Anne Raimondi will discuss her non-profit work in Bali, Indonesia over the last two years. She will give her impressions of what it is like adjusting to living and working in a foreign culture - the challenges and rewards.

Sam Oppenheim is a photographer and author. He spent the last year working on his new book, Encountering India From Kashmir to Kanyakumari: A Year Long Photographic Odyssey. Sam is a teacher in the New York City Public School System.

Mr. Paul Dalio is a second year student in New York University's Graduate School of Film. Graduates include Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese. Paul is currently working with world renowned film director David Lynch in setting up an online TV station.

Omar McDoom is a research fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. His research agenda covers civil wars, genocides, and ethnic conflicts, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. George Weiner is one of the chief authors of the Obama - Biden
Plan to Combat Cancer, announced by Senator Obama September 5, 2008.
Dr. Weiner is an Iowa cancer doctor and researcher who worked on the plan in a personal capacity. He also serves as Director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa and is the chair of the Iowa Consortium for Comprehensive Cancer Control.

James Glave is a former magazine senior editor and a onetime editor for Conde Nast’s Wired News. He has contributed to numerous other publications including Wired, Details, The New York Times Magazine, and This Old House magazine. His most recent book is Almost Green. www.glave.com

RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER is the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights organization he helped found in 1977. For over three decades, Rabbi Cooper has overseen the Wiesenthal Center’s international social agenda ranging from worldwide anti-semitism, Nazi war crimes and Restitution, to extremist groups and tolerance education. Rabbi Cooper'S editorials have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Le Monde and the Japan Times. www.wiesenthal.com

AWARD WINNING TEENAGE CLASSICAL PIANISTS REBECCA WEN, MEIGEN YU, AND JOHN WEN ALONG WITH THEIR TEACHER FEILIMN LIN. John Wen was this year's winner of the Annual Chopin Youth Competition. They will be performing this Saturday Sept 6 at 7:30 pm at the Sondheim Center of the Performing Arts. www.icpianists.com

Mr. Ed Malloy is the mayor of Fairfield, Iowa, the home of KRUU 100.1 FM. Fairfield has been designated, as one of Iowa’s great places. Mr. Malloy is also the President of Danaher Oil.

G. Joseph Kopser, Jr., Major, U.S. Army Operational Planner inside the Future Force Integration Directorate, U.S. Army. Major Kopser discusses his experience as both a cadet and teacher at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The Major holds a Masters degree from Harvard University.

Austan Dean Goolsbee is a senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign. He is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois.

Seventeen year old jazz sensation Keelan Dimick. Keelan was born and raised in Fairfield, Ia until the age of thirteen. He then moved to Boise, ID where he met and studied jazz piano with Justen Nielsen. Keelan has gone on to take first place in piano competitions at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, the Gene Harris Jazz Festival, and the Mount Hood Jazz Festival. He will be giving a benefit concert for our own KRUU LP 100.1 FM this Saturday August 2, 2008 at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts here in Fairfield, IA.

FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR JESSE VENTURA. Governor Ventura was elected in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998 as an Independent and member of the Reform Part. His victory is considered one of the greatest political upsets in U.S. history. His most recent book is entitled, Don't Start the Revolution Without Me.

ARTHUR S. BERGER, THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM'S SENIOR ADVISOR FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. In this position, he focuses on the Museum’s international relations, VIP and Development-related outreach, and key aspects of the Museum’s public relations.

FORMER CALIFORNIA STATE SENATOR ART TORRES (Ret.), Chairman, California Democratic Party. Senator Torres was elected Chairman of the California Democratic Party in 1996. He has been a leader in the Latino community, fighting for better representation and more rights for the state's large and important Latino/Chicano population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Torres

SARA ESTRIN. Ms.Estrin recently returned from working with Robin Lim, founder, director, and head midwife of the nonprofit clinic Yayasan Bumi Sehat in Bali, Indonesia. http://www.bumisehatbali.org/

Next week: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR JESSE VENTURA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura

This Week's Guests:

Rianna Koppel is an undergraduate student at Maharishi University of Management who recently returned from teaching orphans in Kenya, Africa with the Children's Orphange of Kenya. She will be part of Speaking Freely's upcoming series, "Young People Who Do Remarkable Things."

U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd. He currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and is a contender for the Democratic Party's Vice Presidential nomination. [Rebroadcast]

BUDDY BIANCALANA is a former short stop for the Kansas City Royals and the star of the 1985 World Series. Mr. Biancalana is the co-founder and director of PMPM Sports whose goal is to teach competitive atheletes to access their full potential. Buddy has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including Today Show and Late Night With David Letterman.

GUSTAVO COLLANTES is a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, who focuses on energy and climate change policy, particularly as they relate to transportation, and the economics and politics of low-carbon energy alternatives.