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July 2, 6-6:30 p.m. showShow was slightly shorter than usual because of fund drive. Issues: Texas Association of Business in trouble again, redistricting Texas, UH names new president and chancellor, activists tell City Council about Nanon Williams: an innocent man on death row, community garden in Houston, San Antonio's plans for a new coal energy plant, nova Chemicals explosion and citizens reactions to finding out benzine was leaked, layoffs in Texas prisons, Texas hate crime bill.
June 27, 6-6:30 p.m. show Show was slightly shorter than usual because of fund drive. Issues: Waller police and beanbags, Houston reacts to Supreme Court's sodomy law ruling, Conroe and renaming a street in honor of Martin Luther King Jr, Pacifica bylaws: interim National Board and Draft B, energy deregulation and slamming and tenants' rights, building standards in The Woodlands, Jim Crow-era art in area courtroom, ACLU holds town meeting on Patriot Act, redistricting Texas, a disruption in Brownsville.
June 25, 6-6:30 p.m. show Show was slightly shorter than usual because of fund drive. Issues: Redistricting hearings in Houston, petroleum and oil: the post-modern demise, affirmative action in Texas universities, Fourth Ward may no longer exist, but it may be remembered in preservation park, groups sue to prevent Bayport container port, FCC and the Hispanic media conglomerate merger, African-American reparations, Some call for Houston police chief Bradford to resign, Pacifica bylaws: KPFK approves Draft B .
June 20, 6-6:30 p.m. show Issues: Juneteenth in Houston, immigrants and deportation, public hearings about redistricting, comptroller rejects state budget - may be sued, energy deregulation and 'slamming' and 'tying', executed Gary Graham remembered, police chief faces heat for crime lab errors, Bush's new flack, sleepy-lawyer death row man gets life, Houston protests concerning France's Mujaheddin arrests.
June 18, 6-6:30 p.m. show Issues: Redistricting Texas, K-Mart raid and lawsuits, Galveston's drug taskforce to try to struggle without funding, DeLay to get a visit from labor 'justice bus', elderly Klansman sentenced in Fort Worth, Texas may execute mentally-retarded man, INS-nabbed journalist Roger Calero speaks about victory, Juneteenth marks emancipation, Freedom ride for immigrant rights.
June 13, 6-6:30 p.m. show Issues: Human smuggling and trafficking, June 13 in history, open meetings in Montgomery County, Houston and clean drinking water, Bayport Nova Chemicals fire, Texas legislature and birth control, Houston's crime lab, Austin smoking ban.
June 11, 6-6:30 p.m. show Issues: Justice along the Texas-Mexico border, Chuck Rosenthal and the Houston crime lab, SBC makes bad boards list, overtime laws may be over-rided by Congress, hit and run accident involving a bycyclist activist, urban removal in Houston.
June 6, 6-6:30 p.m. show In press.
June 4, 6-6:30 p.m. show In press.
May 30, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: May 30 in history, immigrant smuggling tragedy and Mexico-U.S. relations, who owns what media in Houston, Bush's tax cut and small businesses, death penalty and the Texas Legislature, prostitution and the expansion of police powers, PISH fundraiser for UNICEF, students must now say two pledges, Elections in Northern Ireland, Republicans and this legislative session: Allers talks to The Texas Observer.
May 28, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Republicans hide information when confronted with investigative probes when Democrats return from Oklahoma hideout, FCC to vote on media law changes, Dow strike in Freeport, Governor may sign nuclear waste dump bill, protest concerning immigrant rights, two surveillance bills knocked town in Texas legislature, activists pressure ExxonMobil.
May 23, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Textbook censorship, INS excessive force case begins, Texas 'horseslaughter' bill, abortion bills and budget rider, adoption affected by budget crisis, French ambassador visits Houston, Oakland honors Earth First activist Judi Bari, bus tour for immigrants.
May 21, 11-11:30 p.m. show Issues: Abortion waiting period passes Senate, extreme activism and terrorism, Union strikes Dow plant in Freeport, Maxxam and environmental activists, Republican cover-up following Democratic trip to Oklahoma, Houston Crime Lab, INS officers beat illegal immigrant.
