John’s back from Poland, US action in Syria remains as unclear as ever, and Bloomberg’s dismal goodbye interview.

Jamie Kilstein on facing and writing about his alcoholism and eating disorder, Michelle Alexander addresses drone warfare & NSA spying, & police brutality against a man with Down Syndrome.

The New York Times has discovered that women eat lunch, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria, and all sorts of listener mail.

Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo on their new book, Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America. Also, two terrible pieces at the Washington Post about sexual assault, revolutionary Arab leftists on Syria…

It’s time for another Radio Dispatch live! Our guests and Nelini Stamp from the Working Families Party and the Dream Defenders, and Greg Basta from New York Communities for Change. We’re discussing organizing, Trayvon’s law, and oversight of the NYPD.

Listener mail adds to and continues our conversations on Syria and Manning and cultural appropriation, and John is about to be away for a week.

AP reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman released a new story on NYPD surveillance of Muslims based on their upcoming book, a Montana judge sentences a teacher who raped his 14 year old student to 30 days in prison, and listener pushback on twerkin’.

Micah Uetricht on the Chicago public school closings, the US appears ready to bomb Syria, and Molly’s new piece about the struggle for trans* rights in the military.

The NSA has spied on the UN, the VMAs happened and were kind of weird, and we actually get to a bunch of listener mail.

Chelsea Manning reveals herself to the world, the NYC city counsel overrides Bloomberg’s community safety act veto, and the specifics of how stop & frisk affects young people.

Dylan Mohan Gray joins us to discuss his new documentary Fire in the Blood, about how pharmaceutical patents on HIV treatment have resulted in the death of 10 million people in the developing world. Also, Manning is sentenced to 35 years in prison, and…

More developments in the Snowden-leaks story as UK authorities smash up computers belonging to The Guardian, the US will likely resume training the military in Mali, and more of that listener mail boatload.

Parallel issues in the Manning trial and a new study about trans* people in the military, a father petitions the US Senate to help free his son from indefinite detention in Bagram, and some awesome listener mail.