Friday 4 June '10 show notes

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Jun. 8, 2010 7:46 am
By SueN
  • Show live from the United Nations, New York City.
  • Guests:
    • Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions.
    • Nick Birnback, Chief of the Peacekeeping Public Affairs Section of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
    • Bruno Lemarquis, Chief, Central Strategy and Policy, United Nations Development Programme.
    • Andrew Whitley, Director of the New York Representative Office of UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
    • Kevin Kennedy, Head of the Great Lakes Integrated Operations Team, United Nations.
  • Topics:
    • "Brunch With Bernie"
    • Peacekeeping
    • Haiti, Somalia, Palestine.
    • Helping refugees from British Palestine and their descendants.
    • The Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Bumper Music:
  • Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
  • Quote: "If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it" -- Norman Cousins.

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