May 16, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Mayor Brown's Houston budget, Bike activists and the Alabama bike lane removal, Dell and computers and prison labor 'exploitation', Texas execution, insurance policies for victims of the Holocaust, deer meat and Texas prisons, Democrats walk out on redistricting, Pacifica bylaws and 'Draft B', Texas/Mexico border issues.
May 14, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Democrats walk out to protest redistricting attempt, Frances "Sissy" Farenthold and the Dirty Thirty, Chris Bell on redistricting, Burlington Resources and Ecuador and Peru, Conroe ISD forces two high-level administrative positions to resign, Houston Police Department crime lab, INS officers and excessive force, police officers crack down on wearing seatbelts, Showdown in Texas.
May 9, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: 'Robin Hood' educational funding, prisons affected by state budget crunch, nuclear waste in Texas, long legal rood for Tulia victims, the illegal slaughter of horses, home owner activists lament lege', Republican plans for redistricting, Bhopal activists get word out about Dow Chemical's responsibility, occupation of Palestine, disabled local woman wants access, mock counter-protestors stage pro-war hooplah.
May 7, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: TERP in the Texas legislature, local attorneys may lose power of environmental crime control to state, media providers push for more power, Alabama bike lane is gone, Houston Rockets and stadium contracts, DNA and Texas crime labs, Roger Calero won't be deported, minorities in the energy industry, Women and war conference in San Marcos, Texecution: protesters yell 'moratorium' during Vaughn's execution.
May 2, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Bush's clean air policies, anarchy and May Day, Pricilla Owen a vitim of fillibustering again, Republican redistricting, Enron indictments, drug busts in Texas, racial profiling in Texas, Robin Hood education funding and its likely replacements.
April 30, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: CHIPS program may be gutted by lege', Iranian man's house is rifled through, gays and fostering children, Texas and complying with Supreme Court's ruling about executing mentally impaired defendants, Enron crew gets new indictments, Houston company and labor woes in Nigeria, Halliburton, Showdown in Texas, Bush's 'healthy' forests.
April 25, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: private prisons, Lubbock and its interpretation of privacy laws, gay rights: fostering children, abortions could be tracked easier, ACORN and No Child Left Behind.
April 23, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Borders bothered for buying Boise-Cascade, Earth Day grows, nuclear waste dumping in Texas, Bhopal activists come to Houston's city hall, Texas education loses money, Harris County executions, death penalty reform, Pacifica and diversity in the bylaws.
April 18, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: DynCorp and military contracts, Legislative attack on The Texas State Commission on Human Rights intensifies, cop acquitted in nightclub slaying, Chronicle makes a boo-boo, Iraq occupation, Motiva: the spark for citizen monitoring, American Friends Service Committee closes Houston office, Texas City Wal-Mart becomes site of protests, mercury in fish, save the rivers in Texas, prisoners won't be able to write amongst themselves, Walker and the swift change of voting locations, media criticisms about wartime 'media crimes' and the old 'bait and switch.'
April 16, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Tax resisters go to Austin, DynCorp Iraq police contract, panel discussion at UH: post-war Iraq, Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) may become a reality, Conroe superintendent resigns, residents upset about Spur 527, PETA in Pasadena, tort reform, Coca-Cola pressured by global activists.
April 11, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Alcoa settles pollution lawsuit, illegal immigrant beaten by violent Ranch Rescue militia, student journalists participate in death row Innocence project, prominent Republicans join dissent against FCC, disabled activists sit-in at governor's office, HISD dropout rate, Enron in India, pollution bill would strip powers from local district attorneys, media criticism about media myths.
April 9, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: HPD crime lab, Texas Emissions Reduction Plan and clean air, Enron and public documents, Halliburton contracts, Operation Liberty Shield and foreign nationals, non-citizen driver licenses, polluters near schools, prayer in public schools, education: TAAS scores released, federal 'anti-terror' aid and Houston, waste hauler industry could be forced to mind laws, Protestors disturb James Baker event at Rice, abortion and the Texas legislature, Media criticism about objectivity and Shakespeare.
April 4, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Texas lege' bills could limit civillian monitoring of air, activist goes to jail for School of the Americas protest, Sheila Jackson Lee talks with KPFT News, aviation college union busts, columnist silenced after attending anti-war protest, a new progressive face of Islam, Montgommery County reacts to war, Cuba 5 still detained.
