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Not Conservative. Not Liberal. AMERICAN. Gary Barkley and Matt Stannard co-host this weekly progressive American conversation. Our goal is to bring all Americans together for a better future. During the show’s air time, listeners are encouraged to call in and share the sacrifice. Give the world your input and ideas, and together we will take back our country from the stranglehold of ideological elites and greedy corporations. Call in. Stand up. Speak out. Guest call-in number is 347-327-9615.

Joan Burke is our guest today. Ms. Burk is the Director of Advocacy for Loaves & Fishes, a homeless shelter in Sacramento, California. Loaves & Fishes is a private charity, which neither solicits or accepts government money and relies only on private donations to support its work of feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless. Ms. Burke is an award winning activist and has a wide variety of experience in helping the needy. She sits on the on the Sacramento Cities and County Board on Homelessness and is a board member of the Inter-Agency Council, and is currently Co-Chair of the Housing Committee of the Inter-Agency Council. You can visit Loaves & Fishes online at www.sacloaves.org. Call in, stand up, speak out at 347-327-9615.

Jeffrey A. Miron is Senior Lecturer on Economics at Harvard University. Dr. Miron received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Swarthmore College in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1984. He has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan (associate professor with tenure), Boston University (professor with tenure) and as a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. and the Department of Economics, Harvard University From 1992-1998, he was chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University. Dr. Miron has published more than 25 articles in refereed journals and 30 op-eds in the Boston Herald, Boston Business Journal, and Boston Globe. He has been the recipient of an Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship. Dr. Miron’s area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with particular emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs. Call in, stand up, speak out at 347-327-9615.

Dr. Richard Wolff is our guest today. He will join us to talk about the collapse of capitalism and his most recent work "Capitalism Hits the Fan". Dr. Wolff is an American economist, well-known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology and class analysis. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1969 and frequently collaborates with fellow economist Stephen Resnick. Dr. Wolff taught at the City College of New York from 1969-1973, and then began teaching at the Economics Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has been full professor since 1981. He began collaborating with Stephen Resnick during their common appointments at the City University of New York, and continued after they both moved to University of Massachusetts. Wolff and Resnick have jointly published numerous articles and books that formulate a nondeterminist, class analytical approach. Their topics have included Marxian theory and value analysis, overdetermination, radical economics, international trade, business cycles, social formations, the Soviet Union, and comparing and contrasting Marxian and non-Marxian economic theories. In 1989, Dr. Wolff joined efforts with a group of colleagues, ex- and then current students to launch Rethinking Marxism, an academic journal that aims to create a platform for rethinking and developing Marxian concepts and theories within economics as well as other fields of social inquiry. He continues to serve as a member of both the editorial and the advisory boards of the journal. http://rethinkingmarxism.org/cms/ and http://www.capitalismhitsthefan.com/. Call in, stand up, speak out at 347-327-9615.