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GUEST: Maria Elena Durazo, Executive Director of the L.A. County Federation of Labor
On Thursday September 28th the immigrant rights movement plan to hold the largest act of civil disobedience on record in the history of Los Angeles. Demonstrators will march on the Century Corridor near Los Angeles International Airport. LAX Century Corridor is …
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27
2006
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GUEST: Nomi Prins, author of “Jacked: How ‘Conservatives’ are Picking your Pocket (Even if you didn’t Vote for Them),” and a senior fellow at Demos, a public policy think tank in New York City
As we come upon the Congressional elections in November, Republicans are gearing up to fight to keep control of Congress. A new …
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Sep
27
2006
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GUEST: David Lochbaum, author of a new report called “Walking a Nuclear Tightrope,” and Director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists
No U.S. nuclear power reactor has experienced significant core damage since the partial meltdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island (TMI) in 1979. Does this mean that …
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Sep
27
2006
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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator, formerly with the Black Commentator. He is now affiliated with ‘The Black Agenda Report.’
This week’s commentary is called:
The U.S. Against the World
Let us return to the United Nations forum, a place where the United States has felt above inhabiting since shortly after the U.S. and its war-time allies created …
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Sep
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2006
“Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.” — Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion …