Radio Nation with Laura Flanders Blog

Sunday, April 10

Laura Flanders — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:14:14 -0400

Is April the cruelest month? If you're a Republican, you might think your party was breaking apart, starting from the top. If you're on the left, you might wonder why the opposition isn't making more of this moment. Today we go outside the box to get out of the political boxing ring.

We start with ELLEN WILLIS author of, "Don't Think: Smile!" and Director of NYU Journalism School's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. She and Laura talk about the "Bush Women" and how the right's hijacking the work of the Feminist movement. Then AMIRA HASS, the pioneering Israeli journalist and author of "Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege" and "Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land." Plus GREG PALAST, investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and MARK LEVINE, host of "The Inside Scoop," on WAGE AM-1200, on the latest news. And ELAINE PETROCELLI, owner of San Francisco's Book Passage bookstore, on what's flying off the shelf.

Saturday, April 9

Laura Flanders — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:29:40 -0400

What happened to the secular state? Is America disappearing as arch-conservatives attack everything outside their view of God and country? Is the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-government domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph more a kindred spirit with today's Republican leadership than Karol Wojtyla? We've had weeks of news dominated by the hard right: Terri Schaivo's feeding tube; Tom Delay's attacks on judges; the Pope 24-7; the Arizona Minutemen's border patrols. Who is standing up for secular society? For NOT taking the law into one's own hands?

Our report from the border of the law and lawless includes Arizona Democratic State Rep. KYRSTEN SINEMA, Arizona Minuteman Project co-founder CHRIS SIMCOX and Arizona ACLU Vice-President CAROLYN TROWBRIDGE. We check in with "Guantanamo: Honor bound to defend Freedom," the play about U.S. abuses in the war on terrorism and NYC songwriter-singer NORA YORK and her new CD "What I Want."

Sunday, April 3

Laura Flanders — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:42:52 -0400

As praise pours in for the Pope's moral leadership, the contrast with an American president who fabricated the case for war grows sharper and sharper. What price do people pay when political leadership is built on a culture of lies, deceit and inside deal-making?

RAHUL MAHAJAN author of EMPIRE NOTES, tells us the latest from Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. efforts aren't helping to build a civil society or heal sectarian anything. Then ace reporter LAURIE GARRETT picks up on why the private sector isn't the answer to everything. The Pulitzer Prize winnner tells us why she left NY Newsday and the latest on big profits in big medicine. We'll also hear from APRIL JOHNSON, a truckdriver's bereaved daughter on why she is suing the war-profiteer, HALLIBURTON.

Saturday, April 2

Laura Flanders — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 03:24:42 -0500

Death and dying in America are center stage with the Pope and Terri Schiavo. First, reflections on Pope John Paul II's passing with FRANCIS KISSLING, president of Catholics for Free Choice. Then we'll talk about what we've learned about some people's strange relationship with mortality and we'll unravel the right-wing conspiracy to make the most of the Terry Schiavo case. Conservative foundations, resuscitating Operation Rescue and the Vatican's hidden hand all played a part. Pro-choice protester SUNSARA TAYLOR tells us how she braved the hospice barricades. Investigative journalist FRED CLARKSON describes the religious right's organizing. Finally, extraordinary jazz singer CHERYL BENTYNE on her new CD featuring the swing and bebop music of Anita O'Day.

Sunday, March 27

Laura Flanders — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:06:53 -0500

It's Easter Sunday, but that hasn't tempered the holier-than-thou fury of the religious right and the Terri Schiavo tragedy. Today we step back and look at progressive values - where actions and deeds often come before evangelizing and belief-based bullying.

Today's show includes an update from Ohio, where Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell got a dressing-down from passionate Democrats in hearings the media saw fit to ignore this week. Our senior producer was there and we'll play tape. Monty Python's TERRY JONES will join us live in studio to discuss Spamalot the Python's arrival on Broadway -- and "Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror," his latest collection of "observations and denunciations." Also with us, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winner, WOLE SOYINKA who says we are questing for dignity in a dehumanized world. Join us.

