Author: Bill Moyers
Publisher: PBS
Running Time: 55 Min.
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Bill Moyers takes viewers on a rare journey into the works and worlds of provocative authors to plumb new ways of thinking about the role of religion in shaping our world.
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Buying the War
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Wed, Apr 25, 2007
Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln and delivered a speech in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner. Despite profound questions and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House's claim that the war was won. How did they get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 continue to go largely unreported?
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Jon Stewart and Josh Marshall
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Apr 27, 2007
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers begins his new weekly series Bill Moyers Journal with an interview with Jon Stewart, the anchor of the award-winning The Daily Show for eight years, about why so many get their news and analysis from his fake news show. Also on the program: Josh Marshall, blogger and publisher of the influential talkingpointsmemo.com, gives his perspective on role of politics in the recent firings of federal prosecutors. And Bill Moyers remembers David Halberstam.
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Carlo Bonini, Jonathan Miller and Jerry Miller
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, May 04, 2007
As Congress investigates why the Administration made false pre-war claims, Italy's foremost investigative reporter Carlo Bonini, takes viewers on the trail of the forged intelligence documents purporting that Iraq sought to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger. Also on the program: Bill Moyers interviews Jerry Miller, the 200th person exonerated by postconviction DNA testing about clearing his name; and British renaissance man—physician, author, and director of theater and opera—Jonathan Miller about the hidden story of atheism..
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Regent University, REASON magazine's Nick Gillespie, historian Marilyn B. Young
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, May 11, 2007
The recent controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors found Regent University graduate Monica Goodling—special counsel to Alberto Gonzalez and one of some 150 Regent students who have worked in the Bush administration since 2001—at the center of a political firestorm over her involvement. Bill Moyers Journal takes viewers to commencement at Pat Robertson's university for a closer look at its mission to ensure Biblical principles are reflected in the law of the land. Also on the program: Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief of the libertarian monthly Reason magazine, discusses the war, the media, and the impact of the religious right in Washington today; and historian Marilyn B. Young, co-editor of Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past, talks about history's lessons for the war in Iraq.
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The Cost of War
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, May 11, 2007
It's a question that can be addressed in many ways. The National Priorities Project keeps a constantly running count of war costs — and compares the totals with what the dollars would buy in other government services. Fiscal conservatives keep an eye on the Department of Treasury's national debt to the penny. Of course there are costs that cannot be quantified in dollars.
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Melissa Harris-Lacewell on race in America, Bruce Bawer on fundamentalisms, and Rick MacArthur on the trade deal
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, May 18, 2007
Bill Moyers Journal looks at the trade deal in the works between the new leadership in Congress and the Bush Administration, which has the Democrats under fire from America's workers. Bill Moyers gets perspective on the deal from Harper's magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, author of The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy. Also on the program, Princeton's Melissa Harris Lacewell on race, politics, and spirituality; and author Bruce Bawer, who left America for Europe to escape fundamentalist bigotry, on what his journey says about America, Europe, and Islamic fundamentalism?
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, May 25, 2007
On Memorial Day weekend, Bill Moyers Journal presents an illuminating interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, acclaimed author of many books including the award-winning The Woman Warrior and her latest book Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. For the past 15 years, Kingston has been working with veterans – more than 500 soldiers from World War II, from Vietnam, and now, from Iraq - as well as other survivors of war to convert the horrors they experienced into the words and stories that Kingston believes will help them cope and survive.
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D-Day Revisited
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Mon, May 28, 2007
As America honors heroes who have fought and fallen for their nation, Bill Moyers Journal presents "D-Day Revisited," a special one-hour broadcast which follows a group of World War II veterans back to Europe to speak about their wartime experiences—some of them unlocking memories they had been keeping inside for nearly 50 years. Featuring excerpts from the Bill Moyers' 1990 documentary From D-Day to the Rhine, "D-Day Revisited" includes the latest information about the veterans featured in the film who talked with Bill Moyers about their memories, their values, and their commitment to America.
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Cleaning House in Congress and Bob Kerrey on Iraq
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jun 01, 2007
Former Democratic senator Bob Kerrey is making his case for a refocused mission in Iraq. The 9/11 Commission member and Vietnam war veteran tells Bill Moyers why having US military forces in Iraq is necessary in fighting terrorism, but calls for a bipartisan plan to end US policing and occupation in the war torn nation. One of Washington's most influential public advocates, Joan Claybrook of Public Citizen, talks about what is at stake in the ethical reforms under consideration in Congress. Bill Moyers shares his perspective on the Vietnam war in an essay featuring archival audio of conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and US National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy.
