PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
1-3 p.m.
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1:06 – 1:39
OPEN
1:41 – 1:58:30
Cell phone doubles as coyote: phone app helps immigrants cross the border
With the ubiquitous nature of cheap, internet-enabled phones it was only a matter of time before this came along: a new cell phone application will help illegal immigrants cross the treacherous U.S.-Mexico border, with GPS guidance and directions to supplies of water and food along the way. The app, developed by a UC San Diego professor and activist, is intended to be apolitical, focusing on the safety of those immigrants who inevitably illegally cross the desert everyday; but obviously political controversy is surrounding the effort. Is it immoral to aid immigrants to safely break the law?
Guest:
Ricardo Dominguez, associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego & principal investigator at the California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology; designer of the “Transborder Immigrant Tool”
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2:06 – 2:19
A housing market in conflict: making sense of contradictory housing numbers
On Monday numbers were released on U.S. existing-home sales, showing that they’ve surged about 25% from January through September of this year—good news, right? On Wednesday new-home sales figures will be released, and they’re expected to continue to drop (the Commerce Dept. already announced that new-home construction sank 10.6% in October)—bad news, right? Throw in generally stabilizing home prices mixed with an expected jump in foreclosures and we have one seriously clouded picture of the
Guests:
Richard Green, director & chair of the
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2:21 – 2:30
A warm holiday meal
The Los Angeles Mission has been doling out Thanksgiving meals for the homeless and disadvantaged for nearly two decades and this year is no different....except they expect to feed more (close to four thousand) with fewer resources. We'll talk to the president of the LA Mission about need, poverty, volunteerism, and a warm holiday meal.
Guest:
Herb Smith, President
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2:30 – 2:58:30
Playing “The Card Game”
Credit card companies have never been favorites in the eyes of the American public, but since the collapse of the economy and with it the consumer credit market the abusive and predatory practices of those companies have been in the crosshairs of lawmakers and an angry public. Frontline looks into the effort to corral credit card companies, especially in light of recent Congressional action that was meant to regulate insanely high interest rates; and that same legislation might have set off a host of new profit-making measures. Patt talks to Frontline and the major players in the war over control of your wallet.
Guests:
Lowell Bergman, FRONTLINE correspondent, “Card Game”
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Nessa Feddis, Vice President and Senior Counsel for the American Bankers Association
ON TAPE
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), author of the credit card reform bill signed earlier this year by President Obama; chair of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee
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