Saturday, March 26

Laura Flanders — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:53:04 -0500

The right-wing rampage continues and we ask, where is the care and caring in America?

As much of the media marched lock-step with Terri Schiavo's power-obsessed champions, what was missing this week? Let's start with hearing from disability rights advocates and the real record of the White House and Congress on disability issues. Then there is W's silence after the Red Lake school shootings. And Florida Gov. Jeb Bush finally earns the title, big brother, after sending a state police posse to kidnap Terri Schiavo. If local police were brave enough to stop the Bush mob - and they were - how come congressional Democrats keep going along with GOP demogogues?

We'll hear from MARY JOHNSON, editor of Ragged Edge Magazine. She'll articulate the disability rights' movement's agenda beyond Terri Schiavo. GOP lawmakers oppose most of it, like the full implementation of the Americans' With Disabilities Act. We'll also hear from Georgetown University student activists who won a rise in campus workers' wages after a hunger strike. And PATRICK FARRELLY and KATE O CALLAGHAN, producers and directors of the HBO documentary, LEFT OF THE DIAL, about Air America Radio which premiers this week.

Sunday, March 20

Laura Flanders — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:29:42 -0500

In breaking news, Congress can't adjourn without payback for the religious right. Enter Terri Schiavo. Then the struggle for hearts and minds in Iraq.

Will this week's appoinment of presidential spin-mistress Karen Hughes as State Department propagandist-in-chief, and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as the next World Bank head, do more harm than good abroad? MICHAEL SCHEUER, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit and author of Imperial Hubris and GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR, retired Engineer and leading Iraqi commentator, chime in. Then, was this the perfect eclipse of real news by tabloid television? GARY YOUNGE, New York Correspondent for The Guardian and LA Weekly Columnist, NIKKI FINKE, parse the not-so-fine line between Republicans run amok and a celebrity-stalking press.

Saturday, March 19

Laura Flanders — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:40:50 -0500

Baseball's on steroids and so are Republicans in Congress. The second anniversary of the Iraq War is here. What will change peoples minds about this administration and this war? Rep. LYNN WOOLSEY, D-CA, on changing minds in Congress. NANCY LESSIN, co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, on the anti-war protests near Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, NC, and JIMMY MASSEY, the 12-year Marine Corps veteran now with. Then introducing GORDON CHAMBERS, whose written hits for dozens of R&B greats and has a new solo CD. Maybe he will share a few secrets about striking an emotional chord.

Sunday, March 13

Laura Flanders — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:34:13 -0500

Has the White House lost its way? Are we noticing something that has escaped DC Democrats?

First, Social Security privatization is floundering. Then W. brings back Texas spin-mistress Karen Hughes to cover up what's not working overseas. Then Spain marks the anniversary of the Madrid terrorist bombing by saying what works against terrorism - and it is not passing the USA Patriot Act, trampling on Islamic detainees, occupying Iraq and threatening Iran. Plus our producer, Chris Nsiah-Buadi, gives an update on Italian journalist GUILIANA SGRENA who was freed from Iraqi kidnappers and shot by U.S. troops.

Then, is a real international crisis brewing that W. won't mention? Oil and finance expert JIM WILLIE on why a falling dollar and rising oil prices spell economic trouble ahead. Ex-marine and playwright SEAN HUZE on his new play on the Iraq War. And our Talkers are LIZZ BROWN, host of The Wake Up Call on WGNU 920am Radio Free St. Louis and JOE STRUPP, Senior Editor of Editor and Publisher, Americas Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry.