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Overpaid Airline Execs? Plus, Christian Parenti and Bishop Jefferts Schori
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jun 08, 2007
Beginning to trade on the NYSE last week, Northwest airlines dodged the bankruptcy bullet. But while a $1.4 billion a year cut in labor expenses have ensured lower costs, why are airline executives still executives still flying high on salaries, stock options and benefits while workers and retirees see cuts in pay and compensation? Then, with heated debate looming large over progress reports and withdrawal deadlines for Iraq, what's next for Afghanistan? Journalist Christian Parenti, just back from his fourth visit to the forgotten frontline, speaks to Moyers about the growing influence of warlords in government, the resurgence of the Taliban as well as the drug trade, and life on the ground in Afghanistan. And, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori - spiritual leader to 7,500 congregations and more than 2 million members - talks about science, the environment, and gay rights, issues that threaten her church with division and disunity.
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Labor leader Andy Stern, Activist Grace Lee Boggs and a Bill Moyers Essay
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jun 15, 2007
On Wall Street, private equity firms are buying up corporations and turning them around for huge profits. What does it mean for America's workers and for the economic gap between average families and the wealthiest Americans? Andrew Stern, the president of Service Employees International Union—the fastest growing union in the nation—weighs in. Also on the program, Bill Moyers interviews writer, activist, and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs, who has taken part in some of the seminal civil rights struggles in U.S. history, about her belief that real change for democracy will come from the grassroots. "We're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country," she says. "We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make…in order to force the government to do differently."
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HARPER's magazine's Ken Silverstein on foreign lobbying and Imam Zaid Shakir
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jun 22, 2007
When Harper's Magazine editor Ken Silverstein went undercover to recruit Washington lobbyists to help improve the image of Turkmenistan, a corrupt foreign government with appalling human rights abuses, K-Street firms laid out plans to get the job done. What does it say about the state of influence-peddling in Washington? Bill Moyers gets the inside story from Silverstein. Also on the program, Imam Zaid Shakir has been called a voice of conscience for American Muslims, but his views on Islam in America put him at the center of a heated debate about faith and culture.
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Financial writer Gretchen Morgenson, GOP stalwart Vic Gold, Lori Wallach on trade and Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jun 29, 2007
With U.S. mortgages entering foreclosure at a record pace, the crisis has far reaching implications, from the financial markets to the financial health of ordinary Americans. For the latest, Bill Moyers interviews assistant business and financial editor at The New York Times Gretchen Morgenson, who has been covering the story. Also on the program: Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, on the secret trade deal negotiated by leaders of the Democratic Party and its implications for labor unions, consumer groups and the environment; life-long GOP insider Victor Gold on the current state of the Republican Party; and Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal.
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Biologist E.O. Wilson and Washington DC's Earth Conservation Corps
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jul 06, 2007
Dedicating his life to the exploration of life on Earth, E.O. Wilson is one of the world's foremost authorities on biology. Bill Moyers Journal profiles the author of 25 Books and recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, who speaks about what humankind needs to understand about the Earth to heal it and about his latest project The Encyclopedia of Life - a digital, online catalog of every single living species on the planet. And, Bill Moyers Journal updates a report on the non-profit group, the Earth Conservation Corps (ECC), composed of young adults from the banks of the Anacostia River - an area of environmental disaster and a home for violence. There in the shadow of the Capitol, the ECC works to reclaim a dying neighborhood by providing leadership tools to disadvantaged youth while cleaning up the environment.
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Tough Talk on Impeachment
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jul 13, 2007
In the wake of President Bush's commutation of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's prison sentence, talk of impeachment is gaining steam as a new opinion poll says that nearly half of Americans favor the impeachment of the President and more than half believe Vice President Cheney should be impeached. Bill Moyers gets perspective from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and The Nation's John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment
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The Yes Men, Poet Martin Espada, and a Tribute to Sekou Sundiata
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jul 20, 2007
The Yes Men - aka Mike Bonanno and
Andy Bichlbaum - who discovered that pranks could get press attention to important issues that would otherwise be ignored. Also on
the program, renowned poet Martin Espada speaks about his love of language and the human need for poetry as he reflects on how
heritage and immigration, and violence and war, have influenced his work.
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Al Qaeda and Iraq, Earmarks, and a Bill Moyers Essay on sacrifice
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Jul 27, 2007
Al Qaeda and Iraq, Earmarks, and a Bill Moyers Essay on sacrifice.
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Author Barbara Ehrenreich on inequality in America, and Critic Clive James on who's worth remembering in the 20th Century
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Aug 03, 2007
Bill Moyers talks with author Barbara Ehrenreich about inequality in America and discusses who's worth remembering in the 20th Century with culture critic, Clive James.
