The Monitor - coming up - Marjorie Cohn, Ellie Smeal on Alito

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January 15, 2006: The Monitor




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<> 6:20 pm CST -- MARJORIE COHN on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court



Professor Cohn returns to The Monitor to discuss the nomination of Samuel Alito to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court.

Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists. She is also a contributing editor to Truthout.org.


<> 6:35 pm CST -- ELLIE SMEAL on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court




Ellie Smeal is president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Feminist Majority and the National Organization for Women and the National Congress of Black Women, are coordinating Freedom Winter '06, part of a joint national campaign to block the confirmation of Samuel Alito because of the serious threat they feel he poses to the future of women's rights and civil rights.

For over two decades, Ellie has played a leading role in both national and state campaigns for women's equality. She has fought for passage of landmark legislation such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Equal Credit Act, Civil Rights Restoration Act, Violence Against Women Act, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and Civil Rights Act of 1991. She has pushed to make Social Security and pensions more equitable for women, and to realign federal priorities by developing a feminist budget. She has campaigned to close the wage gap and to achieve pay equity for the vast majority of women who are segregated in low-paying jobs.

As president of the National Organization for Women, she fought for the ERA. She led the first national abortion rights march in 1986, drawing more than 100,000 participants to Washington, D.C. In December 2001, Ellie Smeal, Gloria Steinem, and Ms. Magazine joined forces and Feminist Majority Foundation became the sole publisher of Ms. magazine.

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January 8
-- RAY McGOVERN , former 27-year NSA veteran and a founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
-- BILL GOODMAN, legal director of the Center for Constititional Rights
THEY DISCUSSED NSA SPYING ON US CITIZENS and the BUSH SECRET SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM THAT WENT OUTSIDE THE LAW.

January 1
-- MARK CRISPIN MILLER re how we got elections we can't trust
-- DAVE BERMAN re grass roots activism to get elections we trust

December 25 (previous segments, rebroadcast)
-- JULES ARCHER archival interviews, re the attempted coup against FDR in 1934
-- DAVID RAY GRIFFIN re questions about September 11

December 18
-- Former Diplomat ANN WRIGHT re peace efforts
-- MARC ROTENBERG on privacy and government surveillance

December 11
-- SAMIR KHADER re Al Jazeera
-- BRAD FRIEDMAN re election transparency fights around the country

December 4
-- LOU DUBOSE on Abramoff scandal
-- KRISTINA BORJESSON re media, especially relating to ramping up the Iraq War

November 27
-- KRISTINA BORJESSON re media, especially relating to ramping up the Iraq War
-- BOB FITRAKIS delves into the oddities of the latest Ohio election

November 20
-- JOHN DEAN re A WHITE HOUSE ON THE DEFENSIVE, and the CIA Leak
-- DAVE ZAREMBKA re healing after genocide