Episode: Resist War Now

As Year Five of the War on Terror begins, resistance is rising. In this episode, Dahr Jamail takes you to the streets of Baghdad for an exclusive look at what the Death Squads are doing to citizens. Meet the GI Resistance movement: Ehren Watada refuses to serve, and many active-duty soldiers and marines are signing the Appeal for Redress. Highlights from January's March with Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda. Plus, anti-war music from Anti-Flag. STOP THIS WAR NOW!

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Episode: Private Prisons: Commerce in Souls

Corruption and collusion are nothing new for private prisons, but back-room boosts from the Department of Homeland Security, are raising the stakes. SourceCode looks inside the private prison boom, and at the growing opposition to this state-administered slavery. In These Times reporter Silja Talvi talks with The Sentencing Project, and Grassroots Leadership shares their success story in Memphis. Plus, a multi-media community arts project where former inmates create moving images while they tell their stories.

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Episode: Immigration Emergency?

Are you going to sit by drinking latte while your government begins rounding up the 12 million? 30 Billion in 2006 is being spent, regardless of any new immigration bill. And no surprise, it's being forked over in large part to Halliburton's KBR for "immigration emergency" plans now being executed to detect, detain and deport any immigrant without papers, and anyone who helps them. Don't want a prison camp in your backyard? Speak up now. This episode: SourceCode investigative reporter Joe Richey on the Department of Homeland Security's ongoing build-up of detention and removal camps. What's an immigration emergency and who's calling for one? Update on No More Death's Shanti and Daniel - awaiting trial for providing humanitarian aid to border crossers. New America Media's Daffodil Alton reports on student protest in LA. Wake up folks, they're legislating an enforced intolerance and bigotry into your country. Don't let them do it.

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Episode: New Orleans: Civil Rights from Ruin

They’re not refugees, the more 300,000 people of New Orleans who were driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina, and prevented from returning by their city, state and federal governments. They are citizens, and their civil and human rights have been trampled by an unjust system that is becoming LESS just with each passing day. The people of New Orleans are now threatened with losing their VOTES, and they are responding with community involvement that’s spilling out from courtrooms and into the streets, the same streets that volunteers are trying to rebuild.

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Episode: Sustainability and Alternatives

While we usually hear about environmental problems and the difficulty of finding soluions, SourceCode takes a look at some sustainable alternatives. We'll show you the largest urban garden in America in South Central LA, and their struggle to keep their farm alive. Then, come to San Francisco, where the city government has decided to implement the precautionary principle in their decison making. And across the Bay Bridge, see how the collaboration of national, regional, and grassroots organizations is creating a new model for urban solutions. And we'll show you an excerpt from Brian Dystra's new play Clean Alternatives.

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Episode: Capitalism vs Environment

Is an environmentally sustainable economy, possible? Hear from Hunter Lovins on “natural capitalism”….an economy that attempts to take everything of value into account, including human resources and living systems. Then, what would you do if a toxic factory set up shop in your backyard? One group of local activists is taking on the multinational company CEMEX. Artist Roxy Paine and critic John Yao present an installation piece addressing industry’s devastating impact on land And first, an exclusive report from the recent World Social Forum in Venezuela where indigenous people are fighting international coal companies, and where Chavez is promising to shift the oil wealth to the people…..

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Episode: First Nation rights

Most Americans know the story of the Trail of Tears; settlers in the New World felt they had more right to the land than the people who were in fact here first. It seems that this attitude has not quite vanished when it comes to Native American land and resources. SourceCode visits the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah where nuclear waste dumping has caused one Goshute member to stand up for preservation of their land. Meet a hero for the cause of Indian land rights, Eloise Cobell. She's suing the federal government for billions of dollars on behalf of individual Indians across the country. We'll take you to Northern Ontario were the Grassy Narrows First Nation is waging an international battle to get logging giants Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi off their lands. And come with Diné music group Blackfire on their tour around the world.

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Episode: Environmental Cost of War

While the death and destruction caused by war is reason enough to examine our current state of militarism, SourceCode investigates longterm costs of war's damage to the environment. Weapons of Mass Destruction in Washington DC? Chemical weapons from World War One were buried in the Spring Valley neighborhood in our nation's capital. Army Corp of Engineer whistleblowers tour us around the most toxic of the sites. Then, Truthout's Chris Hume talks with Azzam Alwash about the destruction and revitalization of the Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq, the birthplace of civilization. (And thurston Moore of Sonic Youth sings "they're bombing the garden of eden"). SourceCode looks at "depleted" uranium and the alarming claims of soldiers and Iraqis who have been exposed to it. And we'll join the Alterazioni Video Collective in New York to hear more about their Baghdad Space Sharing project, designed to connect people around the world to the struggles Iraqi civilians are facing. OUT NOW.

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Episode: State of the Oceans

SourceCode collaborates with Mother Jones Magazine for a special episode on the State of the Oceans. Join Mike Robbins for a look at how the fishing industry, which regulates itself, is destroying the fisheries and endangering our food supply. Dr. Pauly on the need to protect the ocean, with a park system. And Paul Watson flies the Jolly Roger as he rams Japanese whalers and takes on seal hunters in an effort to save the ocean's wildlife. Plus, a gripping video from Britain's Environmental Justice Foundation, from a coastal village in Africa terrorized by illegal fishing corporations.

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Episode: Enemies of the Environment

Three pro-enterprise men - a politician, a crooked businessman, and a radical right-winger, are waging the most damaging war against the environment in US history. Meet the writer of the worst anti-environmental legislation Richard Pombo; and Charles Hurwitz, who is trying to make a quick buck on the last of the ancient redwoods, and who used profits from the S & L scandal to buy up the trees; and Ron Arnold, father of the Wise Use movement, who thinks that property is a civil right. SourceCode partners with www.truthout.org on the Pombo story - visit their site and read Kelpie Wilson's in-depth coverage!

