Today on WNYC they had several great interviews you should definitely hear.
First up on The Brian Lehrer Show was How to Build a Protest Movement. Chrystia Freeland, global editor-at-large of Thomson Reuters, and Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and author of several books discuss the protests going on over on Wall Street. In addition, they discuss past protest movements, how to create one and much more. Also hear what some of the protesters taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement have to say.
Also on The Brian Lehrer Show, Constitutional Un-Convention. Christopher Phillips, scholar, pro-democracy activist, founder of the Constitution Cafe Dialogue Movement and author of Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution, talks about traveling across America and asking people How would you rewrite the Constitution? There are some pretty enlightening comments made, and some not so enlightening ones. Like did you know Thomas Jefferson said that the Constitution should be rewritten every twenty years?
On The Leonard Lopate Show, there was Brandwashed. Martin Lindstrom talks about his book Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy. Learn about some of the psychology behind marketing that influences even those that think that they cannot be influenced.
And lastly, Underreported: The Lives of Migrant Farm Workers. The food we buy everyday is picked by migrant workers. We don't think about them, but we are so dependent on them.
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