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GUEST: Mahmoud Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and International Affairs, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University
On Monday, a UN human rights mission accused the Sudanese government of atrocities and characterized the situation in Darfur as a “gross and systematic violation of …
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GUESTS: Dr. Homa Hoodfar, Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, currently the interim coordinator of Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Nikki Akhavan, Board member of US Chapter of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Interventions in Iran
Two prominent Iranian feminists remain incarcerated following their arrest on March 4th, 2007 for participating …
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GUEST: David Bacon, labor journalist and photographer, author of “Children of NAFTA,” and programmer at KPFA, Pacifica Radio
Last week the California Nurses Association and its national arm, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, joined the AFL-CIO, after the national labor federation announced its official support of a single payer health care system. The CNA …
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… on the invention of the Cotton Gin.
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“…freedom and democracy are those values which are not possible to be donated to us via the power of B52 bombers and by a foreign country and spies … Achieving these values is only possible through their conscious, stable, and constant struggle.” — Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), Intl’ Women’s Day Statement, March 8, 2007. …