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Episode: Eco Dissent/Not Terrorism

In George Bush's America, if you're an environmentalist, you're a terrorist. SourceCode examines civil disobedience under the Patriot Act. Come to Prescott, Arizona, where a recent sting resulted in the death of one person accused under the new definition of terrorism. Hear from a former Earthfirst!er on why she took direct action against a power company. ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights tell you what risks you face in defending the environment. Ruckus Society makes a case for nonviolent civil disobedience. And a video of the first monkeywrenching action with Edward Abbey at the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Episode: Climate Change: Forget the Feds

What do you do when the top level leaders in your Country refuse to comply with international agreements about global warming? You make them irrelevant and work locally. This episode, meet the Mayors, who are making sure their cities meet or beat Kyoto greenhouse gas emmission reductions. Hear from Daphne Wysham about the hidden victims of carbon trading (which we just found out is managed by the World Bank. go figure). Find out what the international youth movement is doing about climate change. And travel to the Arctic with the Cape Farewell artists and scientists.

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Episode: Rights/Exception - sc205

Since 9/11 the bush administration has created a State of Exception, where the Constition and human rights are being suspended "in order to save them". Jim Hightower, Richard Grossman - activist and author, Rachel Meerapol from the Center for Constitional Rights talk about rights; meet John Graham who found himself on a terrorist list; the Ella Baker Center; Bernie Sanders.

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Episode: Election Fraud: sc210

How many rigged elections will we stand for? SourceCode brings you the latest information from Ohio and New Mexico, where whistleblowers from inside the election business are hoping to win lawsuits....to guarantee a verifiable and fair election process in 06. Don't miss Sherole Eaton's story - she saw the official from Triad dismantle a computerized voting machine before the results were counted. And software designer Clint Curtis took a polygraph to back up his story that he was asked to write code to steal elections without a trace. Blogger Brad Friedman interviews him. Blackfire rocks out to get Native People voting, and BuzzFlash has (great) commentary.

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Episode: Proxy War - sc209

When war-fighters are company men, can the government win a war? Bunnatine Greenhouse blows the whistle on Army Contracting procedures; Pratap Chaterjee on corporate abuse of international workers in this war; Halliburon Watch tells what you can do; Andrea Gibson performs a piece on a different proxy war.

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Episode: Justice for Whom?: sc208

Justice for Sale: when private interest groups pressure judges to rule according to popular sentiment, by hiding behind controversial subjects like abortion, Americans can't get their day in court. Come to Tennessee where judges are refusing to hear unpopular parental notification cases, and turning teens away.

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Episode: Community/The Stranger: sc207

SourceCode looks at America's shifting demographics - how the institutionalized threat of terrorism combined with an uncertain economy has created a climate hostile to immmigrants. The advent of the REAL ID Act, increasing restrictions on legal immigration, growing small-town xenophobia, and renegade self-appointed border patrols are, however, matched by grass-roots groups assisting immigrants, even at great personal risk. We'll take you undercover with the Minutemen, as well as on a rescue mission with No More Deaths.

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Episode: New Orleans/Sacrificial Zone: sc206

Accusations of racism and classism in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina demand we open these issues to public debate. Join Amiri Baraka, Damu Smith, Dr. Beverly Wright, Malik Rahim, Food Not Bombs, and many survivors.

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Episode: Greed/Water - sc204

Big business is turning off the tap....the global corporate/government effort to privatize water is causing suffering and violence around the world. Join Vandana Shiva, Tony Clarke, Maude Barlow, and activist group Public Citizen as they report from India, Bolivia, Canada....and neighborhoods like yours.

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Episode: Packaging/Truth: sc203

Are we going to let them define reality for us? SourceCode looks at reality construction: John Nichols from the Nation interviews Russ Feingold, Tom Hayden and Robert Greenwald; Jerry Landay brings you the right's strategy to take over media, higher ed, and social consciousness in the Powell Memo; Activist group Free Press on the struggle to keep the Internet public - and what you can do; and inside the Howl Festival on the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's revolutionary poem.

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Episode: War/Live: sc202

Intelligence Insiders tell about the Chronology of Deceit that got us into the War on Terror. Never before seen footage from the battle of Falluja. Dahr Jamail and Camilo Mejia on resistance. Vets for Peace. Code Pink. Cindy Sheehan.

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Episode: Work/Organize: sc201

SourceCode looks at Labor conditions worldwide and at home, from Bangalore to Imokalee Florida.

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Episode: Jobs & the Economy

A multi-faceted look at our economy and the complex economic, social, and political issues that shape it. From the plight of the average worker who faces the multiple threats of outsourcing, job destabilization, and labor rights erosion to the vast effects 9/11, corporate war profits and Bush administration polices have had. Features an interview with “No Logo” author, Naomi Klein and a discussion with Kevin Danaher of Global exchange. Play video :: Download video

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Episode: Manufacturing Dissent

From this year’s RNC in New York: A look at the stifling of free speech and anticipated repercussions, with an interview with Noam Chomsky covering the perceived differences between the political parties. Also included is a report by the League of Independent Voters designed to drive voter turn out. Play video :: Download video

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Episode: Democratic Commotion

From this year’s DNC in Boston: A look at the exclusion of progressive activism from the convention with an interview with Pratap Chatterjee of Corpwatch, highlighting how corporations are influencing democracy, the election and policy. Also included is a report by DC Underground on the criminalization of dissent.

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