Interviews and Articles from BORDC Staff
On this page, you will find an archive of select interviews with and articles written by BORDC staff. Links are provided for those items for which they are available.
Interviews (Print, Radio, and Television)
2009
Shahid Buttar on Atlantic Television News's American Dream, May 22, 2008
Shahid Buttar on WMNF's True Talk, May 22, 2008
Chip Pitts in "Obama Considering a National Security Court For Some Terrorism Prosecutions" by William Fisher, The Public Record, May 19, 2009
Chip Pitts in "Obama Sharply Criticized For Reviving Bush-Era Military Commissions" by William Fisher, The Public Record, May 16, 2009
Chip Pitts in "On the Appointment of S. Buttar," Muslim Media Network, April 23, 2009
Shahid Buttar and Chip Pitts in "City rights group hires a scholar with extra talent" by James F. Lowe, Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 22, 2009
2008
Chip Pitts on Freedom Fighter Radio, December 12, 2008
Chip Pitts on KNON's Empowerment Radio, November 18, 2008
Nancy Talanian on Meria, July 29, 2008 (subscription required)
Nancy Talanian on WHMP's The Bill Dwight Show (Guest Host: Bill Newman), July 24, 2008
Ben Grosscup on KHSU's Thursday Night Talk with David Cobb, July 3, 2008
Nancy Talanian in "Sign on for the Bill of Rights" by John Nichols, The Nation, June 27, 2008
Ben Grosscup on KSKQ's Brain Labor Report, June 18, 2008
Ben Grosscup on The Real News Radio, June 12, 2008
Hope Marston in "Failing to Use the 1st Amendment to Defend the Bill of Rights," Extra! Magazine, May/June 2008
Nancy Talanian on Radio Islam, May 8, 2008
Ben Grosscup on Freedom Fighter Radio, April 18, 2008
Nancy Talanian and Hope Marston on Looking Forward with Randy Bizenz, March 1, 2008
Ben Grosscup on WMUA In Focus with Peter Tusinski, February 17, 2008
Hope Marston on American Forum with Karen Kwiatowski, February 4, 2008
Nancy Talanian on Air America Radio Morning Show with Lee Rayburn, January 31, 2008
Hope Marston on Radio Islam, January 29, 2008
Chip Pitts in "Dallas activists join international protest against Guantanamo Bay prison" by Chad Jones, Pegasus News, January 12, 2008
2007
Hope Marston on KSKQ's Brain Labor Report, December 13, 2007
Hope Marston on Radio Islam, December 3, 2007
Nancy Talanian on WAMC in Albany, NY, November 24, 2007
Hope Marston in "Bringing the War on Terrorism Home: Congress Considers How to 'Disrupt' Radical Movements in the United States" by Jessica Lee, The Indypendent, November 16, 2007
Ben Grosscup on CBS Radio in Hartford, CT, November 15, 2007
Nancy Talanian in "Civil liberties advocates urge defeat of Mukasey" by Tim Wheeler, People's Weekly World, November 10, 2007
Ben Grosscup on Constance Cumbey's Podcast, November 6, 2007
Hope Marston on KSKQ's Brain Labor Report, October 25, 2007
Nancy Talanian on WSCA's Portside with Burt Cohen, September 4, 2007
Nancy Talanian on Air America Radio with Lee Rayburn, August 13, 2007
Nancy Talanian on Air America Radio with Lee Rayburn, April 3, 2007
Nancy Talanian on Radio Islam, February 21, 2007
Hope Marston on KSKQ's Brain Labor Report, January 11, 2007
Nancy Talanian on WSCA's Portside with Burt Cohen, January 9, 2007
2006
Chip Pitts on Pacifica Radio Network's Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots, November 16, 2006
Ben Grosscup on Radio Liberty with Stan Montieth, November 2 and 6, 2006
Nancy Talanian on DENNews.com, October 10, 2006
Chip Pitts on KPFT's The Monitor, October 8, 2006
Nancy Talanian on WSCA's Portside with Burt Cohen, September 28, 2006
Chip Pitts on Arab Voices Radio, September 13, 2006
Nancy Talanian on WWRL's Sammy & Army Show (Debate with David Rivkin), July 25, 2006
Chip Pitts on KPFA, May 18, 2006
Chip Pitts on KNON, April 24, 2006
Nancy Talanian on Air America Radio Morning Show, April 21, 2006
Chip Pitts in "When Adversaries Become Allies: The Fight Against the Patriot Act and the Surveillance State" by Abby Scher, The Public Eye Magazine, Spring 2006
