Updated 7-30-03
Tune-in every Monday from 1:00 to 2:00 PM on listener-supported, non-commercial WBAI, 99.5 FM (New York City) or on the Web at www.wbai.org.

Health Action is the weekly program exploring grassroots perspectives on physical, mental and spiritual health. We challenge corporate threats to our health, demystify the latest research findings, expose inequities in medical access, and present personal steps and activist campaigns to improve your health and that of the community and planet.

The show is hosted and coordinated by Kathy Davis, a chi gung instructor and Public Affairs Director at WBAI; and Bob Lederer, editor of the WBAI website and Folio, and long time health activist. For more information on other Health Action producers click here.

 

Mon., July 28, 1:00-2:00 pm: Health Action, with Natalie Burnham
Click here to listen to first 30 min (5meg).
Click here to listen to second 30 min. (5meg)

 

Mon., July 21, 1:00-2:00 pm: Health Action, with John Riley and Bob Lederer.

**Critique of Bush's global AIDS policies. Click here to listen to first 30 min. (5 meg) Since George W. Bush was selected by the Supreme Court to be President of the United States, more than 7 million people have died globally from AIDS because they did not have access to medications and nutrician that would have extended their lives. Today we’ll be exploring the efforts being made by activists and the proclamations being made by governement officials about those initiatives.

Health Action interviews Paul Zeitz, executive director of the The Global AIDS Alliance or GAA about George W. Bush’s Global AIDS policies, and Katie Krauss of ACT-UP/Philadelphia and the AIDS Policy Project about problems with Bush's $15billion dollar plan.Information can be found at www.globalaidsalliance.org, action alerts can be found at http://www.stopglobalaids.org. Overhead costs for Bush's Bilateral Emergency AIDS Relief Program will be 30-40% while the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has an overhead of 3%.See the AIDS Policy project website for more information.

**In the second half Bob Lederer looks at the latest on legal status of medical marijuana, with guests from Marijuana Policy Project. Click here to listen to last 30 min.(5meg)