| Jun 12 Mandel and guest Sharon Tennison discuss the latter's years-long work in post-Soviet Russia to train 6,000 starting entrepreneurs in how to do business, prohibited by Marxist socialism. She has recruited 23,000 volunteer Americans, with the aid primarily of Rotary clubs, to host and train these people. Mandel emphasizes that this has produced a substantial number of friends in each country for the people of the other, and that this is vital inasmuch as the U.S. and Russia are the only countries with enough nuclear warheads and means of delivery to end the existence of mankind if they go to war. |
Jun 26 An English-speaking Chilean and a Spanish-speaking American woman of Mandel's acquaintance who was there when Pinochet ousted Allende and has visited regularly since, will describe that event and what has happened since then, culminating in the restoration of democracy and what the consequences have been. |
Jul 10 Bill Mandel will interview a former Black Panther prisoner, Larry Pinkney, who believes his life was saved by the actions of KPFA listeners 20 years ago. They will talk about how to improve the status of Blacks today and their present relationship with whites and with Latinos. |
| Jul 24 The Elected chief of one of the two Indian reservations in the U.S. [Minnesota] that never signed a treaty surrendering its sovereignty will join Bill Mandel. It is now being pressured in a particularly ugly fashion (frame-up jailing of the chief's son) to share its revenue from gaming with Minnesota, which is running a deficit, although the Indians' living standard remains way below that of whites in the state. |
Aug 14 Bill Mandel will have as guest the slam poet Shailja Patel, now working on the one-woman show Migritude. It reflects the thoughts and emotions arising from being a woman born on one continent, Africa, to a family from another, Asia, university-educated on a third, Europe, and living and working on a fourth, North America. She will read from her poetry, converse with Bill, and answer questions from the audience. |
Aug 28 |
| Sep 09 | Sep 23 A teacher-astronaut who has taken all the training and passed the tests, will guest on "Thinking Out Loud With Bill Mandel," Friday, 2:30 p.m. He will speak and answer questions on "The Politics of Space." |
Oct 14 Excerpts from Bill Mandel's testimony in front of HUAC. Bill will take calls |
| Oct 21 | Oct 28 | Nov 11 The second half of Bill Mandel's version of "Good Night and Good Luck," - his testimony before Sen. Joe McCarthy's committee in 1953, a year before Ed Murrow |
| Nov 25 | Dec 09 | Dec 23 |