Dec 30, 2012
TEASE: Challenges in the second term … the early years of Thurgood
Marshall … and the Republican states’ rights fetish.
Progressive icon Fred Harris talks about challenges facing the
second Obama Administration, including barriers to organized labor
… law professor Larry Gibson tells us about his new biography of a
young Thurgood Marshall … and historian Steve Conn rips Republicans
for hating government, except for when they need it.
Fred Harris
Fred Harris was a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, and a candidate for president. Still
active, Fred tells us what he sees as challenges for the second
Obama Adminstration … labor rights, the minimum wage, civil rights
and immigration reform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_R._Harris
Larry Gibson
Larry Gibson is a prominent attorney and law professor in
Baltimore. He has a new book out called “Young Thurgood,” which
delves into the early years of Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s
first African American Supreme Court justice.
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty.html?facultynum=049
Steven Conn
Steven Conn is a historian and author of a book examining the
benefits of government. He talks with us today about the fetish
Republicans have about “states rights” – the rallying cry for
slavery, attacking reproductive freedom and suppressing voting
rights. Professor Conn says Republicans are laissez-faire when it
suits them but in favor of government help with they need
it.
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/members/memberview.cfm?memberid=11