Mike Davis on PBS

PBS Airtime: Friday, March 20, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. DST on PBS

With the media buzzing over socialism in the Beltway, Bill Moyers sits down with "old-school socialist" Mike Davis for his critique of the government's response to the economic crisis and how he thinks it compares to Roosevelt's New Deal. Davis is a writer and historian who teaches creative writing at University of California, Riverside.

Also, Bill Moyers talks with Marta Palaez, president and CEO of a domestic abuse shelter in San Antonio, Texas, - Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc., - for perspective on the human face of the economic downturn and how it may be pushing some families over the edge.

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