Coming Up on The People Speak Radio Show!
Freedom Flotilla Delegate to Gaza
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 9:00pm-10:00pm Eastern
Paul Larudee was born to an Iranian Presbyterian minister and his American missionary spouse in 1946 and grew up in the American Midwest. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University and spent 14 years in Arab countries as a contracted U.S. government advisor, Fulbright-Hays exchange lecturer, teacher, training administrator and graduate student.
Paul has visited the Palestinian region many times since 1965, including four times with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement that applies nonviolent principles to resist Israeli human rights violations. Paul was among seven ISM volunteers wounded by Israeli gunfire in April, 2002 in an otherwise nonviolent attempt to help Palestinian families. In 2006, he was held in Israeli detention for two weeks while unsuccessfully appealing a decision to deny him entry. He helped organize nonviolent resistance in Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli invasion. He is one of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement, whose boats, on August 23, 2008, became the first in 41 years to enter Gaza by sea, breaking the Israeli naval blockade. He is also a founder of the Free Palestine Movement, which also seeks to challenge Israel’s blockade and denial of access to all of Palestine by sea, air and land.
Laura Garr - Legal Consultant to Indigenous Ecuadorian Community
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:00pm-10:00pm Eastern
KAREN HINTON has battled on behalf of environmental groups for decades, concerning Chevron’s oil drilling practices in the Ecuadorian forest. As President of Hinton Communications, Karen believes that public relations firms have a responsibility with clients such as Chevron before the government steps in to do it. In the case of the recent BP oil leak in the Gulf Coast, Karen called BP “the poster child for bad PR practices.”
“At the beginning of the spill, company executives sounded the right tone, but they couldn’t maintain it because of the lies, misrepresentations and careless decision-making revealed through anonymous sources, leaked memos and, in many instances, the company’s own utterances—many of which have been foolish, half-witted and naive”, said Hinton.
LAURA GARR has been a legal advisor to farmers in the Ecuadorian community devastated by another oil corporation’s devastating practices. Ecuador which is a region in the Amazon slightly larger than Rhode Island has felt the devastating effects of Chevron Oil company’s pollution. The indigenous population in the polluted area suffers from astronomical cancer rates, low birth rates and water quality related death and disease. From 1964 until 1992, Texaco, now Chevron, developed and exploited this oil-rich area. Today, Laura is part of a legal team representing the indigenous Ecuadorian population is trying to hold Chevron accountable.
Both Laura Garr and Karen Hinton offer their unique perspectives and involvement trying to deal with oil corporations’ detrimental practices that adversely affect environment and people.
Medical Marijuana Recipient
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 9:00pm-10:00pm Eastern
George McMahon of Tyler is one of seven people in the United States currently granted federal permission to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, under the “Compassionate Investigational New Drug” (IND) program of the Federal Drug Administration.
At age 52, McMahon has outlived the typical life span of most people diagnosed with the disease from which he suffers — Nail Patella Syndrome. NPS is a hereditary neurological disorder that attacks internal organs and the immune system and is usually characterized by some deformity of fingernails — hence the common name. Eight percent of those with NPS are severely affected, and of those, most never live past age 40. McMahon is an exception. His father died at age 40, his sister at age 44. Both had NPS. His mother also carries the disease but is only mildly affected, with arthriticlike pain.
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