April 2, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Police chase ends with shooting, Tulia drug busts, Mexico and the FBI, terrorism and the death penalty, new source review and pollution, affirmative action in Texas, IOLTA, Texas AIDS program, media criticism about the Iraq invasion.
March 28, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Palestinian family deported, Texas-Mexico border deaths, Iraqi-American interrogations, resident displacement in Kashmere Gardens, smallpox vaccine kills native American, private prisons & death penalty issues in state legislature, Maxxam, Jones Road Clean Water Coalition, Arab-American sentiments about war.
March 26, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: March 21 show was pre-empted to bring listeners Pacifica coverage of Gulf War II. Enron in court, City Council discusses budget, third loop in Houston, Prado may be accepted as high judge, affirmative action rally, students support Tibet with banner, HIV activists in Austin, Rigoberta Menchu in Houston, war begins and Houston parties, Colburn executed with live call-in report.
March 19, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Terror Alert Orange, Houston's emergency response, INS registrations, groups call for Bush's impeachment, Halliburton protest, Montgomery county's opinions about war, Clarification: Clear Channel's "Rally for America", Kashmere residents and displacement for flood plan, Tulia's drug busts, Texas Observer & KPFT News: legislature review, Jim Hightower on war.
March 14, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Gandhi, draft driving, pro-war resolution, Halliburton, HPD crime lab, prison population, racial profiling, INS-nabbed journalist's court date, Katy Corridor Coalition claims it was shut out of decision-making process.
March 12, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Katy Corridor Coalition receives award, Greenpeace in Houston, Napal, Independent radio meeting , Code Pink, Texas Legislature Review, Michael Berry for mayor, Police brutality in Willis, Texas execution, Texas execution is thwarted!
March 7, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Katy activists win prize, community college professor denounces Iraq war, Poetry, Pacifica bylaws, Morales, Houston Planned Parenthood attacked, unborn children, hacker attacks UT, Texas executes 300, Women and Title 9, criticism of Chronicle's coverage of two rallies.
March 5, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: School vouchers, Pacifica bylaws, environmental lobby day, Clear Channel's 'Rally for America', Brown & Root to profit from Iraq war, Enron's toll on former employees.
February 28, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Morales extorts for his brother's election campaigns, death row stay granted, racial insensitivity in public schools, events around town, Department of Homeland Security, street musicians, Texas Observer & KPFT News: legislature review.
February 26, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: malpractice and abortion, FBI makes a mistake, City Council and the budget, City Council anti-war resolution, Olvera, HISD magnet schools, School Board of Education, free lunch programs for poor children, Hutchinson's attempt to save veteran, death penalty, prison roles.
February 21, 6:30-7 p.m. show Show was shorter than usual because of Winter Fund Drive Issues: indigent defense in Texas, INS and mandatory registrations, activist climber's "suicide", American Friends Service Committee fires beloved activist, Texas Observer & KPFT News: legislature review.
February 19, 6:30-7 p.m. show Show was shorter than usual because of Winter Fund Drive Issues: smallpox vaccination, colleges and budget shortfall, secret 'Patriot Act II' documents leaked, anti-NAFTA resolutions passed in Texas city councils, anti-war resolution debated in Houston city council, activists arrested in banner-drop, media criticism of KPFT's lack of Feb. 15 coverage.
February 14, 6:30-7 p.m. show Show was shorter than usual because of Winter Fund Drive Issues: Anti-war lawsuit, 'Robin Hood' school finance plan, KKK and Rev. Al Sharpton, animal rights activism and terrorism, Texas Observer & KPFT News: Bad bills, media criticism about history and wartime rhetoric.
February 12, 6:30-7 p.m. show Show was shorter than usual because of Winter Fund Drive Issues: ConnocoPhillips anti-discrimination policy and homosexuals, recording the jury in death penalty cases, re-gentrification, Perry's State of the State address, homeowners face new woes in lege'
February 7, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Local Feb. 15 protests, Federal Alert System, Jackson Lee and Progressive Caucus, Texas execution, crime lab probed, slavery reparations, Bush's judges confirmation hopes, ConnocoPhillips anti-discrimination policy and homosexuals, highway 59 spur, Craddick and hispanics, media criticism of Space Shuttle Columbia coverage.