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Lessons of Katrina, historian Martin E. Marty, and Bill Moyers on Karl Rove
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Aug 17, 2007
As the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, Bill Moyers gets two views on what the disaster and its aftermath says about American culture and values with Princeton's Melissa Harris-Lacewell and author and environmental journalist Mike Tidwell. Also on the program, one of the country's leading historians, Martin E. Marty, who has spent a lifetime unraveling the mysteries of the world's religions, discusses his latest book on the mystery of childhood and what adults can learn from it. And, Bill Moyers bids farewell to Karl Rove.
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Media power grab?
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Aug 24, 2007
Local news is the heartbeat of democracy, so why is it disappearing from many communities around the nation? Media consolidation isn't widely covered by the mainstream press, but potential changes being considered to the rules governing the nation's big media companies could have far reaching effects on democracy. Bill Moyers Journal devotes an hour to this important issue with a report on the disappearance of local news and community radio and in-depth interviews with journalist Rick Karr, media activist Hannah Sassaman, and FCC Commissioner Michael Copps.
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Poet Robert Bly and Activist Grace Lee Boggs
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Aug 31, 2007
The poetry of Robert Bly has touched on spiritual insights and deep truths about American culture. With more than 30 books, including the National Book Award-winning THE LIGHT AROUND THE BODY, Bly also became known for co-founding American Writers Against the Vietnam War in 1966. His 1990 work IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN is an international bestseller which has been translated into many languages. Also on the program activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs, who has taken part in some of the seminal civil rights struggles in U.S. history, discusses her belief that real change for democracy will come from the grassroots.
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Domestic Spying, The Terror Presidency from the Inside, Mountaintop Mining
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Sep 07, 2007
Bill Moyers interviews executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Anthony D. Romero and former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards about wiretapping and domestic surveillance. And, Jack Goldsmith, former head the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, gives an insider's view of advising the President on the limits of executive power during the war on terror. Also on the program, as proposed new rules may allow coal companies to expand mountain top removal mining, Bill Moyers Journal takes viewers to the mountains of West Virginia, which are being stripped for their coal with often disastrous environmental consequences for surrounding communities, to report on local evangelical Christians who are turning to their faith to help save the earth.
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Rachel Carson's legacy.
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Sep 21, 2007
Forty-five years after the publication of Rachel Carson's landmark book Silent Spring, which launched the modern environmental movement, her disturbing story of how toxic chemicals were poisoning the earth still resonates. But who was Rachel Carson? And what can the ferocious debate she started and the vicious attacks she endured tell us about environmentalism in the 21st century? Bill Moyers Journal looks at the life and legacy of Rachel Carson through an extraordinary portrayal of her in a one-woman play performed by veteran stage actress Kaiulani Lee, whose play A Sense of Wonder has been the centerpiece of regional and national conferences on conservation, education, journalism, and the environment for more than ten years. The broadcast combines excerpts from the play, an interview with Lee and documentary reporting on Carson's life and work in a powerful look at this scientist, writer, and seeker of the truth.
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Chris Jordan: In Katrina's Wake
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Sep 21, 2007
In 2005, 10 weeks after Hurricane Katrina, photographer Chris Jordan documented the devastation in a series entitled, "In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss From an Unnatural Disaster," published by Princeton Architectural Press, NY.
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Capitalism in crisis.
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Sep 28, 2007
Is there a crisis in American capitalism? Investment industry giant John Bogle says that as more and more money managers take control over corporations on Wall Street, Main Street is paying the price. Named by Fortune magazine as one of the four "Giants of the 20th Century," Bogle tells Moyers: "The evidence is quite compelling that today corporations are run in a very important way to maximize the returns of its managers at the expense of its stockholders." Also on the program, NPR's Deborah Amos—just back from Damascus—and The New Yorker's George Packer on the Iraq war and what you haven't heard from Washington.
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Bill Moyers Essay: For the Fallen
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Sep 28, 2007
Bill Moyers on the fate of the authors of "The War as We Saw It."
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Christians for Israel.
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Oct 05, 2007
As leader of the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Pastor John Hagee wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel. But some say his message is dangerous: "It is time for America to…consider a military preemptive strike against Iran to prevent a nuclear holocaust in Israel and a nuclear attack in America." Bill Moyers Journal reports on CUFI and then gets theological and political context from Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of TIKKUN, a Jewish journal of politics, culture, and spirituality, and Dr. Timothy P. Weber, an evangelical Christian, historian, and the author of ON THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON: HOW EVANGELICALS BECAME ISRAEL'S BEST FRIEND. Also on the program, a year after the tragic shooting, Bill Moyers looks at what the Amish can teach us about healing.
