Third Planet Report, 4/11/07

Third Planet Report, 4/11/07 with host hippielawyer Alan Graf

This weeks' Report features the following:

1) Interview with law Professor Bill Quigley regarding two priests he has been representing who were charged with trespassing on a federal facility near Tuscon AZ.  The facility teaches torture and interrogation techniques used in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.  The priests were caught red handed praying on the base. 

The Professor also talks about the continuing dire situation in New Orleans effecting mostly the poor and African-American community and how the government, particularly the federal government, continues to drop the ball.

2) Interview with Ina May Gaskin, world famous midwife and her two friends and associates Helen Knowles and Ping Qiu.  Ina May talks about how women are still be subjugated to unnecessary cesarean sections when they could have their babies delivered naturally.  Ping Qiu, a Chinese artist living in Berlin and Helen Knowles, an artist and curator from Manchester, England, talk about how their activism for womens' rights and issues is expressed through their art and how their friendship with Ina May influenced their artwork.

3)  Interview with civil rights attorney Rose Weber who expresses her concern that the left and progressive movement has unfairly obsessed over Israel and Israel's relationship with the Palestinians.  She takes the position that the plight of the Palestinians is more the fault of the Arab nations than Israel

Music and commentary by hippielawyer