February 5, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Powell's United Nations speech, Texas execution of foreign national, World Court vs. U.S. executions, Texas lege' bill about castration, Maxxam, military experiments on personnel, Robert Fisk in Austin.
January 31, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Race distribution at Klein School District, EPA and local wetlands, journalist vs. INS, economy worsens, symphony strike, Continental Airlines seeks handout, Houston oil firefighters, U.S. war lies, clarification: People for the American Way.
January 29, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Blix's United Nations report, Bush's State of the Union, cost of war to Houston, Defense of Marriage Act back in Texas Lege', homeless vs. Sheila Jackson Lee, clean air spotlight: Diesel, Dynegy similar to Enron, Pakistanis head for Canadian hills, Texas executions.
January 24, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: History of abortion rights, affirmative action and Supreme Court, Operation Game Day during Super Bowl, death penalty bills in Texas legislature, Mexican trucks at issue in NAFTA dispute, Section 8 housing, gay student sues Klein high school, Iranian film maker in town, Media criticism about Channel 2 and Sunday's sports.
January 22, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Anti-war resolution presented to City Council, former police chief goes on trial, reparations in Galveston, World Education Forum, Texas program helps young poor fathers, Roe vs. Wade and abortion, Standing Deer remembered.
January 17, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: HUD's faulty accounting, Texas AIDS program, Judge Owen and abortions, Workers' Independent News Service, college affirmative action, Gates speaks, local reactions to proposed FCC changes.
January 15, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Death penalty, Workers' Independent News Service, labor unions, Texas budget shortfall, Texas prisoners, Texas clean air plan, local music scene, Martin Luther King, Jr. and peaceful persuasion .
January 10, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Mandatory INS registration, INS detains Houston residents, Owen & Pickering are back, Workers' Independent News Service, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) & bio-terrorism, women in prison.
January 8, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Bush's economic plan, governors react to Bush's economic plan, troop mobilization, gays against war, group fasts for peace, INS registrations, native Americans, Kid-Care, charities experience hardships, Pacifica bylaws.
January 3, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Bush's administration and open records, certain immigrants must register with INS, Workers' Independent News Service, K-Mart raids and private attorneys, Office of Homeland Security and open records, Palestine report, Bush visits Fort Hood, military mobilizations underway across the state, Mexico television station CNI hijacked, a new face of martyrdom, Bush expected to re-nominate Owens, Harris County probation, abuse against women.
January 1, 6:30-7 p.m. show This was our first Wednesday broadcast Issues: Halliburton and Brown and Root to profit from war, Workers' Independent News Service, local INS detention centers, free trade and chicken, 2002: meat recalls, Wal-Mart and groceries, 2002: Texas executions, Quakers against war.
December 27, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: As Republicans surge Texas House Craddick may become speaker, police brutality, Fourth Ward Development, Federal petroleum reserves, North Korea possible conflict, Palestine report, Kwanza, victim's son raps against death penalty and media criticism concerning Clear Channel, Pacifica and proposed FCC media ownership changes.
December 20, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Fourth Ward Development, Lott steps down, texas execution, El Paso and death penalty moratorium, Texas sodomy law goes to Supreme Court, prison guard shortage during wartime, ROTC's role in schools, Palestine report,
December 13, 6:30-7 p.m. show Show was shorter because of production mistakes. Issues: Police misconduct examined, journalist detained by INS, habeus corpus in Texas.
December 6, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Anniversary of 13th Amendment, Imperial Sugar plant closing, Palestine report, activists in Georgia, 20th anniversary of Texas' lethal injection, censorship in Montgomery County, HIV/AIDS, Texas Defender Service and Habeus Corpus, home insurance, media criticism on Chronicle's coverage of El Paso Electric.
November 29, 6:30-7 p.m. show This show is a compilation of previous stories and media criticisms. Issues: Media criticism of KTRH 740 AM's morning news, Third Ward displacement, homeless increases, union issues at Rocket's new stadium, Port Arthur residents complain about air quality, media criticism about media fixation, Fourth Ward is vanishing.
November 22, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Fourth ward urban renewal and HISD, New INS rules for students, Iraqi-Americans in the news, energy deregulation, Sanchez vs. Perry mudslinging in Governor race, Texas executions, youth smoking prevention, media criticism on KPRC Channel 2's 'Nightbeat' 10 p.m. broadcast.