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Bill Moyers Essay: On Amish Grace
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Oct 05, 2007
A year after the tragic shooting, Bill Moyers looks at what the Amish can teach us about healing.
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Wall Street Woes, Author Anouar Majid and Honoring Doris Lessing
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Oct 12, 2007
Could we see a repeat of the big stock market crash of '29? This week on Bill Moyers Journal, veteran market watcher Robert Kuttner and Wall Street insider William H. Donaldson give their read of the current economic landscape and discuss the risks of the deregulation of the financial industry. Donaldson was the 27th chairman of the SEC and is the former chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, and Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine and was a longtime columnist for Business Week. Also, novelist and essayist Anouar Majid, who talks about the necessity for dissent in his most recent book, A CALL FOR HERESY: WHY DISSENT IS VITAL TO ISLAM AND AMERICA and honoring Doris Lessing.
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Examining Blackwater
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Oct 19, 2007
Blackwater CEO Erik Prince has been on the PR offensive this week, appearing on television to answer questions about his security firm Blackwater and its involvement in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians. Why is the press buying it? Bill Moyers interviews journalist Jeremy Scahill to help separate the spin from the reality. Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of the bestselling book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
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Presidential Power
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Oct 26, 2007
How far can a President go to defend the nation? Bill Moyers Journal examines the unprecedented Presidential power some say is being amassed by our current Administration and kept secret in the name of national security. Moyers gets perspective from Charles Fried, who teaches Constitutional law at Harvard Law School and served as solicitor general in the Reagan Administration, and Fritz Schwarz, who served as counsel to the U.S. Senate select committee led by Frank Church of Idaho that uncovered decades of abuse by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
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Media Consolidation
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Nov 02, 2007
Big Media is pushing the FCC to relax ownership rules again to give conglomerates more control over what Americans read, see, and hear. What most Americans don't know is that the FCC plans to fast track the rule changes and cut off public comment in December. Who wins and who loses? Bill Moyers Journal reports on the real-world consequences of media policy through the lens of how it affects minority media ownership in America. Also on the program, Moyers interviews Katherine S. Newman, author of The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, about the millions in America, who despite decent wages can't access public assistance and are one step away from poverty.
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Historian Thomas Cahill
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Nov 09, 2007
Bill Moyers interviews best-selling historian Thomas Cahill in a far ranging interview that takes viewers from the Coliseum in Rome to death row in Texas and examines what our attitudes toward cruelty can tell us about who we are as Americans. "However difficult it may be the only way you are going to gain closure is to let go of your hatred" says Cahill, who is best known for his The Hinges of History series of books, which includes the widely read How the Irish Saved Civilization. Cahill says his books ask how we became the people we are: "It's human cruelty that is evil. We're not willing to acknowledge that this is inside of us. It's there," he says. "I'm really interested inwhat's good about us."
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Katrina recovery woes
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Nov 16, 2007
Two years after Katrina, casinos, hotels and condos are coming back strong in the hardest hit areas of Mississippi, but tens of thousands of people are still displaced—in limbo with no solution in sight. Bill Moyers Journal profiles a group known as The Steps Coalition, which is fighting on behalf of families who are still in need of housing, and examines what's happened to the money Congress sent to rebuild. The Steps Coalition argues that Governor Haley Barbour's recovery plan has made it difficult for the states' poorest families to rebuild. Also on the program, a different take on immigration from author Manuel A. Vasquez. "This whole concept of illegality...is really problematic. Because it really doesn't go to the complexities of the situation," he says.
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Race in America
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Nov 23, 2007
With the noose and the lynching tree entering the national discussion in the wake of recent news events, Bill Moyers interviews theologian James Cone about how these powerful images relate to the symbol of the cross and how they signify both tragedy and triumph. "It was the poor, black victims being lynched. In Rome time, it was poor Jews being lynched. The analogy is almost perfect there," he says. "So, how are we today going to understand what was happening to Jesus unless we see what was happening to black people in those trees?" Dr. Cone is the Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
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Middle East Peace?
Author: Bill Moyers Journalmoyersonpbs@thirteen.org (Bill Moyers Journal)
Fri, Nov 30, 2007
In the wake of this week's peace summit in Annapolis, Bill Moyers Journal profiles the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), whose leader Pastor John Hagee wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel. But some say his message is dangerous: "It is time for America to…consider a military preemptive strike against Iran to prevent a nuclear holocaust in Israel and a nuclear attack in America." Bill Moyers Journal reports on CUFI and then gets theological and political context on Christian Zionism from Ronald J. Sider, Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry and Public Policy and Director of the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary and President of Evangelicals for Social Action, |