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September 16, 2007

Today's Guests:
-- BRAD FRIEDMAN on the latest White House spin, the DOJ, and on election integrity
-- REBECCA CLARREN on her investigation into human trafficking in the U.S.

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<> 6:00 pm CDT - Headlines

<> 6:15 pm CDT -- BRAD FRIEDMAN on the latest White House spin, the DOJ, and on election integrity



Brad Friedman is one of our favorite bloggers, and a frequent guest on The Monitor. He is one of the leading sources of news on election reform issues, and he keeps his blog, humbly named for himself, stocked with fresh news of the day.

Co-host Pokey Anderson will catch up with him about this week's spin on the War in Iraq.

We'll also look at further morphing of the Department of Justice into a political arm of the Republican Party, this time by purging voter rolls. Brad writes that they "have found a 'legal' way to use the DoJ to do the illegal vote-caging work the party and their phony well-funded 'grass-roots' used to have to do." (Story below.)

In addition, we'll look at the continuing furor surrounding the Holt Bill, HR 811, which may come up for a vote in the US House next week.


ARTICLE:
"The DoJ is the New ACVR
Republicanists Using Their Politicized Big Government Tools to Fight Against Democracy in America
Voter Roll Purges Ordered for 2008 by DOJ in 10 Key States..."
By Brad Friedman
September 14, 2007
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5063#more-5063

WEBSITE:
Brad Blog www.bradblog.com

ARTICLE:
"Voter Purging: A Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections?"
By Steven Rosenfeld
AlterNet
September 11, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/62133/

"Looking toward the 2008 election, it appears the purges could be a new and legal way to accomplish a controversial longstanding Republican Party electoral tactic -- thinning the ranks of likely Democratic voters in states where there may be close races." -- Steve Rosenfeld


<> 6:40 pm CDT -- REBECCA CLARREN on her investigation into human trafficking in the U.S.



Rebecca Clarren joins Pokey today on The Monitor to discuss human trafficking. Her article, "The Invisible Ones," appears in the current issue of Ms. Magazine. Ms. undertook an investigation into the shadow world of sex and labor trafficking in the United States, and learned not just the dimensions of the problem but the startling inadequacy of the federal response.

Rebecca writes about labor, science, agriculture and the environment for a variety of publications, including The Nation and Ms. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

We previously interviewed Rebecca about her Ms. investigation, "Sex and Greed in a Paradise Lost."


ARTICLE:
"The Invisible Ones," Ms. Magazine, Summer 2007
see introduction and resources at: http://msmagazine.com/summer2007/invisibleones.asp


WEBSITE:
Ms. Magazine http://msmagazine.com/


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September 9
-- Activist DAVID SWANSON on war, impeachment
-- Activist BERT JOHNSON on election reform and H.R. 811: Voter Confidence? or Voter Con?

September 2
-- Gay historian JOHN D'EMILIO on Senator Larry Craig's very bad week
-- DANIEL HOPSICKER on the CIA, the drug trade, and the Mob (Part 2)

August 26
-- Mississippi journalist DONNA LADD on the 1964 Klan double murder prosecution and conviction
-- DANIEL HOPSICKER on Barry Seal, the CIA, the drug trade, and the Mob

August 19
-- JUDY BERTELSEN on California election integrity developments: a watershed?
-- Military Correspondent JOE GALLOWAY re Petraeus report; Karl Rove

August 12
-- Economist DEAN BAKER on the mess in the housing and financial markets
-- JOHN NICHOLS on impeachment

August 5
-- JOHN NICHOLS on impeachment

July 29
-- HARLEY SCHLANGER on the BAE scandal, impeachment and empire
-- Professor and author CHALMERS JOHNSON on the history of the CIA

July 22
-- STEVE HELLER, election whistleblower, interviewed by guest co-host Brad Friedman
-- Law Professor MARJORIE COHN on Congressional subpoenas of White House staff and legal contempt issues