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In the wake of decisions by grand juries in both Missouri and New York's Staten Island not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed African-Americans, this edition of Moyers & Company is an encore broadcast of Bill's conversation earlier this year with journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic, about his cover story "The Case for Reparations" about why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.
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In the months before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. had expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic inequality. What has happened to Dr. King's vision of economic justice? In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander-experts in civil rights advocacy and litigation-to discuss just how far the U.S. has come as a country, why poor and working-class Americans have...
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Journalism's job is to cover the news, but it's the work of investigative reporters to uncover the news powerful people prefer to keep hidden, says Bill Moyers. This edition of the Journal takes a hard and fresh look at how earmarks really work with "Mr. Heath Goes to Washington," a segment produced with the public TV series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports. It profiles Seattle Times reporters on the trail of how members of Congress have...
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Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum- The Yes Men- have discovered that high-visibility pranks can get major press attention for important issues that would otherwise be ignored. In this program, Bill Moyers gets in on the joke with these two impersonators, who use satirical "identity correction" to make serious points about media consolidation, journalism, business ethics, and separating fact from fiction in a world of spin. Also on the program: poet...
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In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers speaks with award-winning journalist Leila Fadel, who-just back from reporting on the Iraq War while under fire in Sadr City-offers firsthand analysis of the ongoing violence there. Moyers then interviews renowned philosopher Martha Nussbaum, whose latest book, Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality, offers an interesting take on the separation of church and state...
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Theodore Olson, one of the nation's premier appellate and United States Supreme Court advocates, and David Boies, one of the country's preeminent trial lawyers, argued opposite sides for the fate of the 2000 election in Bush v. Gore but teamed up in the fight to overturn California's Proposition 8 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with them to discuss why this unexpected duo have taken...
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What are the implications of the United States' $9 trillion federal debt for future generations of Americans? In this program, Bill Moyers gets a reality check from PublicAgenda.org's Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, coauthors of Where Does the Money Go? Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis. In addition, Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, talks about the crisis of ignorance in the U.S. and how a "flight from reason" is playing...
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina, tens of thousands of people in Mississippi are still displaced, in limbo, with no solution in sight. This edition of Bill Moyers Journal profiles the Steps Coalition, a group fighting on behalf of those still in need of housing. In addition, the Journal continues to probe the FCC's proposed plan to loosen media ownership. Also on the program, the University of Florida's Manuel A. Vásquez sheds light on a growing...
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Leymah Gbowee was born and raised in Liberia. She inspired and united her countrywomen to march with her against a dictator and restore the rule of law to their country. And her riveting story has been captured in an award-winning documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. In this edition of the Journal, guest host Lynn Sherr, Liberia correspondent for Worldfocus, interviews activist Leymah Gbowee and the filmmaker, Abigail Disney, who recorded her...
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Green Party Leader Gayle McLaughlin and journalist Harriet Blair Rowan about the small city of Richmond, California where in recent elections a slate of progressive candidates challenged pro-business candidates, backed to the tune of more than
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Marking the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Bill Moyers gathers insight from Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell and environmental journalist Mike Tidwell, focusing on what the destruction of New Orleans says about American culture and values as well as the nation's readiness for future natural disasters. Also on the program, celebrated religious historian Martin E. Marty discusses his latest book, The Mystery of the Child, an innovative...
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Since becoming the chairperson of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has battled to put global warming at the top of the Congressional priority list. In this program, Senator Boxer sits down with Bill Moyers to talk about the state of the environment, policies she thinks could help clean up the Earth, and the opposition to her measures. Then, the Journal and Exposé: America's Investigative Reports go...
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, the only independent member of the US Senate, about purchasing political power. It's a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral process but to democracy itself. Sanders is angry about what he sees as big money's wholesale purchase. He cites the mayoral election in Richmond, California where Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is running against a ticket backed by...
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This program features The Test, the story of Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac, and Blessed Deception, the story of how Rebekah tricked Isaac into blessing Jacob instead of Esau. Bill Moyers' guests include theologians Marianne Meye Thompson and Francisco Garcia-Treto; Phyllis Trible, Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature at Union Theological Seminary; Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr; P.K. McCary, author of Black Bible Chronicles; psychotherapist...
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This program features The First Murder, the story of Cain and Abel, and Apocalypse, the story of Noah, his ark, and the great flood. Bill Moyers' guests include Franciscan priest and scholar Alexander DiLella, poet Blu Greenberg, Rabbi Burton Visotzky, psychologist Carol Gilligan, and authors John Barth, Rebecca Goldstein, Oscar Hijuelos, Faye Kellerman, and Karen Armstrong. Together they and others consider sibling relationships, the nature of justice...
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As leader of Christians United for Israel, Pastor John Hagee wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel, but some say his message is dangerous. This program features an interview with Pastor Hagee, after which Bill Moyers gets theological and political context on Christian Zionism from Timothy Weber and Michael Lerner. Dr. Weber, an evangelical Christian and a historian, is the author of On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals...
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Robert A. Williams Jr., a professor specializing in American Indian law, about American Indian's tragic history of dispossession. Williams says stereotypes about American Indians have been codified into laws and government policies, with devastating consequences. Williams, who is of Lumbee Indian heritage, says, "very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources,...
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Author and historian Steve Fraser about provisions in the new spending bill, drafted by Citigroup, that expand the amount of campaign donations wealthy donors can give, and lets banks off the hook for gambling with customer (and taxpayer) money. Fraser compares our current age with the First Gilded Age when people rose in rebellion against the powers that be. Today we do not see "that enormous...
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill points to the changing skyline of Manhattan as the physical embodiment of how money and power impact the lives and neighborhoods of every day people. Soaring towers being built at the south end of Central Park, with apartments selling from $30 million to $90 million, are beginning to block the light on the park below. Many of the apartments are being sold at those sky high prices to the international super...
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In the wake of the Annapolis peace conference, Bill Moyers Journal looks at Pastor John Hagee's politically powerful group Christians United for Israel, which opposes a two-state solution and calls Iran the head of the beast of radical Islam in the Middle East. Bill Moyers then gets theological and political perspective on the situation in Israel from Ronald J. Sider, director of the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy and author of The Scandal...