Saturday, March 12

Laura Flanders — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:13:45 -0500

When it comes to bankruptcy, minimum wages and the budget, as one commentator put it, "the money's all on one side; the hurt is all on the other." So who's going to stand up for all those hurt, asks Laura. And if people as different as Rick Santorum and Hillary Clinton can get hot and bothered about the social cost of crudeness on TV, would somebody please start screaming about the social cost of DC policies that are all for private profits and not for regular people? Plus, more Americans go bankrupt in Orin Hatch's Utah than any other state? Who's Orrin working for? Join the conversation.

Then, progressives must talk about race - not just class - to build a winning majority. BILL FLETCHER, President of TransAfrica Forum joins actor-activist DANNY GLOVER in studio to talk about 'Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow.' Guest, poet and spoken-word artist, SEKOU SUNDIATA, performs with Glover (and Ani DiFranco and others) at New York's Apollo Theater this weekend in a concert to raise public awareness about the high risk of kidney disease and the pressing need for organ donation particularly in minority communities.

Sunday, March 6

Laura Flanders — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:39:41 -0500

It's the 40th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" a day of violence in Selma, AL, that finally galvanized pressure behind the Voting Rights Act. In the USA voting rights remain a good idea not yet achieved. JESSE JACKSON JR.. and SR.. join us to discuss the Boxer-Clinton bill currently before Congress and a Constitutional amendment they've proposed.

Then, if looking at history gets you down, we've got an Agony Uncle to take your calls. Feeling discouraged? The movement advice counselor is in: PAUL ROGAT LOEB, author of "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear." Plus ROBIN BRAND, of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, on last week's significant election victory against evangelical hate-mongers in Topeka, Kansas.

Our talkers this week are DANNY SCHECTER, the news dissector and documentary film maker, and TONY TRUPIANO, host of The Tony Show. But first, an update from FABIO SERMONTI, Italian Correspondent with the British news organization, Independent Television News, on the second-day reaction to the US killing of an Italian intelligence agent who rescued a journalist held hostage. Tune in for the latest news and opinions you haven't heard elsewhere.

Saturday, March 5

Laura Flanders — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:33:39 -0500

Is saying sorry only for Stewart? How come Martha's got to be contrite but Karl, Donald and the Michaels (Novak and Chertoff) never have to apologize? Hear Laura sound off. Then FABIO SERMONTI, Italian Correspondent with the British news organization, Independent Television News, tells Laura how Italians are responding to the killing of the secret agent, Nicola Calipari in Iraq yesterday. Plus MARK CRISPIN MILLER, author of "The Bush Dyslexicon," adds his two cents on Jeff Gannon's return.

Then, Abu Graib is right here! New York Daily News writer LARRY COHLER ESSES uncovered abuse of post-9/11 detainees in New York City. We'll talk to some of those who were tortured including AKHIL SACHDEVA, and hear from SHANE KADIDAL, who's one of the lawyer's now suing the Justice Department in 'Turkmen Vs Ashcroft.' Journalist LAURA LA FAY, says it's not just foreigners whom US prisons torture, but we don't often hear about the state of Virginia's Abu Graibs. Finally, Chic guitarist NILE RODGERS, who's produced music for Madonna, David Bowie, Diana Ross, Sister Sledge plays and talks about the tracks he loves and explains why he was targeted by the Religious Right. It doesn't have to do with the tunes.

Sunday, February 27

Laura Flanders — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:28:38 -0500

Who's the best actor? W as a pro-Democracy crusader in Europe or those Oscar recipients? And what about the unfinished business of American democracy? BEN SCOTCH, organizer of a Vermont Town Meeting Day resolution on the National Guard in Iraq. Then, a decade after the U.N.'s World Conference on Women in Beijing, what's changed? And how the Right is now cloaking their anti-equality policies in the rhetoric of women's rights. ADRIENNE GERMAIN, President, International Women's Health Coalition, HIBAAQ OSMAN, V Day Special Representative to Africa, Asia and the Middle East and EMILY REAGAN WILLS, Code Pink co-ordinator for Global Week of Action for Women's Rights, all weigh in.

