OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW will be with DON BEACHLER, Associate professor of politics at Ithaca College.
Beachler has authored numerous papers and articles on congress, elections and voter turnout, as well as two books on presidential elections: "Winning the White House, 2004: Vote By Vote, Region by Region. Coauthored with Kevin McMahon, David Rankin, and John White. Palgrave/Macmillan Press, 2005 and "Winning the White House, 2008." http://faculty.ithaca.edu/beachler/

We will be discussing THE TEABAGGERS: Media Creation or Grassroots Democracy”?

J. David Gray – our resident scribe will join us for another segment of our SYNERGY project. he will read his essay inspired by the image "feed me" - so be sure to view the image at http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr or http://www.jimlynchphotography.com David's other writings can be found at http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith

Our featured interview will be with journalist and blogger David Lindorff. We will discuss a variety of issues related to the disconnect between our citizens and the government; with the military industrial complex front and center. http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

J. David Gray will join us for another segment of our SYNERGY project. he will read his essay inspired by the image "corner transaction" - be sure to view the image at http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr or http://www.jimlynchphotography.com David's other writings can be found at http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith

We will feature the music of Ray Charles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_charles

We will be focusing on propaganda in various cultures.

Our featured interview is with Jeff Podoshen from the Business, Organizations and Society Department at Franklin and Marshall College. He currently teaches Marketing Principles, Consumer Behavior and Propaganda and Genocide in the 20th Century. Jeff has also taught in Vietnam and in many Executive MBA programs. http://edisk.fandm.edu/jeffrey.podoshen/

We will also honor the life of author, educator, radical and humanist Howard Zinn. http://www.howardzinn.org

We will feature the music of Joe Jackson http://tinyurl.com/ykt4m8

We have a great show lined up as we explore … “WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE” with a focus on WAHMS (working at home moms).

WE WILL SPEAK WITH Alison Holt, senior vice president for the Interactive Entertainment Group of GolinHarris Los Angeles where she has led the award-winning media relations work on the Nintendo account there for the last 15 years.

Alison directs the media relations for the Nintendo brand including product launches, crisis communications and corporate communications.

As part of our Synergy Project, we plan to have our resident scribe J. David Gray read his essay inspired by the image "window dressing". you can view the image at http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr or at http://jimlynchphotography.com - just pull down the "new images" gallery. David's other writings can be found at http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith

... and dont forget Haiti relief donations. thanks.

TODAY we explore WOMEN IN POLITICS, from the suffragettes 90+ years ago to the present.

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW is with PAULA CASEY, writer, editor and speaker. She has produced a DVD on woman suffrage and helped publish a book, "The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage". http://www.theperfect36.com

MUSIC by singer-songwriter/slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt

Part 2 of The Politics and Economics of College Sports.

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW is with HOLT HACKNEY, President of Hackney Publications, a leading publisher of sports law newsletters. Among his current titles are Sports Litigation Alert, Legal Issues in Collegiate Athletics, Legal Issues in High School Athletics and the Journal of NCAA Compliance. Hackney has spent the better part of three decades writing about sports, business and the law. Hackney pioneered the sports business beat in national business magazines. http://www.hackneypublications.com/

Our resident storyteller, Margaret Meyers will join us with a seasonal story. http://www.storyteller.net/tellers/mmeyers

We will feature music from Sarah Vaughan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan

THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF COLLEGE SPORTS.
OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW is with AMY PERKO. Amy has served as executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics since 2005 after contributing to the Commission’s work as the associate director for nearly two years. During this time, the Commission continued to push for many of its academic reform recommendations, which have been realized through policy changes made by the NCAA.
In October 2008, Perko helped lead the Commission as it began a year-long series of meetings and research efforts on the economics of college sports. This research was conducted so the Knight Commission could gather critical information to share with all leaders responsible for managing complex sports finances issues during particularly challenging economic times. http://www.knightcommission.org/
FULL KNIGHT COMMISSION REPORT: http://tinyurl.com/y8ftbdl

Also featuring the music of Rosanne Cash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Cash

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW is with writer and arts administrator, Jane Weissman. She is a longtime member of Artmakers Inc, an artist-run, politically oriented community mural organization that creates high quality public art relevant to the lives and concerns of people in their neighborhoods. With artist Janet Braun-Reinitz, she wrote the cultural history, On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City (University Press of Mississippi, 2009). Their article "Community, Consensus, and the Protest Mural" appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Public Art Review. http://www.artmakersnyc.org

You can meet Jane and view the murals exhibition at Stony Brook University on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 4:00PM in the Humanities Building, Room 1013. Park conveniently in the main entrance/admin building parking garage. The exhibit is right off the lobby of the Humanities Building behind the Admin Building. TELL THEM WUSB SENT YOU!

We will also be featuring singer-songwriter John Hiatt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hiatt

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW will be with Dave Scarzella, Quad Director at Kelly Quad here on the campus of Stony Brook University. He has worked at Stony Brook University for twelve years for the Division of Campus Residences. http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/res/

In his role as Quad Director, David is a senior staff member of both Residential Programs and the College of Human Development.

