Apr 22 2009
As New York readies to try a teenaged Somali on charges of piracy, we’ll speak with John Feffer about the dangerous rhetoric equating piracy with terrorism. And, we’ll hear from up-and-coming playwright Octavio Solis about his acclaimed play Lydia showing at the Mark Taper Forum. Plus, the EPA presents ground-breaking regulations on mercury emissions from cement kilns – we’ll hear how this could affect California. …
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Apr 22 2009
More than 30,000 Sri Lankan civilians have fled the northern part of their South Asian island nation in recent days. The Tamil rebel group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE, controls the region, a final sanctuary of the country that they have been cornered into. It is estimated than 100,000 civilians are still trapped …
Apr 22 2009
This Friday April 24th is the day of commemoration for the Armenian Genocide and this year much attention will fall on President Barack Obama. The United States has continually failed to officially recognize the atrocities committed by the Ottoman Turkish government from 1915 – 1923 as ‘genocide.’ But Obama during his presidential campaign was unequivocal stating, …
Apr 22 2009
Monday marked the tenth anniversary of the so-called Columbine Massacre, when two teenagers killed 12 classmates and a teacher in a shooting rampage at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. Tom Mauser, whose son was murdered that day, marked the occasion by calling on the Obama administration and the U.S. congress to pass legislation closing a …
Apr 22 2009
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889
Back in the day on April 22nd, 1889, the so-called Oklahoma Land Rush began. Exactly one-hundred and twenty years ago, an estimated 50,000 white would-be settlers made a mad dash at high noon to stake their claim to the newly available two million acres of so-called unassigned lands. A majority …
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Apr 22 2009
“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.” – Hunter S. Thompson …
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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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