2002

January 6 Jewish Film Festival with Aviva Weintraub, Director of Media and Public Programs, Jewish Museum; interview by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz with Kathleen Bleen, Inside Organized Racism.

January 13 pre-empted

January 20 pre-empted

January 27 Michael Lerner, on Tikkun Conference; Neta Golan on conditions on the West Bank ,

February 3 Jim Hoberman, Village Voice film critic on Claude Lanzman's Sobibor ; Kate Rhee and Chino Harding on the Prison Moratorium Project; Wayne Barrett, Village Voice write on the selection of Gifford Miller as City Council Speaker.

February 10 Marathon Show with Andy Hsaio, editor of Legal Lynching (New Press), by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., and Bruce Shapiro; Jennie Romain and Adrienne Cooper on their anti-death penalty Purimspiel at Workman's Circle; Sasha Abromsky, Hard Times Blu es (St. Martin's Press); Hannah Safron, Israeli feminist and peace activist.

February 17 pre-empted

February 24 Comment on the killing of journalist Daniel Pearl. Andy Stetner, JFREJ, on the JCRC's decision to honor Rupert Murdoch. Artist, Bara Sapir, interviewed by Jennifer Bleyer. Robbie Meeropol, Marshal Meyer Risk Taker Award honoree interviewed by Nan Rubin.

March 3 Interviews with former political prisoners Susan Rosenberg , Dr. Alan Berkman and Laura Whitehorn , recipients of the 6th annual Marshal T. Meyer Risk Taker Award.

March 10 Zia Mian comments on 6 months after 9-11; Michel Warshawski (Alternative Information Center) on the crisis in Palestine and Israel; Jennifer Bleyer, editor and Ellis Lewis, contributor, on the launch of Heeb magazine.

March 17 Gabriel Meyer, Israeli cultural worker and peace activist on his new CD, Merkavah , Redistricting with Jeremy Burton (co-host), Lucia Gomez (PRLDEF) and State Senator Eric Schneiderman, Rela Mazali, Israeli feminist peace activist (New Profile) on her book, Maps of Women's Goings and Comings (Stanford University Press).

March 24 Rockefeller Drug Laws with Robert Gangee, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York, Israeli-Palestinians Families Forum for Peace (with voices of parents Yitzhak Fran ken thal, Khaled Mohammed Abdel Khadir, Aaron Barnea, Fatmah Batnij, Roni Hischenzon, father of Mohammed Salami Al Mezi, Tvi Shahak and Norit Peled Elhanan, speaking at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, March 18th ).

March 31 Dr. Ruchama Marton, Physicians for Human Rights, Israel, on access to medical care; Davic Kalic of the Fiscal Policy Institute on N.Y.C. Budget: Kevin Pranis , Grassroots Leadership on Lehman Brothers and the prison industry.

April 7 Marc Ellis, “Practising Exile,” interviewed by Jeremy Burton; Roger Norman, Center for Economic and Social Rights on the Israel-Palestine conflict and Bush's foreign policy; Isla Jad, Professor Bir Zeit University.

April 14 Ruchama Marton, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel; Eyad Sarraj, Gaza-based psychiatrist; Mamdou Gaye, SOS Racisme and Theo Klein, CRIF on anti-Jewish attacks in France .

April 21 Green Party gubernatorial candidates, Stanley Aronowitz, labor scholar and CUNY Professor and Ron Young, environmentalist and Cornell U Professor; Campus activism, Liz Harr, Jewish Students for Palestinian Rights, U. of Texas, Austin and Lincoln Schlensky, U. C. Berkeley.

April 28 Bernard Cassen, President, ATTAC, France and Mamadou Gaye, SOS Racisme on the Le Pen electoral victory; Marty Rosenbluth, Amnesty International, on AI's report on Israeli actions in West Bank.

May 5 The tradition of dissent (co-host Alisa Solomon). Hon. Gerald Kaufman, British MP; Rabbi Dvora Stettel and Jason Rosenbaum of Kedima-A Progressive Jewish Community in Seattle; live report from the counter-demonstration at the Salute to Israel Day Parade (Esther Kaplan, Lorne Leib, Melanie-Kaye/Kantrowitz).

May 12 Marathon Special Henry Bean, writer and director of The Believer ; Jennifer Felicia Abadi, “ A Fistful of Lentils; Jason Sherman, author of Reading Hebron with director, David Milch and members of the cast. Co-hosts, Alisa Solomon and Jeremy Burton.

May 19 Pre-empted

May 26 Jim Hoberman, Village Voice film critic on the Moscow State Theater, and Avi Bornstein author of Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel .

June 9 Immigrant detainees with Abdeen Jabara, civil rights attorney, Sabhash Katell from DRUM and Andy Stettner, JFREJ; Human Rights Watch Film Festival with Andrea Holley, HRW education and outreach director and film-maker Rachel Leah Jones, 500 Dunam on the Moon .

June 16 Dr. Ruchama Marton, Physicians for Human Rights, Israel (speaking at a June 6 Women in Black sponsored event at The New School), Jean Hardisty, President, Political Research Associates (speaking at a May 23 rd event at The Funding Exchange) about the divisions in the Bush administration, Israel , and anti-Semitism.