Then, someone who knows good acting. ANTHONY KAUFMAN, Film Editor for Time Out Chicago, tells us what to expect at this year's Academy Awards. And TIM WISE, anti-racist activist, and author of 'White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son' talks with commentator and syndicated writer EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON, about what anti-racist white people can do in the 11 remaining "white history months" of 2005.

Saturday, Feb. 26

Laura Flanders — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:17:57 -0500

Truth-telling, people power, W's therapy notes and more! Up first, how W. blew off 1,000 federal whistleblowers with JEFF RUCH of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Then one whistleblower who won't go away: FBI translator SIBEL EDMONDS on her progress against the Justice Department. On the anniversary of the first Gulf War, STEPHEN ROBINSON, Executive Director of the National Gulf War Resource Center announces the creation of a functioning safety net for soldiers - the kind the government still won't build. 1st Lt. JULLIAN-PHILLIP GOODRUM, U.S. Army Reserve, explains why he's fighting a possible court-martial for checking into a civilian psychiatric ward and YOGIN RICARDO SINGH, Director of the Homeless Veterans Re-integration Program at Black Veterans for Social Justice, says the number of homeless vets is rising.

Then, pop psychologist CAROL NORRIS shares her clinical notes from recent therapy sessions with W, Condi, Dick and Colin. Then soul-folk singer-songwriter, ALANA DAVIS best known for her cover of Ani DiFranco's song, "32 Flavors", joins Laura to talk about her relationship with music industry and her new album, "Surrender Dorothy".

Sunday, Feb. 20

Laura Flanders — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:07:59 -0500

What liberal media? What liberal academy? First up, FCC Commissioner JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN and STEVE RENDALL from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, talk about what next for media activists, what's left of the Fairness Doctrine, and do we really need cellphone on planes? Then Harvard University's problem with political correctness. RICHARD BRADLEY, author of the new "Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University," and THOMAS FRANK, author of "What's the Matter with Kansas?" take on Harvard's controversial president, Larry Summers, who isn't liberal, and yanking Harvard to the right. Then, DENISE WOOD, author of "NASCAR Women: The Heart of Racing" and Assistant editor of Racing Milestones Magazine, on today's big day at the races. Finally, TODD HANSON, writer for The Onion, and Buzzflash.com's, editor MARK KARLIN, review the news of the week.

Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005

Laura Flanders — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:41:38 -0500

Shining a bright light on the White House's blind eye. Exhibit A: the Kyoto treaty and global warming, featuring GreenpeaceUSA research director KERT DAVIES and longtime Alaska environmentalist BOB CHILDERS. Exhibit B: F.A.A. whistleblowers BOGDAN DZAKOVIC and STEVE ELSON, former leaders of the super-secret "Red Team" that snuck guns onto planes - before 9/11 - and couldn't get the F.A.A. to change its security procedures. Exhibit C: LESLIE CAGAN, of United for Peace and Justice, on the peace movement's next steps. They were right about no Iraqi WMD, spilling blood for oil. What's next? Finally, MARTHA REDBONE, in the studio on her new CD blending African American and Native American rthymn and soul.

Sunday, February 13

Laura Flanders — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:50:32 -0500

Condi's in. Carli's out. Are women at the top of the political and business world being judged more by their shoes and personal style than their actual record of accomplishment. Former Village Voice editor and noted cultural observer RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, weighs in. Then, how are grassroots media journalists helping to build a progressive media movement? DEEDEE HALLECK, Development Director for Deep Dish T.V., which produced the series powerful 13-part series Shocking and Awful and ALPA PATEL, co-ordinator on the program, "The World Tribunal on Iraq." ROSALIE SORRELS gives Laura a quick report from the Grammy Awards. Today's "Talkers," are MARILYN PITTMAN and DAVE LINDORFF, author of the controversial article titled, "The Emperor's New Hump."

