Apr 09 2009
We’ll find out why the Obama Administration is closing down the Guantanamo prison but keeping open the Bagram prison in Afghanistan. And, we’ll examine US-Cuba relations with professor Sujatha Fernandes. Plus, we’ll have Monica Palacios in studio about a new performance: Out with a Bang! Queer Cultures Variety Show. …
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Apr 09 2009
“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …
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Apr 09 2009
Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS, has been at the center of a growing scandal this year, for helping wealthy Americans hide their money from the IRS. Yesterday a Florida accountant was the first person arrested after UBS turned over the names of over 250 of its American clients to the IRS to avoid prosecution. The bank, which …
Apr 09 2009
Most of us cringe involuntarily when contemplating the trillions of tax dollars that are being poured into failing financial institutions. We’re all suffering, whether with job insecurity or actual unemployment, homelessness or just making our mortgage payment or rent for the month — Why should the wealthiest people, responsible for creating the economic mess, …
Apr 09 2009
The US Supreme Court decided unanimously in late March that the State of Hawaii can sell 1.2 million acres of land seized illegally by the US, without having to resolve land claims by Native Hawaiians. The land claims at stake arise from the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, which led to the annexation 5 …
Apr 09 2009
The Hanging of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Back in the day on April 9th, 1945, Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged with piano wire by the Nazis at the concentration camp in Flössenburg, Germany. Executed at the age of 39 and just one month before the end of World War II, Bonhoeffer had immediately spoken out against the …
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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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