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Law and Disorder: Law and Disorder: Al McCoy, Urszula Masny-Latos

Oct 31, 2012: 10am - 11am
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WGXC broadcast's WBAI's Law and Disorder during the continued hiatus of @Issue. This week features interviews with Guest - Al McCoy, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk about his new book "Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation." Al is also the author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror" and "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. The first edition of his book, published in 1972 as The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, sparked controversy, but is now regarded as the "classic work" about Asian drug trafficking. Urszula Masny-Latos, Executive Director of the Massachusetts National Lawyers Guild since 1996. She grew up in Poland, where she was active in the student movement. After moving to the U.S., she attended University of California at Santa Cruz where she majored in sociology and legal studies; her graduate work in arts management was done at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Prior to her Guild employment, Urszula organized arts festivals, managed a theater company, and worked as an organizer for a union in Boston.