Dec 20 2006
GUEST: Mubark Awad, President of Non-violence International
Following a failure to form a Palestinian unity government, factional violence has broken out in the Palestinian territories. Earlier this year, the militant organization, Hamas, won the majority of seats in municipal elections. In response, Israel, the US and other countries have enforced an economic blockade, impoverishing government …
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Dec 20 2006
GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus
One week ago today, Florida death row inmate, Angel Diaz, was executed by lethal injection. It took him more than half an hour to die. The botched execution required a second dose of chemicals to be administered after the first injection punctured Diaz’s …
Dec 20 2006
GUESTS: Katherine Daniels, Trade Policy Advisor with Oxfam, Viji Rangaswami, Associate with the Trade Equity and Development Project with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The US Congress has just amended and extended the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) that allows 38 African countries to export goods to the US market. AGOA was enacted …
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Dec 20 2006
GUEST: Thandisizwe Chimurenga, writer, activist, and the Director of the Ida B. Wells Institute.
The [lack of] Crisis in Black Leadership
A lot has been said recently – and continues to be said – about the crisis in Black leadership. While I do agree with most of the critiques raised by various voices, I cannot help but notice …
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Dec 20 2006
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.” — Eleanor Roosevelt …
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Dec 20 2006
… on the The American Invasion of Panama
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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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