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At 3:30 Shantel Beach is an undergraduate student at the University of Calgary, majoring in International Relations, specializing in Latin America and international development. She is originally from Canada, but is currently living in Washington D.C. and working as a Research Associate for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. She joins us for her analysis on Honduras.
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EDUCATING ESME: DIARY OF A TEACHER’S FIRST YEAR by Esme Raji Codell–Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esme–as she prefers to be called–does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library.

At 4:30 Savannah Schroll Guz “American Soma” Savannah Schroll Guz is a monthly review columnist for Library Journal and author of the fiction collections, American Soma (2009) and The Famous & The Anonymous (2004), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004. In 2005, she edited the theme-based fiction anthology Consumed: Women on Excess.

At 5 PM Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008.
Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.
Capitalism Hits the Fan chronicles one economist’s growing alarm and insights as he watched, from 2005 onwards, the economic crisis build, burst, and then dominate world events. The argument here differs sharply from most other explanations offered by politicians, media commentators, and other academics.

At 3:30 Shantel Beach is an undergraduate student at the University of Calgary, majoring in International Relations, specializing in Latin America and international development. She is originally from Canada, but is currently living in Washington D.C. and working as a Research Associate for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
Founded in 1975, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt independent research and information organization, was established to promote the common interests of the hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America.

PANAMAX 2009 and Honduras: Did They or Didn’t They Attend the Annual War Games?
In another blow against the prestige of the de facto government, ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s unexpected return to Honduras has complicated matters for interim President Roberto Micheletti, who helped plan the seizure of the government on June 28. As public demonstrations suggest, a growing number of Hondurans now appear to be aligning in support of Zelaya. Several thousand of his supporters rallied at the Brazilian Embassy where Zelaya took refuge after arriving last night on Honduran soil. The interim government did not respond kindly to the public display of support for the ousted president, imposing a military curfew from 4 pm Monday to 6 pm Tuesday.
El Heraldo, the Tegucigalpa daily, reported that 200 demonstrators were arrested after violence erupted as a result of confrontation between the protesters and the police. The Brazilian Embassy has al so been cut off from water and electricity, food is scarce.
As violence and repression ensue in Honduras, recent events in Panama are reminiscent of Washington’s traditional approach to hemispheric policy, which in the past has been marked by lies and deceit. As the PANAMAX military exercises came to a close on September 21, it still remains unclear whether Honduran military units were present for these maneuvers, as was planned before the military-led coup. Although the twenty other participants in the PANAMAX joint maneuvers have refused to recognize the illegitimate interim government, the U.S., Honduras, and Panama have released conflicting information regarding whether or not the Honduran military was in attendance. If Honduras has taken part in or were designated as affidavit observers to the games —as some evidence suggests—the U.S. as well as the other countries that condemned the coup will be exposed for their implicit collusi on with the illegal government led by Roberto Micheletti.

at 4 PM Esme Raji Codell - “Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year”
EDUCATING ESME: DIARY OF A TEACHER’S FIRST YEAR by Esme Raji Codell–Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esme–as she prefers to be called–does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman opens a window into a real-life classroom. Includes tried and true guide filled with advice and practical tips. She’s also the author of How to Get Your Child to Love Reading.

At 4:30 Savannah Schroll Guz – “American Soma” Savannah Schroll Guz is a monthly review columnist for Library Journal and author of the fiction collections, American Soma (2009) and The Famous & The Anonymous (2004), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004. In 2005, she edited the theme-based fiction anthology Consumed: Women on Excess.
Just over a decade ago, she was a Fulbright Scholar and worked at the Bavarian State Painting Collection, where she assisted in the reorganization of the 17th century Flemish painting cabinets and served as a correspondence translator for former collection director Johann Georg, Prince von Hohenzollern.

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At 5 PM Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan.
Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France)

Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. Capitalism Hits the Fan chronicles one economist’s growing alarm and insights as he watched, from 2005 onwards, the economic crisis build, burst, and then dominate world events. The argument here differs sharply from most other explanations offered by politicians, media commentators, and other academics.
Step by step, Professor Wolff shows that deep economic structures–the relationship of wages to profits, of workers to boards of directors, and of debts to income–account for the crisis. The great change in the US economy since the 1970s, as employers stopped the historic rise in US workers’ real wages, set in motion the events that eventually broke the world economy. The crisis resulted from the post-1970s profit explosion, the debt-driven finance-industry expansion, and the sequential stock market and real estate booms and busts. Bailout interventions by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have thrown too little money too late at a problem that requires more than money to solve.
As this book shows, we must now ask basic questions about capitalism as a system that has now convulsed the world economy into two great depressions in 75 years (and countless lesser crises, recession, and cycles in between). The book’s essays engage the long-overdue public discussion about basic structural changes and systemic alternatives needed not only to fix today’s broken economy but to prevent future crises.

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