The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Coming up on today's show we have Chris Faraone back on the show to give us the latest on his series on militarized evictions in Oregon.

And we have Laird Townsend here to discuss his new study on the crisis in underfunded investigative journalism.

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Coming up on today's show we have Ai-Jen Poo here to discuss her new book, The Age Of Dignity: Preparing For The Elder Boom In A Changing America.

We have Alia Malek here to discuss her Al Jazeera piece on the struggles within a coal mining community in West Virginia.

We also have TMFS comedian Bob Rok here to discuss the new study on New York City's potential six foot sea level rise.

Plus, we'll discuss Jeremy Scahill's new report on how the NSA and GCHQ stole millions of encryption keys to cell phone SIM cards.

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Coming up on today's show we have Mary Bottari back on the show to discuss Scott Walker's latest assault on education, striking truth from the WI budget and his presidential hopes.

We also have Steve Horn back on the show to discuss Rick Perry joining the board of a company that wants to build a pipeline across Iowa, and how another non-KXL tarsands oil pipeline has been quietly approved.

Plus, we'll discuss a new report that shows New York City will most likely have a 6 foot sea level rise by the end of the century and mega-droughts coming to the Southwest and Plains states after 2050.

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Coming up on today's show we have Mychal Denzel Smith back on the show to discuss how the NYPD's Bill Bratton wants to make resisting arrest a felony and his comparison of protesters to terrorists.

We have Amanda Marcotte back on the show to discuss how atheists need to take a hard look at ourselves after the Chapel Hill killings while at the same time defending it from straw man arguments.

Plus, we have TMFS comedian Tim Grimes here to discuss how Texas Congressman Mike Conaway is working to cut SNAP food stamp benefits.

Plus, we'll discuss how Boston is using prison labor to clear its record breaking snow.

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Coming up on today's show we have Robin Marty back on the show to discuss her two days spent with anti-abortion activists at the March For Life rally.

We also have Michelle Chen back on the show to discuss a Florida town that outlawed giving food to the homeless and the fight for mental health care in California.

Plus, we'll discuss attacks on LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws in Kansas and Arkansas, Oklahoma's ban on minimum wage increases, and the attack on unions by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner.

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Coming up on today's show we have Gaius Publius back on the show to discuss using the horrible consequences of NAFTA as a warning of the TPP and how the Clinton Global Initiative supports them both.

We have Zach Silk here to discuss how voters in the state of Washington used ballot initiatives to go around a broken Congress and close gun sale loopholes.

We have TMFS comedian Bob Rok here to discuss the anti-vaccination craze.

Plus, we'll discuss Alabama becoming the 37th state with marriage equality and how a homophobic judge is trying to fight it.

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Coming up on today's 400th episode we have Rick Perlstein back on the show to discuss how mayor Rahm Emanuel is selling off the city of Chicago.

We have Anne Elizabeth Moore back on the show to discuss the money and lies in anti-human trafficking NGOs.

We have TMFS comedian Bob Rok here to discuss a Texas bill that would allow teachers to kill students.

Plus, we'll look back on where the progressive movement stands after 400 episodes of TMFS.

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Coming up on today's show we have Mariame Kaba back on the show to discuss Marissa Alexander's move from prison to house arrest and the fight for reparations for police torture in Chicago.

And we have Alice Ollstein back on the show to discuss her series on the consequences of Louisiana's vanishing coast line.

Plus, we'll discuss NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to terrorists and his plan to give the NYPD machine guns.

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