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Here is a selection of our past shows and more. You can listen to them here using the Flash player widget, or you can download them for your offsite listening pleasure.

Redwood City Saltworks - posturing and playing the media

May 18, 2010
Live From The Left Coast

Angie interviews Save The Bay's Stephen Knight on the latest developments in industrial giant Cargill's effort to rezone and develop the Redwood City Salt Ponds.

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New Orleans update / California Teachers Plight

February 18, 2010
Live From The Left Coast

Guest Sandy Rosenthal is the founder and executive director of Levees.org. Guest Lillian Taiz is with the California Faculty Association.

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June 19, 2009, Hour 2 - Food Inc. Director Robert Kenner guests

Live From The Left Coast

Food Inc. Director Robert Kenner talks with Angie about his hard hitting look at the agribusiness industry.

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August 28, 2009 Hour 1 - Buying Our Elections: Corporate Money & Campaign Finance

Live From The Left Coast

Angie covers campaign finance reform from all sides of the issue with Robert Stern of The Center for Governmental Studies and campaign attorney James Sutton.

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July 21, 2009 Hour 2 - Interview with Princeton Professor Melissa Harris Lacewell

Live From The Left Coast

Angie interviews Princeton Professor Melissa Harris Lacewell.

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October 14, 2009 Hour 2 - Quitting The Conservatives

Live From The Left Coast

Angie interviews Canadian author and former political aide Eric Mang about his story 'Quitting The Conservatives: A Personal and Political Journey' - their discussion ranges from how Canadians perceive Americans, the health care issue, and the strong similarities between the Right in both Canada and the US.

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November 5, 2009 Hour 2 - Rape Culture

Live From The Left Coast

Angie discusses the concept of 'rape culture' in our society - is it an accurate description or an inflammatory term? With Jaclyn Friedman - writer, performer and activist, and the editor of the brand-new book, “Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape" and Maggie Hadleigh-West, an internationally recognized social justice activist, filmmaker, producer and public speaker who's film "War Zone" is about sex, power and what happens when men---either knowingly or unknowingly - threaten a woman’s right to walk undisturbed on the streets.

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December 4, 2009 Hour 1 - A Sustainable Liberal Media?

Live From The Left Coast

It's our swan song at Green 960AM. Before moving to KRXA in Monterey next week, we have an esteemed panel of some of our favorite voices on to explore how any liberal news/information entity, be it radio, blog, whatever, can survive and even thrive in today's economy (and political climate). Guests include Green 960 program director John Scott, David Dayen of FireDogLake, Robert Cruickshank of Calitics, and a new voice to the show, Erin Polgreen of the Media Consortium. Also joining Angie are Eve Gittelson, also of FireDogLake and Dante Atkins - Hekebolos at Daily Kos. And because it's Friday - Gotta Laff of The Political Carnival is here for her regular run-down of Right Wing dementia.

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July 2, 2009 Hour 1 - Whither Iraq?, what happens after U.S. pullout from major cities

Live From The Left Coast

Angie's guests are for a discussion of the state of affairs in Iraq are Robert Dreyfuss and Dr. Ivan Eland.

Robert Dreyfuss is a contributing editor to The Nation magazine, and the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (Metropolitan). He's a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone, The American Prospect, and Mother Jones.

Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute; and is the author of Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq.

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August 7, 2009 Hour 2 - State Budget Cuts Impacting the Disabled

Live From The Left Coast

Guest Host David Gans talks with Jim LeBrecht, a sound designer, musician and self-described 'person who uses a wheelchair' about his recent travel woes, and Mary Lou Breslin of DREDF and Lawrence Carter-Long of DNNYC call in to discuss the dramatic impact of recent state and federal budget cuts on the disabled community.

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