PERSPECTIVES with Julie Rufo

PERSPECTIVES interviews, Table of Contents

• Ann Ginger on Civil Rights
• Kate Resucha and Karen Kenney, from Girls Inc., on raising young women
• Two Muslim neighbors, Dr. Hatifie and Sister Baldes
• Susan Galleymore about mothers in Middle East conflict areas, 2 shows
• Sureya Sayadi on Honor Killings
• Andrea Buffa on Media Reform
• Sanaz Meshkinpour on U.S.-Iran relations
• David Bacon on Immigration
• Sheryl Lane and Venesia Thompson of Urban Habitat
• Rafael Schiller-Laden of World Can't Wait
• Dr. Richard Walker on the Greening of the SF Bay Area. 2 shows
• Jacqueline Cabasso, on the dangers of nuclear energy and the resurgence of nuclear weapons, 2 shows
• Dr. Michael Parenti on the meaning of Imperialism and what we can do about it, 2 shows
• Barbara Lubin, Executive Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance
• the Renegade Rescuers about the SF Bay Oil Spill in 2007
• Elizabeth de la Vega on Outlaw Government, 2 shows
• Dahr Jamail on Iraq: What We Have Done, 2 shows
• Virender Goswami on Immigration Law Abuses
• James Soper on Electronic Voting Machines
• Antonia Juhasz on The BU$H Agenda, 2 shows
• May Day 2008, when Labor shutdown all West Coast ports to protest the invasion of Iraq
• Dr. Raj Patel on the worldwide food crisis
• Dr. Barry Schutz on Zimbabwe
• Matt Heberger on the water crisis
• MaryAnn Thomas of World Can't Wait, protesting military recruiting in Berkeley
• Daniel Lavelle on Venezuela
• Norman Solomon on the Warfare State and Political Possibilities, 2 shows
• Dr. Farid Younos on Afghanistan, 2 shows
• Betsy Rose on the importance of singing, 2 shows
• Ann Fagan Ginger on "Undoing the Bush-Cheney Legacy", 2 shows
• Ishmael Reed, on the Media's Treatment of African-Americans, 2 shows

Julie asks Mr. Goswami about abuses of immigration law by border officials. He describes the reorganization of the immigration services since 9/11, and how that has affected the procedures and policies of immigration officials.

Virender Kumar Goswami has been a preeminent practicing immigration lawyer in San Francisco, California for 21 years. (See his website at www.vgoswamilaw.com) During this time he and his law office have handled thousands of immigration cases. His name is well known in the USCIS (the Bureau of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) and other government offices, and his years of experience have helped numerous individuals and corporations with their immigration concerns. He has obtained immigration visas for researchers, scientists, engineers, business persons, investors and other professionals. He has also represented clients in complex deportation cases. His cases have been recommended for publication by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorney Goswami is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and has actively participated as the San Francisco Bay Area AILA liaison with immigration government attorneys.

Mr. Goswami studied law at the University of San Diego, and received his Master's in Comparative Law in 1988. He has been licensed to practice law in the State of California since 1987. He received an LLB from Delhi University, where he graduated in the top three percent of his class, and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics with honors from Delhi University in 1978.

Jim Soper is a member of the Wellstone Democratic Club and Co-Chair of the Voting Rights Task Force, on the web at VotingRightsTaskForce.org. He has more than 20 Years as a Computer Programmer and Senior Consultant at Digital Equipment Corp. Jim has earned Expert Status at certification hearings for electronic voting equipment. He's the author of of www.CountedAsCast.com, One American. One Vote. Counted As Cast.

Jim explains how easily electronic voting machines can defeat the purpose of democracy, turning the meaning of each vote, counted as cast, into a sham. Citing numerous studies and investigations of the manner of construction and use of such machines, Jim goes into detail about how they can be used to invalidate our votes, or worse, turn them against us.

A vivid record of investigations and demonstrations of the hazards of e-voting is available on DVD from the Election Justice Center website.

In this interview, Julie and Jim discuss how we can preserve our right to vote and have it counted properly.

Our guest today, Antonia Juhasz, is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is a Fellow at Oil Change International and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. She has taught at the New College of California and is a guest lecturer on U.S. Foreign Policy at the McMaster University Labour Studies Program in Canada.

Antonia is author of The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. Her new book, The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry, and What we Must do to Stop It, will be released by HarperCollins Publishers in September 2008.

In two half-hour interviews, Antonia explains what the Bush Agenda is and how it represents a dramatic thrust into the Middle East, seeking to change laws and economic relations entirely so that corporations can gain complete control of the oil power of the region and maintain that power far beyond the life of the Bush Administration.

Because of her experience as a policy analyst, both inside and outside our Federal government, Antonia is able to know where to research the details of our economic invasions. She can trace the decisions and limitations of the powerful as they try to reshape our world for their benefit.