November 15, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: School of Americas, toll lanes on Katy Freeway expansion, Texas prison museum, Texas activism, immigration, native americans and women, Wal-Mart as a union-buster, speed limits change in revised clean air plan, media criticism on women's role in the Chronicle's sports pages.
November 8, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Rice football coach's anti-gay remarks, possible election problems?, electing judges in Texas, death row conditions, Arab deportation, Campus Watch Web site, Texas budget and HIV patients.
November 1, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Heated Senate race, the role of third parties in Texas, Rice football coach's anti-gay remarks, UH students set legal precedent for peace, Houston Cop Watch, media criticism on voter guides, media criticism on coverage of the WTO.
October 25, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Death of Senator Wellstone, police chief Bradford investigated, All Soul's Day, Westheimer Street Festival, Dynegy lays off 600 workers, Falun Gong, media criticisms about WTO and genetically modified food.
October 18, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Water contamination in Northwest Houston, Metro rail and Halo museum district, Substandard housing, high school drug testing, ???, Media criticism of Chronicle's coverage of money in Governor's race.
October 11, 6:30-7 p.m. showShow was shorter because of Fall Fund Drive Issues: Congress on Iraq, Bush on Iraq, Governor's debate, Central American activists, HMO-Medicare.
October 4, 6:30-7 p.m. showShow was shorter because of Fall Fund Drive Issues: KPFT fund drives, Muslim-American relief organizations, mentally ill: Texas prisons.
September 27, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Pre-emptive activist arrests, Homeland Security and the Freedom of Information Act, energy deregulation, lawsuit reform, 'sunsetting' the lawyers' state bar of Texas, media criticism of the Chronicle's coverage of Germany's elections.
September 20, 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Bush fundraising for Cornyn, Katy Freeway expansion, deportation of Palestinian family, Congress and Iraq war, bike lanes, urban removal in Fourth Ward, Buffalo Bayou redevelopment, standardized tests, neighborhood safety programs.
September 13 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Illegal immigrants working in U.S. airports, K-Mart raid's aftershocks, U.S. sponsored-terrorism, immigration and homeland security department, drug convictions and student financial aid, deportations, Sept. 11 commemorations, media criticism of the shark and child abductions coverage trends.
September 6 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Minority enrollment in flight schools, INS in the Homeland Security agency, Welfare and its reform in Texas, Historical preservation, UH's Innocence Network: court systems, City-wide September 11 commemorations, media criticism of the Chronicle's use of the word "evil."
August 30 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: U.S. war dissent, war on terrorism, Enron, Pedro Oregon and police brutality, Anti-smoking ordinances, K-Mart police raid, peer-mediation in education, African-American Studies departments in Houston, Houston's convention city economy, media criticism of how the chronicle's coverage of juvenile executions.
August 23 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Texas death row, standardized tests, Sterling Chemical's labor disputes, same-sex immigration rights, homeless, media criticism of television web sites.
August 15 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: West Nile Virus and the environment, labor violations and new arena, Bush's homeland security, nuclear cleanups, Texas death penalty and international relations, Dow Chemical's Texas and Bhopal record, City Park renovations, media criticism of New York's Newsday and Houston Chronicle , media criticism of how Iraqis are portrayed in Houston.
August 8 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Texas death penalty, city-sponsored vaccinations, Texas sodomy law, education, Hispanics and police brutality, Port Arthur's air quality and health, medicinal marijuana, media criticism on how the mainstream media portrays black protestors.
August 1 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues:Women's shelters, TIPS program, Texas' congressional record, unions and labor, air quality, Texas death penalty and international relations, media criticism of ABC Channel 13 Eyewitness News.
July 25 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: Judiciary nominations, protest arrests, Texas' air quality, homeless, labor safety issues, Enron accountability, media criticism of KTRH 740 AM.
July 18 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: labor lockouts, Israel boycotts, low-income displacement, immigration, animal rights, drug war, media criticism of KPRC Channel 2.
July 11 6:30-7 p.m. show Issues: History of KPFT News, U.S. imperialism, HUD housing, Metro and emissions, music piracy, NAACP, media criticism of Houston Chronicle. .

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