Monday, August 17th, 2009
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An exclusive interview with Army Sergeant Travis Bishop, the highest enlisted officer to resist deployment to Afghanistan, we’ll hear the voice of the Sergeant before he was locked away in the brig and we speak to Dahr Jamail about the significance of the expanding GI resistance movement; also, 24 dead and over 120 wounded in bloody internal clashes in Gaza between Hamas security forces and radical elements of a pro-Sharia Islamic cult, we’ll talk to al-Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza City; plus, Code Pink faces off again with pro-torture advocate John Yoo as he returned to shape the future of young law students at Boalt Law School in Berkeley, we’ll also speak with the President of the National Lawyer’s Guild about its actions to hold Yoo accountable for his justification of the Bush administration’s torture policy; and the Knight Report.
Guests:
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent and author, The Will To Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse To Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
Sgt. Travis Bishop, Military resister
Ayman Mohyeldin, al-Jazeera English correspondent in Gaza City
Cynthia Papermaster, Code Pink
Marjorie Cohn, President of National Lawyer’s Guild and Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, author of soon-to-be-released “United States of Torture: America’s Past and PresentPolicy of Interrogation and Abuse”