Category Archives: Politics

Monday, March 17th, 2014 – Genital Integrity

March 17, 2014 1:09 pm \ Maria Sanchez

Please join Maria as she visits with frequent guest, Circumcision Correspondent, J. Steven Svoboda, a Harvard Law graduate and Founder and Executive Director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child. Steven shares with Maria some of the latest developments with Australian dissenter, Brian Morris as well as an update about the Council of Europe. As usual, always stimulating and always informative!

See Mr. Svoboda’s website for more information:
Attorney’s for the Rights of the Child

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Friday, March 14th, 2014 – Democrazy

March 14, 2014 9:43 am \ Maria Sanchez

Columbia went from being the most violent country in the world to perhaps signing a peace agreement this year. One man instrumental in creating that change as Mayor of Bogota, Antanas Mockus is the central character in the as yet to be released feature film, “Democrazy.”

Please join Maria as she visits with Andreas Dalsgaard, the Director of “Democrazy” and learn more about this inspirational leader. There is also a Kickstarter campaign associated with the film if you’d like to participate in its successful release.

Click here for the film’s website.

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Thursday, March 13th, 2014 – National Committee to Preserve Social Security

March 13, 2014 9:11 am \ Maria Sanchez

For the first time in its long history, the Social Security Administration is providing benefits to same sex married couples, thanks to the Supreme Court’s June 2013 Windsor ruling in the Defense of Marriage Act. This is a significant development with important financial implications for millions of elder lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, same sex spouses, widows, and children of LGBT parents.

Please join Maria as she visits with Webster Phillips, senior legislative representative with the National Committee to Preserve Social Security as well as a liaison with Congress on matters relating to Social Security. Click here for more information and to register.

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Friday, March 7th, 2014 – Kidney Sellers

March 7, 2014 1:29 pm \ Maria Sanchez

Medical ethicist, Sigrid Fry-Revere speaks with Maria about the international black market of organ trafficking. 90% of the world’s shortage is due to the lack of kidney donations.

Sigrid traveled to Iran to study their ‘pay for organ donations’ program. Her tome, “The Kidney Sellers” will be published imminently and she shares what she learned and why it may make sense on some level to enact similar behaviors elsewhere.

Click this link to see Sigrid’s website: Stop Organ Trafficking Now!

The Center For Ethical Solutions has more information on Ms. Fry-Revere’s book at this link: The Kidney Sellers.

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Maria is a guest on Senator Michael Brown’s program.

March 4, 2014 1:35 pm \ Maria Sanchez

Please join Maria as she guests on the BBS Radio program, “Shadow Politics” with host, Senator Michael D. Brown and co-host Kathleen Gomez, both liberal Democrats. This is an intelligent, informational, respectful exchange between the liberals and Maria’s fiscally conservative and socially liberal Republicanism.