Chip Pitts on KXJZ's Insight, March 24, 2006
Nancy Talanian on WRPI's Capital Report with Mark Dunlea, March 22, 2006
Nancy Talanian on KPFA's Uprising Radio with Sonali Kolhatkar, March 3, 2006
Nancy Talanian on Wisconsin Public Radio (Host: Kathleen Dunn), January 27, 2006
Nancy Talanian on Air America Radio Morning Show, January 25, 2006
Nancy Talanian on Pacifica Radio Network's Sprouts, January 18, 2006
2005
Nancy Talanian on WORT's A Public Affair, December 23, 2005
Nancy Talanian on KPFA's Uprising Radio with Sonali Kolhatkar, December 20, 2005
Nancy Talanian on Wisconsin Air America Radio (Host: Lee Rayburn), December 19, 2005
Nancy Talanian on KPFA's Living Room with Kris Welch, December 16, 2005
Nancy Talanian on Radio Islam, December 15, 2005
Nancy Talanian on KPFA's Uprising Radio with Sonali Kolhatkar, November 18, 2005
Nancy Talanian on WGNUs' Wake-up Call with Lizz Brown, November 9, 2005
Nancy Talanian in "Let Freedom Ring," Satya, October 2005
Nancy Talanian WSCA's Portside with Burt Cohen, October 5, 2005
Nancy Talanian on KUSP's Talk of the Bay, August 2, 2005
Nancy Talanian on WRPI (Host: Alice Hamilton), June 20, 2005
Chip Pitts on Law and Disorder Radio, June 20, 2005
Chip Pitts on Direct Democracy, June 15, 2005
Nancy Talanian on KPFA's Morning Show, April 7, 2005
Nancy Talanian on WDMK's Your Voice with Angelo Henderson, April 7, 2005
Nancy Talanian and Kit Gage in "Time to Fix the Patriot Act," San Francisco Chronicle, April 7, 2005
Nancy Talanian on KPFK's Beneath the Surface with Jerry Quickley, April 6, 2005
Nancy Talanian on BBC World Service, February 1, 2005
Nancy Talanian on WAMC, January 10, 2005
Nancy Talanian on WGNUs' Wake-up Call with Lizz Brown, January 6, 2005
2004
Nancy Talanian on WGNU's Wake-up Call with Lizz Brown, November 22, 2004
Nancy Talanian on PBS's The Cost of Freedom, September 2004
Nancy Talanian in "Pitching the Patriot Act" by Vanessa Blum, Legal Times, August 3, 2004
Nancy Talanian on WRTI Temple Public Radio (Host: Meridee Duddleston), June 15, 2004
Nancy Talanian in "Declarations of Independence" by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, June 14, 2004
Nancy Talanian in "Cities Say No to the Patriot Act" by Kim Zetter, Wired News, June 7, 2004
Nancy Talanian on KTSA's Morning Edge with Trey Ware, June 10, 2004
Nancy Talanian in "Patriot Act Besieged" by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, May 28, 2004
Nancy Talanian in "Massachusetts Town Becomes 300th Jurisdiction to Denounce Patriot Act" by Jim Lobe, OneWorld US, April 30, 2004
Nancy Talanian on WCHB's Inside Detroit with Mildred Gaddis, April 22, 2004
Nancy Talanian on WGNUs' Wake-up Call with Lizz Brown, March 1, 2004
2003
Nancy Talanian on WRSI's Big Breakfast with Rachel Maddow, December 10, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WERE, December 5, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "Odd Bedfellows Fall in Line" by Sara B. Miller and Seth Stern, Christian Science Monitor, October 29, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WRSI (Host: Rachel Maddow), October 24, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WFCR (Host: Bob Paquette), October 15, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "Patriot Act Battle is Fought Locally" by Debbie Howlette, USA Today, July 15, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "Patriot Games" by Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, July 8, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "100th Civil Liberties Safe Zone! Hawaii Is the First State to Defy Ashcroft" by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, May 30, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "Cooperation Under USA Patriot Act Considered a Crime" by Michelle Locke, Associated Press, May 18, 2003
