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PeaceWatch Archives
Monthly
compilations of Peacewatch headlines are available to the
right. From these monthly compilations, you can access the
individual day's entire show 'rundown' (the text outline of
the show), as well as link to the audio of the show, if available.
The first show available online aired on Sept 30, 2002 (you
can find it at the bottom of the October 2002 archives to
the right).
[left to right: Verna Avery Brown, Anthony
Sloan, Ryme Katkhouda]
Peacewatch Biographies
Verna Avery-Brown (PeaceWatch Host and Producer)
- Washington Bureau Chief for Pacifica Radio who also serves
as the host of the nationally syndicated program Peacewatch
heard daily on all five Pacifica stations and affiliates.
Verna Avery-Brown’s history with Pacifica dates back
to 1988 when she covered Capital Hill as a Correspondent for
the Pacifica Network News. A graduate of American University,
Ms. Brown has worked in both public and commercial radio news
for nearly three decades.
Her career at Pacifica came to an abrupt halt in October
1999 when she walked off her job as then Anchor of Pacifica
Network News out of political protest of the direction the
management was steering the network in. Her return to Pacifica
was facilitated by the architects of the lawsuit that defeated
the prior management team and has led to a restructuring of
the network. In 2001, Ms. Brown returned as the Deputy Executive
Director of Pacifica.
Verna Avery-Brown is a wife to Robby Brown, the mother of
four sons and is proud of the fact that she’s a second
generation native Washingtonian.
Scott Gurian (PeaceWatch Producer) - Scott
Gurian is the founding producer of Pacifica's Peacewatch,
and he has produced several special, national broadcasts,
including Pacifica's thirteen hour program on the one year
anniversary of September 11th. Prior to working for Pacifica,
he was Assistant Producer and New Jersey correspondent for
Free Speech Radio News, as well as a roving reporter for Radio
for Peace International shortwave radio based in Costa Rica.
He has produced and reported for the National Radio Project,
Democracy Now!, WNYC's Radio Lab, the WBAI Evening News, WMBR
(Cambridge, MA), NPR's All Things Considered and Maine Public
Radio, and he interned with filmmaker Michael Moore.
Among the highlights of his reporting, Scott has covered
the annual vigil at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning,
Georgia; the Presidential inauguration in January, 2000 and
the protests surrounding the formation of the Free Trade Area
of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City in April, 2001. He also
filed daily reports for Democracy Now! on the February, 2001
march of the Zapatista Indians in Mexico, and he covered a
DC-NY peace walk of the group September Eleventh Families
for Peaceful Tomorrows in November of 2001.
Scott studied radio documentary at the Salt Institute for
Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and he studied video
documentary at Emerson College in Boston. He hopes to one
day be a foreign correspondent.
Angelique Shofar (PeaceWatch Associate Producer)
- Angelique Shofar is Associate Producer of PeaceWatch. Her
multi-media career began in 1995 as a free-lance writer for
a number of local African American publications including
The Capitol Spotlight and News Dimension. Angelique has written
for The New York Amsterdam News as well as African Profiles
International.
Angelique began her radio career at WPFW in 1996 doing local
and international news broadcasting and voice-over. Her television
career includes host of African Music Video Box, a national
cable television program out of New York and news reporter
for One World Media in Washington, DC. Her background also
includes marketing and public relations where she’s
done fundraising for Constituency for Africa, marketing for
performing arts organizations and promotional work for a number
of musicians and artists, namely, jazz composer, Bro. Ah and
West African singer and performer, Miatta Fahnbulleh.
Angelique’s unique style of expression extends to reveal
her many dimensions and embraces the spirituality that governs
her life. Her career extends as a holistic health practitioner.
She is a certified Yoga and Massage Therapist specializing
in women’s health and holistic parenting. At the heart,
she is a dancer and a proud mother to 5-year-old Julian Djimon
and considers her role as mother first and foremost. Angelique
is a native of Liberia, West Africa.
Lona Alias (PeaceWatch Editor)
War Reading List
BLINDED BY THE RIGHT
David Brock
"TARGET IRAQ”
Reese Erlich & Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon and foreign correspondent Reese Erlich, covers
a range of issues currently under debate. The appendix includes
IPA's detailed critiques of U.N. Security Council Resolution
1441.
WHY DO PEOPLE HATE AMERICA
Ziauddin Sadar
DEPLETED URANIUM - METAL OF DISHONOR
How the Pentagon Radiates soldiers & civilians with DU
weapon
WHAT NEXT A Memoir Toward World Peace
Walter Mosley
DISHONEST BROKER: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine
Naseer H. Aruri
A fully revised and updated version of his highly acclaimed
book, The Obstruction of Peace, The United States, Israel,
and the Palestinians, Naseer H. Aruri dismantles the many
myths about the failed Middle East “peace process.”
PATRIOTISM AND THE AMERICAN LAND
Richard Nelson, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams
THE GREATEST SEDITION IS SILENCE: Four Years in America
William Rivers Pitt
New York Times best-selling author of “War on Iraq:
What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know”, political
analyst with the Institute for Public Accuracy, and Senior
Writer for truthout.org, brings his detailed and passionate
analysis of the state of American politics under George W.
Bush to this important new book.
Pluto Press, June 2003
TARGET IRAQ
What the News Media Didn’t Tell You
Norman Solomon & Reese Erlich
The United States is selling another war. Acclaimed political
analyst Norman Solomon and veteran foreign correspondent Reese
Erlich explore the realities underlying arguments for and
against the invasion of Iraq and illuminate ways U.S. media
have helped market an unprecedented war.
WAR TALK
Arundhati Roy
WAR ON IRAQ
What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You To Know
William River Pitts with Scott Ritter
FOOD FOR PEACE
Rose Lord
IRAQ UNDER SIEGE
The Deadly Impact of Sanctions & Wars
SILENCING POLITICAL DISSENT: HOW POST-SEPTEMBER 11
ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURES THREATEN OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES
Nancy Chang
Provides a useful background to current debates with numerous
references to records concerns. There is the historical context
of such governmental actions, extending back to the Sedition
Act of 1798, and providing a sharp focus on the recently enacted
USA Patriot Act.
THE IRON TRIANGLE
Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
Dan Briody
CRUDE VISION: How Oil Interest Obscured US Gov’t
Focus on Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein
James Vallette
GAS WAR: The Truth Behind the American Occupation
of Afghanistan
Ted Rall
The Road From Damascus: A Journey Through Syria
Scott C. Davis
TINDERBOX: U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY AND THE ROOTS
OF TERRORISM
Stephen Zunes
AGAINST WAR WITH IRAQ
SECRET TRIALS AND EXECUTIONS
Barbara Olshansky
THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY
Greg Palast
STUPID WHITE MEN
Michael Moore
THEATRE OF WAR
Lewis Lapham
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