He has been the governor of Tokyo since 1999, and successfully made many enemies with his opinions and policies. Shintaro Ishihara takes a lead role in his city, changing politics, society, and culture… but it may not be in the direction you expect. In another edition of the global series on mayors, Arudou Debito joins me to help explain the person and the policies behind Ishihara.
Correction from Debito, in case anyone is fact checking: I said the Takeshima/Tokdo islands were between China and Korea. They are in fact between Japan and Korea.
Shintaro Ishihara on Wikipedia
Debito.org
Everywhere you turn in the world of media it seems like the only election is that of the US congress next week. Yet big decisions are being made in different corners of the world, on every continent actually. This program is a brief run down of who and what is on the agenda in different elections worldwide right now. Naturally my opinion is mixed in there.. but so are the cold hard facts.
Wikipedia has a good Electoral Calendar
It has been 4 years since the sudden death of one of the most progressive and passionate voices the US congress has ever known. In this program, with help from guests from Carleton College, the school where Wellstone taught, we talk about who he was, what he stood for, and what can be learned from him.
John Schott, blogger & professor of new media, Carleton College
Karina Hill, videoblogger & grad assistant at Carleton College
Wellstone Action
Free Masons probably meet somewhere near where you live. Many think they know all the secrets and conspiracies related to the Masonry. Yet what do you really know about them? Just what does such an ancient club, scattered in so many countries, do anymore? My guest, blogger and freemason Greg Stewart joins me to explore this topic.
Progressive, green, defender of minority rights, critical of the bush administration, none of these things are usually associated with the state of Utah. But the city of Salt Lake marches to the beat of a very unique and active drum. My friend Catherine joins me at my beloved soup stand here in Amsterdam, to discuss the mayor Rocky and the priorities of his government.
Rocky Anderson’s Wikipedia Entry
You may have seen images of angry citizens clashing with police on the streets of Budapest recently. But did you hear the real story of what happened and why the Hungarian electorate rose up? And what will happen from here, how will people, in the long run, feel towards a goverment that admitedly lied to them? A familiar theme in Eastern Europe and North America, Henrik of the blog Hungarian Accent helps explain was has happened and what can be learned from this.
Heres a Guardian article for further illustration