BradCast' 8/28/2015 (Remembrances of Cindy Sheehan's Crawford uprising & Hurricane Katrina - 10 years later)
Both Hurricane Katrina and Cindy Sheehan's 'Camp Casey' anti-war uprising in Crawford, TX took place 10 years ago this week. On today's program, we commemorate both. First, reporter Colleen Kimmett joins us to discuss the successes and failures of the privatized charter school system that took over in New Orleans following the Katrina disaster. Then, remembrances from our on-the-ground, round-the-clock coverage of Sheehan's historic anti-war protest outside the Bush Ranch in Crawford in August of 2005, including the remarkable on-air moment when we first received the National Weather Service warning about Katrina coming ashore at the very same time. Plus our latest Green News Report....