Dec 12 2006
… on the First Black Man in US House of Representatives
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Dec 12 2006
GUESTS: Hortencia Bussi De Allende (from the Pacifica Radio Archives), widow of President Salvador Allende, Nathan Crooks, editor of the Santiago Times, Francisco Letelier, an artist based in Venice, son of Orlando Letelier
A week after suffering a heart attack, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died on Sunday at the age of 91. The funeral …
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Dec 12 2006
GUEST: Dortell Williams, inmate at Lancaster State Prison
Stanley Tookie Williams was the co-founder of the notorious Los Angeles Crips gang. During his more than two decades in prison, Tookie authored a set of of award winning childrens’ books, and was nominated numerous times for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Literature Prize. He was visited in …
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Dec 12 2006
GUEST: Geri Silva, Executive Director of Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes
In November 2006 a 33 year old man named James Hoover was sentenced to life in prison. He pleaded guilty in October to three counts of first-degree robbery. Hoover was previously convicted of two robbery counts, so this was his “third strike” under …
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Dec 12 2006
“I have faith in Chile and in her destiny. Others will surmount this gray, bitter moment in which treason seeks to impose itself. You must go on, knowing that sooner rather than later the grand avenues will open along which free people will pass to build a better society — Salvador Allende, last radio address, on September 11th 1973 …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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