Saturday, Feb. 12

Laura Flanders — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:50:12 -0500

They call it a budget, but a better word would be hit list. Is your kid on the White House enemy's list? Is their school? One thing not cut is the deadly abstinence-only miseducation program: sex education without sex. We'll talk to a survivor SHELBY KNOX from Lubbock, TX, and MARION LIPSCHUTZ, who captured her story in a new documentary, "The Education of Shelby Knox." . Then JOHN ERVIN from Modesto, CA, and Dr. ALINA COLUMBUS from Wilmington, DE, on the threat to afterschool programs, and a national perspective from SANFORD NEWMAN, founder and president of "Fight Crime: Invest in Kids." Then, LYNNE STEWART, the criminal defense lawyer who was just convicted in federal court in a political prosecution for defending anti-American Islamic fundamentalists. And finally, ANIAS MITCHELL, the 24-year-old folk singer whom they're crazy about at Buzzflash.com, is live in studio with her collaborator MICHAEL CHORNEY. "I could tell you stories like the government tells lies, but no one listens anymore," sings Anias. who's just back from Egypt.

Sunday, Feb. 6

Laura Flanders — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:49:54 -0500

On Super Bowl Sunday, what does the world of contact sports have to teach people who care about politics? CHRIS BOWERS, sports and politics blogger, joins former sports-coach DONNA LOPIANO, CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation to consider the connections. Then, the Dems will soon have a new national chairman, so what's the game plan? JOE TRIPPI, former campaign consultant to likely-chair, Gov. Howard Dean, joins TERRY LIERMAN a crazed campaigner who became the director of Maryland's Democratic Party, BILL FLETCHER JR.., who was deeply involved in '84 and '88 Jesse Jackson campaigns, and longtime Californian Democratic consultant JILL BARAD. Our talkers kick around such questions as why is the president talking about Social Security when our healthcare system is the one in crisis? And how many more books -- and cartoon characters -- are likely to be banned this year? ARNIE ARNESEN joins NELSON GEORGE, cultural critic, historian/film producer, and author of the new thriller, "The Accidental Hunter."

Saturday, Feb. 5

Laura Flanders — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:42:47 -0500

You've heard from W. Now it's your turn. What's the state of the union where you live? Weighing in, from coast to coast, are Californian columnist ROBERT SCHEER, Miami labor activist, SUSHMA SHETH, DIANA ZUCKERMAN of DC's National Research Center for Women and Families, San Francisco activist-comic MARILYN PITTMAN, the Alaska Wilderness League's, DEBBIE MILLER, BRUCE HAMILTON, of the Sierra Club and HARVEY WASSERMAN, anti-nuke activist turned voting rights crusader from Columbus, Ohio. Then, HARRY BELAFONTE remembers Ossie Davis, and finally, singer-songwriter KATE TAYLOR, on her latest CD, singer-filled family and plans to build bridges with music.

Sunday, January 30

Laura Flanders — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:46:55 -0500

What is the U.S. record when it comes to supporting democracies abroad? While Iraqis attempt to cast their votes, we talk with former political prisoner, FATHER GERARD JEAN JUSTE of Haiti about the history there. Jean Juste's just returned from meeting with Haiti's former President, Jean Bertrand Aristide in South Africa. Then, an update from reporter DAHR JAMAIL in Bagdhad, followed by a debate on the Iraq elections. Two Iraqi Americans with very different views: ABBAS KADHIM, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California (UC Berkeley) and MAHA ALATTAR, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of North Carolina. Our "Talkers" this week are REBECCA SOLNIT, activist, cultural historian and author of "Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities" and JAMAL DAJANI Director of Middle Eastern Programming at LinkTV, the first nationwide television network dedicated entirely to programs that offer a global perspective on world issues and culture.

