The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Coming up on today's show we have the President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, back on the show to discuss Rahm Emanuel “turning around” 3 more public schools, his horrific pension bill, and how charter schools lack accountability to the community.

We also have Tim Karr from FreePress back on the show to discuss how the proposed FCC rule change would kill Net Neutrality and the open internet as we know it.

We'll also discuss how Barack Obama may go down as the president who killed the free and open internet.

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Coming up on today's show we have Jessica Luther back on the show to discuss the horrific handling of the Jameis Winston sexual assault investigation and how rape culture extends into sports and nerd culture.

We also have Andy Kroll from Mother Jones Magazine back on the show to discuss how big oil clings to massive government giveaways.

We'll also discuss how anti-police violence activists took over the #MyNYPD hashtag.

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Coming up on today's show we have Hannah Rappleye on the show to discuss how a town in Alabama has turned poverty into a prison sentence.

We also have Kevin Gosztola back on the show to discuss the latest attacks on whistle blower Edward Snowden and James Clapper's university pity tour.

We'll also discuss the four year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the gulf, how the area has not recovered, and how the Obama administration has broken it's promise to improve the safety of the blowout preventers.

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Coming up on today's show we have Betsy Leondar-Wright on the show to discuss her new book, Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups By Seeing Class Cultures.

We also have Greta Christina back on the show to discuss her new book, Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How To Help Each Other, And Why.

We'll also discuss a new report on how renters are being priced out of cities and that over half of renters are paying more than 30% of their income on housing.

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Coming up on today's show we have the former executive director of the ACLU of Maine Shenna Bellows here to discuss civil liberties, the environment, ending corporate tax loopholes, and her campaign for Senate against Susan Collins in Maine.

We also have journalist David Dayen back on the show to discuss the next potential financial crash, as well as Wall Street's subsidy safety net.

We'll also discuss how the NSA knew about and left Americans exposed to the dangerous Heartbleed bug.

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Coming up on today's show we have Rebecca Burns from In These Times back on the show to discuss the dangers of Wall Street equity firms like Blackstone taking over the housing rental market.

We also have Elliot Fineman from the National Gun Victims Council here to discuss the need for sane gun laws.

We'll also discuss how a retiring SEC official slammed his department for failing to go after Wall Street for the 2008 crash and how a judge dismissed a lawsuit over the Obama Administration's assassination of American citizens.

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Coming up on today's show we have Dahlia Lithwick from Slate back on the show to discuss the Supreme Court's horrific McCutcheon ruling, as well as the potential implications of Hobby Lobby contraception case.

We also have the Republic Report's David Halperin on the show to discuss his new book, Stealing America's Future: How For Profit Colleges Scam Taxpayers And Ruin Students' Lives.

We'll also discuss the underreported BP oil spill in Lake Michigan, and how more dangerous tar sands oil is headed there.

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The show is off this week and as such, we are running The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show with some of our favorite interviews, rants, and sketches.

We have Mary Jo Pehl from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Cinematic Titanic here to discuss the 25th anniversary of MST3K and her new project, Awesome Music For Awful Movies.

We'll also discuss why the left should be freaking out over a DC court ending Net Neutrality.

Also TMFS writer-performer Tim Grimes gives us his take on the Arizona anti-gay law.

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On today's Best Of Show, we have Rodstarz from the hip hop group Rebel Diaz back on the show to discuss their new album, Radical Dilemma.

We also have Emily Atkin and Katie Valentine from Climate Progress here to discuss how poverty helped make the West Virginia chemical spill and other coal pollution possible.

We'll also discuss how the State Department's Keystone XL Pipeline environmental impact report is a sham.

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Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes, Sticher and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.  You can watch live video on our YouTube channel.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS. You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

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