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ACTION SPEAKS 2003
Under-Appreciated Days That Changed America
Sundays at 7pm on 1290 WRNI.
Attend live event Tuesday evenings at 5:30.
The Action Speaks forums are a series of six panel discussions
with audience participation that take place at AS220 in downtown
Providence on Tuesday evenings from 5:30 to 7pm (please note one
exception: the October 14 panel is at 7pm at URI downtown campus).
The discussions are moderated by Marc Joel Levitt.
Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download. Audio is archived on the Web four hours after the WRNI radio broadcast.
Postwar U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1946. Can democracy be "Imposed"?
Live Event: October 7
WRNI Broadcast: October 12
Panelists:
Melani Cammett, professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Brown
University
John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, MIT;
author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Neta Crawford, Associate Professor (Research), Thomas J.
Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University
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to Listen
Immigrant and Nationality Act, 1965
America's "Complexion" Changed Forever
Live Event: October 14
WRNI Broadcast: October 19
Please note: This particular
discussion will be held at URI's Paff Auditorium, 80 Washington
Street on the Providence Campus at 7:00pm
Panelists:
David Cicilline, Mayor of the City of Providence
Robert Lee, Associate Professor in the American Civilization
Dept. at Brown University
Ronald Fernandez, Director of the Center for Caribbean and
Latin American Studies at Central Connecticut State University;
author of America's Banquet of Cultures: Harnessing Immigration,
Race and Ethnicity in the Twenty-First Century
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to Listen
Native American Gaming Law, 1998
A Chance to Take a Chance
Live Event: October 21
WRNI Broadcast: October 26
Panelists:
Jackson Lears, Professor of History at Rutgers University;
author of Something for Nothing: Luck in America
Tom Acevedo, Chief of Staff for the Mohegan Tribe
Christine Reilly, Executive Director of the Institute for
Research on Pathological Gambling & Related Disorders at Harvard
Medical School
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to Listen
Port Huron Statement Written, 1962
Students for a Democratic Society is Created and 1960's Student
Radicalism has its "Constitution"
Live Event: October 28
WRNI Broadcast: November 2
Panelists:
Paul Buhle, Senior Lecturer, American Civilization Dept.
at Brown University
Robert J.S. Ross, PhD
Professor of Sociology, Director of International Studies Stream,
Clark University
Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler and author of "One
Market Under God"
Mare Davis, professor of English, Johnson & Wales University;
SDS organizer, Kent State University
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to Listen
Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested! 1920
Terrorism, Racial Profiling and Restrictions on Personal Liberties
or a Nation at Risk
Live Event: November 4
WRNI Broadcast: November 9
Panelists:
David Kaiser, Professor, Strategy &Policy Dept., Naval
War College
Ashanti Alston, presently the Northeast regional coordinator
for Critical Resistance, is a former member of both the Black Panther
Party and Black Liberation Army, and was a political prisoner for
over 12 years.
Currently, he is a member of Estacion Libre, a people of color Zapatista
support group, as well as a board member for the Institute for Anarchist
Studies. Mr. Alston also authors the zine Anarchist Panther.
Harvey Silverglate, a partner in the Boston law firm of Silverglate
& Good; columnist on criminal justice and civil liberties issues
for The Boston Phoenix ("Freedom Watch") and The National
Law Journal.
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to Listen
UGA Coins the Term "Graffiti Artists", 1973
It's Our City and We'll Paint Where We Want To
Live Event: November 11
WRNI Broadcast: November 16
Panelists:
Gordon Crews, Associate Dean, School of Justice Studies,
Roger Williams University
Ivor Miller, author of Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of
New York City
Angel Garcia, Graffiti Artist
Members of the Rhode Island Debate League
The Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University will Sponsor
a debate entitled "Spray this! The Ethics of Graffiti"
between 4 and 5pm, featuring accomplished high school debaters from
the Rhode Island Debate League.
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to Listen
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