June 23 Pre-empted

June 30 Gay Pride Show Gay Parenting with Mirian Kabakow, Upper West Side JCC, Marla Brettschneider, Leslie? of CBST; Anti-Occupation Activists in Israel , Gila Pliski, Dirty Laundry and ?? Jerusalem Open House. (no air check)

July 7 Don Guttenplan on European anti-Semitism, United Jewish Communities funding of settlements with Kathleen Peratis, and clarinetist Margot Leverett and guitarist ?? (no air check)

July 14 Struggle for control of the media and political discourses on Israel-Palestine with Jeffrey Dvorkin, NPR Ombudsman and Steve Rendall, FAIR; Jews and the Evangelical Christian right, Daniel Levitas, author of The Terrorist Next Door , and Joshua Ruebner, Jews for Peace in Palestine. Co-host Nan Rubin.

July 21 Death Penalty in New York State with Russell Neufeld, Legal Aid Society, and David Kosinski, New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty with co-host Nan Rubin; Freedom Summer in Palestine with Adam Shapiro, ISM, Gaza and Naomi Braine .

July 28 Sigal Rosen, Hotline for Migrant Workers, Israel; Joe Goldman on latest news on 1994 bombing of Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires; Nan Rubin interviews representatives of the Forensic Anthropologist team investigating disappeared in Argentina.

August 4 Co-host, Alisa Solomon. Covering Israel and Palestine with Paul Holmes, Jerusalem Bureau chief for Reuters from 1997-2000; Sheva Zucker, editor and producer of the CD, The Golden Peacock:readings by ten Yiddish writers ; July 6 City Council hearings on Israel-Palestine resolutions with Jeremy Burton.

August 11 U.S. Civil Rights Commission with Hussein Ibish; YIVO mark s the 50 th Anniversary of the execution of Yiddish writers in the USSR with Alisa Solomon; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz interviews Gilian Slovo.

August 18 Marcia Freedman, Chair, Brit Tzedek v Shalom (Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace ) and Nadia Hijab (National Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation) about these two new national organizing intiatives; Max Kozloff, guest curator of New York: Capital of Photography at the Jewish Museum.

August 25 Michael Lerner, Tikkun Magazine, on the Cynthia McKinney primary; Brad Lichtenstein , film-maker, Caught in the Crossfire:Arab Americans in Wartime .

September 1 Special on the Economy with Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer; Wayne Barrett, Village Voice, and Don Hanft, Funding Exchange.

September 8 Michael Tomasky, New York magazine, on Schneiderman vs. Linares primary; Debra Schultz , author of Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement and civil rights activist Dorothy Zellner.

September 15 Replay of September 16, 2001 , interview with Nadia Hijab and Ali Abunimah, and call-ins.

September 22 pre-empted

September 29 Wendell Pritchett, author of “ Brownsville , Brooklyn : Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face of the Ghetto,” and Martin Duberman, author of “Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssy.”

October 6 Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, on the war in Iraq , Steven Rose, Open University on the academic boycott of Israeli scholars, Vincent Lloyed, organizer of Princeton divestment campaigner.

October 13 Marathon, The Life of William Moses Kunstler with Michael Ratner , Center for Constitutional Rights and Michael G. Smith, co-editors with Karen Goldman Kunstler of Politics on Trial , Ocean Press.

October 20 pre-empted

November 3 Yitzhak Fran ken thal, founder of Bereaved Parents; David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz authors of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution , University of California Press .

November 10 Eugene Jerecki, director, The Trials of Henry Kissinger , Daniella Gerson, director of Jewish Student Press Service and editor of New Voices with writer Gal Beckerman, Jon Osman, director of Justifiable Homicide .

November 17 Stanley Aronowitz, Green Party candidate for Governor and Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party; Firdirique Pressman, director, A Circus in New York.

November 24 Michel Warshowski, The Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem; Nadi Hijab, U.S.Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation about November 29 actions on transfer; Gerry Albarelli, author of Teacha , Glad Day Press, interviewed by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz .

December 1 Hasia Diner, author of Hungering for America interviewed by Nan Rubin; Phyllis Bennis, author of Before and After , Arthur Waskow of The Shalom Center on Hanukah.

December 8

December 15 Enrico Modigliani, former Italian member of Parliament and Professor Marta Petrusewica, Hunter College on CUNY Chancellor plans to honor Silvio Berlusconi; high stakes testing of teachers with mark Pesson, Committee for a fair licensing procedure and teachers margo Lawson and Victor Accevedo

December 22 Nikhil Aziz, policy analyst Political Research Associates and Vijay Prashad, Professor, Trinity College, on Hindu right, Christian right and Jewisht right alliance; Moushumi Khan of the 96 th Street Mosque and Alisa Solomon, JFREJ, on being a religious minority at Christmas.

December 29 Daniel Levitas, author of The Terrorist Next Door interviewed by Nan Rubin, Alisa Solomon interviews Amy and Elizabeth Ziff of Betty Rules.