Greg Palast, Jim Hightower & Howard Zinn 3-8-12

[progressive forum]

PROGRESSIVE FORUM RADIO SHOW MARCH 8, 2012 AT 7PM ON KPFT 90.1 FM   
 
Our first guest is Greg Palast his latest article is "BP Settlement Sells Out Victims Deal: buries evidence of oil company willful negligence."  His new book is "Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores." Paslst's other books are "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" & "Armed Madhouse."

In the 2ed hour we have a speech by Jim Hightower that he gave at the Houston Peace and Justice Center's 2011 Peacemaker Awards Dinner. He is a  author, radio commentator and syndicated columnist. His latest book is "*Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow"*. He served two terms as Texas agriculture commissioner.
 
We will end with audio from Prof. Howard Zinn speech "A People's History Of The United States, witch is the title of his most famous book. this is a  lecture  by the legendary teacher, historian and activist. Here Zinn explains with great humor and passion how his teaching, his history and his activism are parts of the same project.