May 07 2007
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 …
May 07 2007
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 …
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May 07 2007
GUEST: 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 …
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May 07 2007
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade
Empire 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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May 07 2007
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May 07 2007
“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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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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