Jul 16 2008
We’ll have a conversation with Green Party vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente about why she accepted the nomination and what her hopes for the party are. And, we’ll hear what community activists are doing to save Self-Help Graphics, a local haven of Chicano art whose building was recently sold. Plus, a live report from Beirut on this week’s prisoner swap between Israel and Lebanon. …
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Jul 16 2008
Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama laid out his Iraq war policy in a New York Times op-ed earlier this week. The Illinois senator described Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki’s call for a timetable for withdrawal “an enormous opportunity.” Describing the Bush Administration’s surge in Iraq as successful, Obama proposes a phased redeployment of U.S. troops …
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Jul 16 2008
This past Monday thousands of health care workers from across California marched in Manhattan Beach for their rights. But they were not protesting a heavy-handed employer – rather they were marching against their own parent union, SEIU. What motivated over 5000 union members to publicly call attention to an internal conflict was a series …
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Jul 16 2008
Advertising her one-woman performance, local artist Monica Palacios, invites you to “Enjoy an evening of wholesome lesbo raunch and experience righteous rants of nationality, sexuality and middle age flab.” With a resume that boasts such solo shows as “Latin Lezbo Comic,” “My Body and Other Parts,” and “A Sexplosion of Tantalizing Tales,” as …
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Jul 16 2008
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on the Declaration of Iraqi Independence
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Jul 16 2008
“I think we’re losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don’t care whether it’s ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.” — Betty White …
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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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