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Consider the Alternatives
Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine presents her latest memoir on getting older and wiser through alternative healing. And husband and wife filmmakers focus on the lives of Uganda's child refugees. Also, members of Berlin's Nomad SoundSystem describe the unique blend of global influences that shapes their music. But first, Washington State Congressman Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks make their case for a clean energy future.
The Leonard Lopate Show is hosting a new Thanksgiving cartoon contest, Cartoon Cornucopia! Check it out and be sure to submit your original cartoon by Wednesday, November 14 at noon.
Changing America's Energy Sources
Inspired by the hard work and ingenuity that led to the Apollo moon landing in 1969, Washington State Congressman Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks propose that America's scientific community focus with equal intensity on the challenge of changing the way we produce and consume energy. Apollo's Fire presents stories of people already working on cleaner energy sources, and offers blueprints for new legislation that can help the cause.
Read an excerpt from Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy on our books page.
Congressman Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks will be speaking
Monday, November 5 at 6 pm
The New School
Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
To reserve a seat, call 212-481-5005.
Purchase Apollo's Fire at amazon.com.
Weigh in: Would you pay more to use clean energy sources?
War in Uganda
When the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army began attacking government forces in northern Uganda, directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine turned their cameras on the youngest victims of the violence. “War/Dance” depicts the lives of children in an isolated, dangerous refugee camp as they attempt to prepare for the country's National Music Competition.
"War/Dance" opens in New York on November 9.
Learn more about the film here.
Nomad SoundSystem at the Berlin in Lights Festival
Nomad SoundSystem describes its music as sitting on "the cutting edge between electronic dance grooves and passionate Arabic live music." Leonard talks to ensemble members DJ Shazam and Tomoki Ikeda about their sound just before they take the stage at the Berlin in Lights festival.
Shirley MacLaine on Getting Older and Wiser
Academy Award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine has written a new memoir that highlights moments in her life when she found meaning in unexpected places, and explains how alternative healing has changed her life.
Purchase Sage-ing While Age-ing at amazon.com.
Weigh in: Has alternative medicine played a role in your life?
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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