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GUEST: Mateo Martinez, political analyst and philosopher, with the Center for the Study of Subaltern Thought, based in Ecuador
Yesterday, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced that he may call a special session of Congress to end a political crisis that has prevented the legislature from meeting. Correa recently approached the nation’s Electoral Tribunal to …
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2007
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GUEST: Vanessa Dixon, member of the Parents and Citizens Committee to Stop Medical Experimentation, based in Washington DC
Last June, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new vaccine produced by pharmaceutical giant, Merck, called Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccination aimed at preventing a viral form …
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2007
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GUEST: Mark Bryan, artist
Pictures in my Head is the name of an art exhibit currently showing at Carlotta’s Passion Fine Art in Eagle Rock, featuring several dozen paintings and works of art by Mark Bryan, with the theme of ridiculing today’s political figures like Bush, Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld, and in general …
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15
2007
… on the LAPD Raid of a Los Angeles radio station.
Produced by Radio Rootz.
Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org …
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“A great artist… must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.” — Goethe
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