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The Monitor
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November 26, 2006


Today's Guests:

-- Author Michele Wucker on immigration
-- Journalist Jonathan Landay on Cheney, Iraq and other news


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<>   6:00 pm  CST -- Headlines

<>  ~ 6:10 pm  CST --  Michele Wucker on immigration



Michele Wucker joins The Monitor's co-host Pokey Anderson, in an interview recorded during her recent visit to Houston. She delves into the complex issues of immigration.

Michele is co-director of the Immigrant Voting Project and director of the Program on Citizenship & Security. She is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City.

She specializes in immigration and assimilation, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean, and international finance and debt crisis

She is the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right, published by Public Affairs press in May 2006, and of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola.

Michele lectures frequently at leading universities and policy on the subjects of immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Latin American politics. She has written for many U.S. and Latin American publications including The American Prospect, Newsday, The New York Daily News, The New York Times Book Review, Tikkun, The Washington Post, and others.

Born in 1969 in Kansas City (Missouri), Michele grew up in Texas and Wisconsin and now lives in New York City. Michele holds a degree in French and policy studies from Rice University in Houston and a Master of International Affairs and Certificate in Latin American Studies at Columbia University's School of International Affairs.

BOOK:
LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right

HER WEBSITE:
http://wucker.com/material/writings.htm


<>  ~ 6:40 pm  CST -- Journalist Jonathan Landay on Cheney, Iraq and other news



Jonathan Landay is a regular guest at the Monitor. He and The Monitor's co-host Mark Bebawi will talk about recent news developments regarding Iraq, Cheney, and more.

Jonathan S. Landay, national security and intelligence correspondent, has written about foreign affairs and U.S. defense, intelligence and foreign policies for 15 years. From 1985-94, he covered South Asia and the Balkans for United Press International and then the Christian Science Monitor. He moved to Washington in December 1994 to cover defense and foreign affairs for the Christian Science Monitor and joined Knight Ridder in October 1999. He speaks frequently on national security matters, particularly the Balkans. In 2005, he was part of a team that won a National Headliners Award for ``How the Bush Administration Went to War in Iraq.'' He also won a 2005 Award of Distinction from the Medill School of Journalism for "Iraqi exiles fed exaggerated tips to news media."

HIS WEBSITE:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/columnists/jonathan_s_landay

ARTICLES:
"White House denies Cheney endorsed water boarding"
By Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers
Oct. 27, 2006
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/columnists/jonathan_s_landay/15867370.htm

"Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding"
By Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers
October 25, 2006
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/columnists/jonathan_s_landay/15847918.htm


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ARCHIVES for the Monitor                   

November 19
-- Jonathan Simon on 3 million votes gone astray
-- Filmmaker Robert Greenwald on his film "Iraq for Sale"

November 12
-- Rev. Steve Copley on the minimum wage initiatives
-- Robert Parry on the Robert Gates nomination for Defense Secretary

 November 5
-- information technology consultant Bruce O'Dell
-- attorney and former political survey research analyst Jonathan Simon, both on election fraud issues

October 29
-- Shannon Young re rebellion in Oaxaca
-- Harri Hursti and Ed Felten on stealing electronic elections
-- musician Hank Woji

October 22
--  Dr. LES ROBERTS reports 650,000 casualties in Iraq
-- New York Times columnist FRANK RICH on spin

October 15 - The Monitor was preempted for KPFT board election material.

October 8
--  past board chair of Amnesty International CHIP PITTS
on the current state of human rights law
-- election activist RADY ANANDA of Ohio on the recent conference there, and the hand-counted paper ballot initiative

October 1
--  Law professor MARJORIE COHN on new legislation enabling torture, imprisonment without access to evidence or counsel
-- Journalist HEATHER WOKUSCH on the prospects for an October surprise.  Also, what citizens can do.

September 24 
-- Joe Galloway on the demise of the US Army; torture
-- Ed Felten of Princeton on their investigation of a Diebold DRE: Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine, http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting