Weekend line up for Air America radio programs (from the Air America Radio home page):
Liberal Arts • Saturday 1-2pm ET
Join Katherine Lanpher for the first in our summer series of "Liberal Arts." Singer-songwriter Dar Williams talks about her work and sings selections from her new cd "My Better Self" and rock-n-roll writer Chuck Klosterman reads from his new memoir "Killing Myself To Live: Eighty-five Percent of a True Story." Be an audience member: Wednesday, Aug. 10th, at 8 p.m. at HousingWorks Books Café (directions) with authors Walter Mosley and Helen Oyeyemi, and Jamaican musician Abdel Wright.
So What Else is News • Saturdays 3pm-5pm ET
This weekend on the Best of So What Else Is News, hear Marty’s interview with singer/songwriter Ani Difranco, indie hipsters TV On The Radio and filmmaking god Jim Jarmusch.
Ring of Fire • Sat 5pm-7pm ET. Rebroadcast Sun 3pm-5pm
Guests: Matt Taibbi, author of "Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season" on what’s wrong with Democratic politicians and the so-called Washington "press corps; Jane Mayer, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of a recent article, "The Experiment," on the U.S. militaries use of psychological torture at Guantanamo; and Jackie Rion, a top trial lawyer and expert on cover-ups, on the latest developments in the Rove scandal.
The Laura Flanders Show • Saturdays and Sundays 7pm-10pm ET
Saturday: Forty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the fight for US democracy is still going. Laura talks with journalist Mark Crispin Miller and gets an update from the 'Keep the Vote Alive!' march and rally in Atlanta from Linda Burnham of the Women of Color Resource Center.
Then, music to vote by -- from 1965 to 2005. With actor and activist, Harry Belafonte, Freedom Singer, Matt Jones and Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. Hear the tunes of then and now.
Sunday: The nuclear threat-- not Iran's but ours. On the anniversary of the bombing of Japan, Laura talks to Sister Carol Gilbert. Then, Barbara Meade, co-owner of Politics and Prose in Washington DC and Betsey Housten from Bluestockings bookstore in NYC discuss this month's most controvertial books.
The Kyle Jason Show • Saturdays 10pm-Midnight ET
Kyle continues to spread his message of positivity, soul and music.
Ecotalk • Sundays 7-8 am ET
Betsy delivers a preview of the first ever Sierra Summit.
Guests: Lisa Renstrom, the newly inducted 51st president of the Sierra Club; Chad Pegracke discusses how he went from pulling garbage from the Missipippi River ten years ago to creating a model for cleaning up rivers across America; and Sarah Craven, Washington Representative of the UN Population Fund (a dept. defunded by Bush Jr.) on the "population balm."
Mother Jones Radio • Sundays 1pm-2pm ET
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, political cartoonist Mark Fiore, and Laura Penny, the author of "Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullsh*t."
Politically Direct • Sundays 2pm-3pm ET
David welcomes actor/activist Robert Gant , star of the groundbreaking television series "Queer as Folk" and State Senator Sheila Kuehl, the first openly gay member of the California legislature (who, as actress Sheila James, also immortalized the nose-crinkling character of Zelda Gilroy on TV's "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis").
The Laura Flanders Show • Saturdays and Sundays 7pm-10pm ET
Sunday: The nuclear threat-- not Iran's but ours. On the anniversary of the bombing of Japan, Laura talks to Sister Carol Gilbert. Then, Barbara Meade, co-owner of Politics and Prose in Washington DC and Betsey Housten from Bluestockings bookstore in NYC discuss this month's most controvertial books.
The Revolution Starts...Now • Sundays 10pm-11pm ET
Steve chats with actor and musician Jeff Daniels, who recently released an unplugged album to benefit his theater company in Michigan.
On the Real • Sundays 11pm -1 am ET
Chuck D and Giana Garel talk with regular guest comedian Corey "Zooman" Miller and deliver their latest thoughts on the world.
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