Saturday, Jan. 29

Laura Flanders — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:09:36 -0500

In our first hour, MELISSA MAHLE, former C.I.A. Arabic Middle Eastern affairs specialist and author of "Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran Contra to 9/11" and MIKE SCHEUER, who headed the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit in 1996-99 and author of "Imperial Hubris," tell us who Iraq's real enemies are. Then, will the January 30 election help or hurt Iraqi people and the Iraqi state? We'll talk with two Iraqi Americans with very different views ABBAS KADHIM, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California (UC Berkeley) and MAHA ALATTAR, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of North Carolina. Laura's broadcasting from San Francisco and her in studio guest is a Bay area based national star: PARIS. The radical rap artist -- and former stock broker -- will talk about Bush, freedom, whatever happened to hip hop and his latest album, Sonic Jihad.

Sunday, January 23

Laura Flanders — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:36:58 -0500

Is Rummy on the run? A German news service reports the Defense Secretary cancelled a February trip to the country because German courts have not thrown out a lawsuit seeking to charge him with war crimes related to torture in Iraq. MICHAEL RATTNER of the Center for Constitutional Rights on the suit and the administration's top international fugitive.

"Are we supposed to take Bush's speech seriously?" We'll find out from DAVID KUSNET, Bill Clinton's ex-speechwriter, and presidential historian STANLEY KUTLER. Then journalist-author CHRISTIAN PARENTI has a new book on the hallucination Bush calls "freedom" in Iraq. We'll hear his reaction to the latest administration spin and hear about the realities of life in Iraq.

Finally, our talkers hour. ROBERT PARRY, the reporter who helped break the Iran-Contra story, on the latest news from Washington, where today we learn that the White House has sanctioned secret military anti-terror squads to operate inside the U.S. And Def Poetry Jam poet SUHIER HAMMAD on what should and shouldn't be in mainstream news.

Saturday, Jan. 22

Laura Flanders — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:32:10 -0500

What's the antidote to a week of mirrors, smoke, and foggy inaugural speeches in Washington? Fresh, focused thinking from some rebellious poets and politicos.

On Saturday: You've heard from George, now hear from the other W. JASON WEST, the Mayor of New Paltz, NY, lays out his plan for 2005. Bush loves freedom, except a woman's right to choose. On the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, JAEL SILLIMAN and pregnant women's advocate WYNDI MARIE ANDERSON talk about the new face of the fight for reproductive rights. Then, your predictions for this year's Academy Awards, and all the news from the Sundance Film Festival with Nation Magazine film critic PETER BISKIND and JACKIE SALLOUM, producer of the film "Planet of the Arabs" which made the Official Selection this year at Sundance.

This Weekend on The Laura Flanders Show

yacomink — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:36:47 -0500

What's the antidote to a week of mirrors, smoke, and foggy inaugural speeches in Washington? Fresh, focused thinking from some rebellious poets and politicos.

On Saturday: You've heard from George, now hear from the other W. Jason West, the Mayor of New Paltz, NY, lays out his plan for 2005. Bush loves freedom, except a woman's right to choose. On the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, Jael Silliman and pregnant women's advocate Wyndi Marie Anderson talk about the new face of the fight for reproductive rights. Then, your predictions for this year's Academy Awards, and all the news from the Sundance Film Festival with Nation Magazine film critic Peter Biskind and Jackie Salloum, producer of the film â€˜Planet of the Arabsâ€™ which made the Official Selection this year at Sundance.

On Sunday: "Are we supposed to take Bush's speech seriously?" We'll find out from David Kusnet, Bill Clinton's ex-speechwriter, and talk about media coverage of the week's news. Then, journalist, Christian Parenti, on the hallucination Bush calls "freedom" in Iraq. And Def Poetry Jam poet Suheir Hammad and Robert Parry author of "Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq", on who's inaugurating what this week. Nile Rodgers, superstar producer for Madonna, Diana Ross and Eric Clapton to name but a few, tells us why he thinks James Dobson and the religious right have the knives out for his organization, The We Are Family Foundation.