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GUESTS: Joanne Landy, Executive Director of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, Eric Sawyer, Founding member of ACT UP

Activists will be marching in downtown New York today to demand a single payer health care plan and drug price controls. In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power or ACT UP, numerous organizations will make stops along the march route to address issues related to health care. The march will end at the Bowling Green bull statue on Wall Street where some of the participants will engage in acts of civil disobedience. Activists will lay out fifty body bags to represent the number of people who die daily due to inadequate access to health care …

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… about Veracruz and the Mexican-American War.

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“There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.” – Jeanette Rankin in 1929

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GUEST: Gerardo Reyes, Staff member with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

After 4 years of boycotts against the Fast food giant, Taco Bell, a well organized coalition of immigrant and people of color workers won a huge victory in 2005 for workers rights. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Southwest Florida, consisting of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan workers, garnered national attention and support for their campaign for fair wages for tomato pickets. Now, nearly two years later, the CIW is taking aim at the father of all fast food corporations – McDonald’s. The group asserts that tomato pickers are paid the same wage today as they did in 1980 and that McDonald’s is supporting a form of modern day slavery. To kick off the campaign, …

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GUEST: Carl Colpaert, director of “G.I. Jesus”

A new film by independent film maker explores the issues of war, immigration and post-traumatic stress syndrome all at once. Carl Colpaert’s new film, G.I. Jesus, features a Mexican immigrant who serves in the US military in Iraq in order to obtain citizenship. Actor Joe Arquette, who was working on a Spanish-language soap opera before auditioning for the lead role, plays Jesus Feliciano. Feliciano is a troubled young man who is haunted by the guilt of having to kill Iraqis for a US passport. Suffering from classic post-traumatic stress syndrome, he struggles with his marriage and job while having to make the decision of whether to risk a second deployment to Iraq, or give up and return …

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GUEST: Gerardo Gomez, organizer of People’s Assembly on Homelessness

This weekend, homeless persons and their supporters will hold a “people’s assembly” to address the roots of homelessness in Los Angeles. The assembly will consist of a series of panels focusing on six central issues. Homeless persons and other panelists will speak about affordable housing, hunger, health care, homeless civil rights, as well as the perspectives of women and working homeless persons. There will also be an open platform where participants can engage with one another and create solutions for the homeless crisis. The People’s Assembly is being supported by a number of activist organizations including Food Not Bombs, Axis of Justice and the Eastside Café Echospace. The Assembly will be held this Saturday, March 31st …

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… about The New Zealand Land Wars.

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“Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.” — Javier Perez de Cuellar, former PM of Peru and Secretary General to the UN

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GUEST: Teresa Montano, Professor of Chicano/Chicana Studies at Cal State Northridge, Vice President of CSUN’s CFA (California Faculty Association) chapter, and on the Board of Directors of CFA

California State University faculty have been bracing for a strike which could be the largest in US history. Last Sunday, a strike was temporarily staved off, when faculty and administrators reached an agreement to extend contract negotiations for ten more days. Administrators say that the framework for continued talks would be the findings of an impartial report by an independent fact-finder. The report, which was publicly released last Sunday, calls for an incremental salary increase for CSU faculty totaling roughly 25% by the year 2010. Cal State University faculty earn on average 18% less than their peers …

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GUEST: Pamela Paul, author of “Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families

In 1998, Federal law makers drafted the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, with the intent of protecting children from porn and other indecent material on the Web. The law would have fined commercial Web sites up to $50,000 a day and six months in prison for each day they disseminated information deemed “harmful to children.” But COPA never took effect because a court barred enforcement pending the outcome of legal challenges. Now, the law has finally been declared dead after U.S. District Court Judge Lowell Reed Jr. struck it down last week. The judge’s decision was greeted positively by a group called the Free Speech Coalition, …