Archives for 15 July 2008
July 16, 2008
Published 15 Jul 2008 at 2:00 pm.
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We’ll look at Barack Obama’s position on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the newly revealed video of a teenager being interrogated at Guantanamo. Plus, healthcare workers in California take on their parent union SEIU, and Monica Palacios joins us in studio to talk about her latest performance, “Greetings From a Queer Senorita.”
Obama and McCain Court Latino Voters
Published 15 Jul 2008 at 10:21 am.
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Filed under Feature Stories.
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GUESTS: Roberto Lovato, writer with New American Media, frequent contributor to The Nation, Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association and the executive director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have spent the past week or so courting potential Latino voters ahead of November’s election. The two spoke at …
Voices of the Chicago 8: A Conversation With Tom Hayden - Part 2
Published 15 Jul 2008 at 10:21 am.
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GUEST: Tom Hayden, former state assembly and senate representative, member of the “Chicago 8,” co-author of several books including Voices of the Chicago Eight
A Generation on Trial
Yesterday we played you part 1 of a conversation I recently had with activist and writer Tom Hayden, about the tumultuous sixties, and the seminal moment when the so-called …
Uprising is 5 Years Old!
Published 15 Jul 2008 at 10:21 am.
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Five years ago to this day Uprising was born. On July 15, 2003, we broadcast the very first edition of this program featuring, among other things, an interview with Alfred McCoy about the revised edition of his historic book, The Politics of Heroin. It had been over a year since I began working at KPFK …
July 15, 2008
Published 15 Jul 2008 at 9:53 am.
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Filed under Subversive Thoughts.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.” -– Albert Einstein
