on the business corporation, along with journalist Ken Jacobson and AlterNet’s Lynn Parramore, will examine the …
Israeli hardliners and American neocons say U.S. and Israeli interests are one and the same, meaning that if Israel bombs Iran, the United States should join in. But other observers say Washington must create some distance from Israel’s messianic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. We …
Getting what should be public information about major Wall Street firms can be maddeningly difficult. Bloomberg News discovered this in its ultimately successful effort to get information on the $1.2 trillion in “secret loans” the Fed doled out during the financial crisis. And I’ve had no small experience of it myself. As …
“My Water’s On Fire Tonight” is a product of Studio 20 NYU (http://bit.ly/hzGRYP) in collaboration with ProPublica.org (http://bit.ly/5tJN). The song is based on ProPublica’s investigation on hydraulic fractured gas drilling (read the full investigation here: http://bit.ly/15sib6). Music by David Holmes and Andrew Bean Vocals and Lyrics by David Holmes and …