Third Planet Report 8/29/07

Who do we follow?  Who is leading and what are they saying?

This week's third planet report produced with the assistance of intern Geoff Trowbridge:

TPR features:

1.  Interviews with Green Party Activists and co-Chairs of Tennessee Green Party--Martin Pleasant and Jim Bascom on history and values of the Green Party and how the Green Party is the wave of the future

2.  Interview with Jim Barmore,  staff of Eco-Village Training Center on biking into the future

3. Jerry Hutchens of recently passed John Gofman, a man dedicated to protecting humanity from low level radiation

4.  Music and intro by hippielawyer and intern Geoff

Alberto won't ya please come home

Third Planet Report 8/22/07 Water Deer and Hurricanes

This week's Third Planet Report deals with the global climate effects on the local environment.  Reporting from the hills of Tennessee we speak with;

1) Alan Peterson, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency biologist about the multitudes of dying deer in the Tennessee backwoods and in particular on The Farm;

2) Doug Stevenson,  The Farm's Manager on water shortages;

3) Cynthia Rohrbach,  environmental specialist on the state of the Tennessee rural environment given the late freeze and the devastating heat and drought;

4)  Albert Bates,  TPR's resident climatologist and peak oil expert, reporting from the Yucatan on hurricane Dean;

5) Songs by Clifford Figallo and Gross National Product--Trees and Ragin

6) United States of Denial by your hippielawyer

Assistance from resident intern and assistant news director Geoff Trowbridge

Onward secular denialists

Alan Graf

Third Planet Report 8/8/07, with hippielawyer Alan Graf

This week's Report features:

1)  Interview with Peter Schweitzer and Elaine Langley on the aftermath of Katrina in Biloxi and New Orleans. Peter and Elaine have just returned from a trip to the area.  Plenty, the grass-roots relief organization that they work for notices that government funding and assistance is still way behind private efforts despite the billions being poured into the area our of government coffers

2) Interview with Michael O'Gorman, an organic farmer and organizer about the effect of the war on small farms and rural communities

3)  An outing of the democrats who voted for the spy bill--shame, shame, shame---fear doesn't cut it anymore guys.  What's the excuse this time?

music by hippielawyer and Marian and Mellani

Third Planet Report 8 1 07

This weeks report features the following:

1) Reading of an article from the Nation 8/6/07, entitled "The Enemy", a compilation of interviews with American military veterans about attacks on Iraq civilians;

2) Interview with law professor Michael Avery about his team's recent 101 million dollar judgment against the FBI for its part in putting 4 innocent men in prison for thirty years;

3) Interview with editor of the Prison Legal News, Paul Wright about PLN's recent award and Paul's reflections on the prison system in general

4) Music by hippielawyer:  "email lover"  and "morning leaves"

The show is posted on the blog http"//hippielaywer.libysn.com where TPR welcomes comments and suggestions

Alan Graf