We will enjoy the music of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

FEATURED INTERVIEW: Pat Coy, co-author of "Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement". This sociological look at our efforts from 1990 (Gulf War I) to present is an excellent analysis of our shifting strategies and the pushback from what the authors call the "power holders". Coy is Director, Center for Applied Conflict, Kent State University - The Center was established in 1971 as a "living memorial" and as KSU's first institutional response to the shootings on May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen killed four and injured nine Kent State University students during a student protest against the US war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

More information on the book and the center at http://www1.kent.edu/cacm/

Note: Hofstra Univ. sociologist Gregory Maney is another of the co-authors.

We will feature singer-songwriter David Rovics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_rovics

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW: Mary Ellen Balchunis, political science faculty at LaSalle University in Philly. She is a Fulbright Scholar, having taught Mass Media and Politics in Sweden. She served as an assistant to the Mayor of Philadelphia. Mary Ellen is also active in the Deleware County Democratic Party http://www.delcodems.com/

We will feature the solo music of Mark Knopfler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_knopfler

We will feature the organizaton Food Not Bombs. http://www.lifnb.com/
Jon Stepanian and Vincent Cocca will detail the history, goals and activities of Food Not Bombs. This international effort consists of grassroots activism that provides groceries, fresh food and warm meals to low income communities. All the food is completely vegetarian and mostly organic. They also collect clothing, books, toiletries and toys for redistribution. Be sure to also check out: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/

We will feature the music of The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band.

RING THOSE PHONES OFF THE HOOKS! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT DURING OUR FALL RADIOTHON. THANK YOU!!!!

OUR FEATURED GUEST will be: Michael Allen, a historian of US political culture with focus on the ways in which war and memories of war reconfigured U.S. politics in the late twentieth-century. His book Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) examines the unprecedented level of concern regarding captive and missing Americans during and after Vietnam.

We will feature the music of Taj Mahal.

DONT FORGET TO PLEDGE!! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU.

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW is with: Angela Ledford, associate professor of political science at The College of St. Rose in Albany. Dr. Ledford focuses on democratic theory, electoral politics and political representation, particularly as it relates to race, class and gender in the U.S. Her current research focuses on immigration, nationalism and citizenship. She holds a doctorate in political science from the University of South Carolina and a master’s degree in political science from Texas Tech University. http://tinyurl.com/ygag69u

J. David Gray will rejoin us with an essay for our SYNERGY project. the image this week will be "daily grind". you can find the image at http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr within the "new images" gallery. David's other writings can be found at: http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith

Musically, we will feature standards from Willie Nelson.

OUR FEATURED GUEST TODAY: Robert Thacker,Professor of Canadian Studies and English Literature at St. Lawrence University, Canton,NY.

OUR RESIDENT STORY TELLER, Margaret Meyers, will tell a fine story today. Her website is http://storyteller.net/tellers/mmeyers.

WE ARE FEATURING Long Island's own Jane Monheit,singing standards.

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW is with Ritu Sharma, a leading voice on international women’s issues and U.S. foreign policy. Due in large part to Ritu and Women Thrive Worldwide, the interests of women living in poverty worldwide are now being incorporated into U.S. economic assistance and trade policies and, in some cases, into U.S. law itself. http://www.womenthrive.org/

ALSO ... our scribe, J. David Gray will have an essay for our SYNERGY project. this week's featured image title is: "mute" - it can be found at http://www.jimlynchphotography.com OR http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr pull down the NEW IMAGES gallery. david's other writings can be found at http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith

WE WILL FEATURE THE MUSIC OF BLUESWOMAN MARCIA BALL.

OUR FEATURED INTERVIEW GUEST is Ivan Kenneally, assistant professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology with a research focus on American politics and political philosophy. He has published in Perspectives on Political Science, The Political Science Reviewer, Policy Review, Society and The New Atlantis. Kenneally teaches American Politics, American Foreign Policy, War and the State, Judicial Process, and International Politics at RIT.

“THE PAUSE” is our image for J. David Gray and our SYNERGY project. Pull up the image at http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr or http://JimLynchPhotography.com - in the “new images” gallery. david's other writing can be found at http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith/

This show features the music of Emmy Lou Harris.

FEATURED GUEST: David Calleo, Professor and Director of the European Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University. His latest book, on Cambridge University Press is “Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy”. He has written numerous other books, including “Rethinking Europe's Future”, “The Bankrupting of America: How the Federal Deficit Is Impoverishing the Nation” and “Beyond American Hegemony: The Future of the Western Alliance”.

WUSB's very own Dr. Wilbur Larch will attempt to phone us from China.

Our Featured Guest is Rajan Menon, Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. Menon serves as a consultant to several US government agencies involving such issues as the link between demography and grand strategy, East Asian security, alternative futures for China, Indian national security policy, terrorism, ethnic conflict, and energy and security.

Our resident scribe, J. David Gray will join us for our project "Synergy" and we will listen to Part IV of "Rethinking Afghanistan".

TODAY OUR FEATURED GUEST IS IVAN ELAND, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute; 15 years working for Congress on national security issues; author of Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq, Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty, The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed and Putting “Defense” Back into U.S. Defense Policy. author of 45 in-depth studies on national security issues.

... and the music of Golden Smog