Archives for 7 May 2007

FBI To Investigate LAPD’s May Day Debacle

Published 7 May 2007 at 9:34 am. 2 Comments.
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May Day GUEST: Aquilina Soriano Versoza, Director of the Filipino Workers Center, Xiomara Corpeno, Director of Organizing with CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights pf Los Angeles)

LA Police Chief William Bratton said yesterday that up to 60 members of an elite LAPD squad that stormed into a park last Tuesday and fired upon peaceful demonstrators, have …


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Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis

Published 7 May 2007 at 9:33 am. No Comments.
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GUEST: Jonathan Cohn, author of “Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price,” Senior Editor at The New Republic, contributing editor at The American Prospect, and a senior fellow at the think-tank, Demos

Writer and reporter Jonathan Cohn has written a new book detailing the dire health care …


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Senate Considers Hate Crimes Bill

Published 7 May 2007 at 9:33 am. No Comments.
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Hate Crimes BillGUEST: Peter Montgomery, Vice President of Communications of People for the American Way

Last Thursday, the “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act” passed the House of Representatives by a 237-180 vote. The bill would expand the scope of existing federal hate crime categories to include a person’s sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and …


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Empire Notes on Azmi Bisharra and the Israeli Ethnocracy

Published 7 May 2007 at 9:32 am. No Comments.
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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire NotesEmpire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Azmi Bisharra and the Israeli Ethnocracy.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.


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Radical Day in History - 05/07/07

Published 7 May 2007 at 9:31 am. No Comments.
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… about Pontiac’s Rebellion .

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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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May 7, 2007

Published 7 May 2007 at 9:03 am. No Comments.
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“To its critics on the political right, universal health care is an imposition on liberty that weakens individual initiative. But this is the classic bait-and-switch of modern conservatism - to make us forget that in a democracy, the government is merely an expression of our will and resources as a community.” — Jonathan Cohn from “Sick”


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