Nancy Talanian on KPFK's The Lawyers Guild with Jim Lafferty, May 8, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WNYC's On The Media, April 25, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WBT Radio's Keith Larson Show, April 23, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "Local Officials Rise Up to Defy the Patriot Act" by Evelyn Nieves, Washington Post, April 21, 2003
Nancy Talanian on Voice of America, "Patriot Act and the Bill of Rights," August 7, 2003
Nancy Talanian on "Local Communities Refuse to Enforce Patriot Act" with Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Fox News, May 20, 2003
Nancy Talanian on ZDF (German public television) Heute Journal, "Patriot Act," May 8, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WPRN (Host: Valerie Richardson), May 2, 2003
Nancy Talanian on K-Talk Radio's Born on the Fourth of July with Barbara Jean Whitely, May 1, 2003
Nancy Talanian on NPR's Talk of the Nation, April 22, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "Arcata the Defiant" by Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 2003
Nancy Talanian on Meria, March 25, 2003 (subscription required)
Nancy Talanian on IBIS Radio's Radio with a View with David Goodman and Marc Stern, February 25, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WRPI (Host: Geralyn McDowell), February 12, 2003
Nancy Talanian in "Cities Balance Safety, Liberty," Associated Press, January 12, 2003
Nancy Talanian on WOJB, January 1, 2003
2002
Nancy Talanian in "Cities Urge Restraint in Fight Against Terror" by Michael Janofsky, New York Times, December 23, 2002
Nancy Talanian on KPFK's Beneath the Surface, December 20, 2002
Nancy Talanian on WPHT's Philly Talk Radio, December 19, 2002
Nancy Talanian on American Radio with Peter Werbe, December 19, 2002
Nancy Talanian in "Cities Say No to Federal Snooping" by Julia Scheeres, Wired News, December 19, 2002
Nancy Talanian in "New Breed of Patriots Speaking Up" by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2002
Nancy Talanian on KPFA's Sunday Salon, November 24, 2002
Nancy Talanian on WBAI's City Watch, October 2, 2002
Nancy Talanian on WBAI's Wake-up Call, September 26, 2002
Nancy Talanian on PBS's Now with Bill Moyers, September 13, 2002
Nancy Talanian on KBOO's Voices From the Edge, July 25, 2002
Various/Unknown Dates
Chip Pitts on Air America Radio
Chip Pitts on Law and Disorder Radio
Chip Pitts on KERA Public Radio
Chip Pitts on Pacifica Radio Network
Chip Pitts on Al Jazeera Television
Articles and Opinion-Editorials
"Gonzales's Constitution Day Gift to the United States" by Hope Marston and Ben Grosscup, Common Dreams, August 29, 2007
"Under Surveillance: The End of Illegal Domestic Spying? Don't Count on It" by Chip Pitts, Common Dreams, March 16, 2007
"We the People?" by Chip Pitts, Common Dreams, November 13, 2006
"Give Big Brother the Boot" by Nancy Talanian, MichaelMoore.com, November 3, 2006
"On PATRIOT Act’s Fifth Anniversary, We Celebrate the Resistance" by Hope Marston, Common Dreams, October 26, 2006
"A Constitutional Disaster" by Chip Pitts, The Nation, October 22, 2005
"Big Business and the Patriot Act" by Chip Pitts, The New Republic, October 20, 2005
"Democracy in Action" by Chip Pitts, Common Dreams, June 14, 2005
"John Ashcroft's Legacy" by Nancy Talanian, Common Dreams, February 16, 2005
"License to Criticize the Patriot Act" by Nancy Talanian, Common Dreams, April 2, 2004
"What the Justice Department Inspector General's Report Doesn't Tell Us" by Nancy Talanian, Common Dreams, February 4, 2004
"Bill of Rights, R.I.P." by Nancy Talanian, in Abuse Your Illusions, Russ Kick (Ed.), April 2003: Disinformation Company, pp. 245-249.
"Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and Federal Executive Orders that Threaten Civil Liberties" by Nancy Talanian, in Criminal Defense Weekly, November 1-14, 2002
Conference Presentations
Chip Pitts, "Re-Shaping the Human Rights Agenda: Opportunities in the New Administration," American Bar Association's Spring 2009 meeting