Air America to Broadcast Live from Out of Iraq Event Saturday Night

By Peter Rothberg, The Nation

We're pleased to announce that the new RadioNation show, hosted by author, activist and award-winning radio personality Laura Flanders, will debut on Air America Radio Network tomorrow night, January 7.

Broadcast for three hours each Saturday and Sunday, and available online, the show will feature news and programming from around the country; special remote broadcasts; interviews with Nation writers, editors and Nation Institute journalism fellows; reader call-ins; a weekly journalists' round table; coverage of Nation events; musicians performing live; and cutting-edge political and cultural commentary. A one-hour version will be provided free to noncommercial community and college stations. For general information, click here

RadioNation with Laura Flanders
7:00 to 10:00pm EST each Saturday and Sunday night
Air America RadioNetwork

This weekend's show will be a hot one! On Saturday, Flanders will broadcast live from one of the more than 130 "Out of Iraq" events planned for the day nationwide. Sunday's show will feature an update on the legal cases being brought on behalf of the Guantanamo Bay detainees, a journalists' roundtable with Raw Story's Larisa Alexandrovna and The Nation's Bruce Shapiro and a special commentary by Nation columnist Katha Pollitt.

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