Photo Courtesy of PRI

Highlights from the nationally-televised symposium Vision for a New America: A Future Without Poverty with moderator Tavis Smiley and panelists Newt Gingrich, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, John Graham, Jeffrey Sachs, Rose Ann DeMoro, Mariana Chilton, Cornel West, and Jonathan Kozol.

Photo by Public Broadcasting Media

"Former Congressman Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, gets down and dirty with the campaign financing system and Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, explains why her union is sitting out this year’s presidential election. Plus, Smiley and West dissect the DNC, Rahm Emanuel battles Chicago’s teachers, and Bishop Desmond Tutu wants George W. Bush and Tony Blair in the Hague."  listen

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), National Lawyers Guild executive director Heidi Boghosian, and guitarist Ry Cooder join Smiley and West for their un-Convention-al coverage of the RNC and DNC. Plus, West previews the upcoming Blow the Whistle on Stop-and-Frisk action on September 13th. - Listen -