Apr 24 2009
Friday April 24th:
KPFK and the Pacifica Radio Archives present Amy Goodman and David Goodman, authors of “Standing Up to the Madness” on Friday April 24th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15 at the door (no advance sales). No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The event is at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd. (@Berendo). Park at the UTLA building across the street.
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Apr 24 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Violence in Iraq Re-surges: Implications for a Continued US Occupation
* Empire Notes on the Torture Memos
* Bush Memos Reveal Ugly Extent of American Torture
* Black Agenda Report on Racial Profiling
* A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-face with …
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Apr 24 2009
In what was the bloodiest day in Iraq so far this year, two suicide bombings killed more than seventy people yesterday. The first attack took place in the national capital of Baghdad when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near Iraqi national police officers who were handing out aid. At least 25 were killed, six of which were …
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Apr 24 2009
A new essay in the latest issue of Adbusters Magazine by Douglas Haddow paints a scathing critique of pornography: not as a moral diatribe but from the perspective of a modern man deeply concerned with the negative effects of pornography on men as a result of isolating over-consumption, and lacking any significant analog to feminism. …
Apr 24 2009
A week-long Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change concludes today in Anchorage, Alaska. The gathering of hundreds of indigenous delegates from around the world will bring the summit to a close with a declaration and an action plan to be submitted to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen this December. To that end, representatives …
Apr 24 2009
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about racial profiling.
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Apr 24 2009
The Armenian Genocide
Back in the day on April 24th, 1915, the Ottoman Turkish government strategically arrested more 200 Armenian intellectual leaders in Constantinople. This mass detention of influential journalists, political leaders, and artists among others was followed by another wave of arrests of hundreds more. Noted as the “tripwire” event that set off the …
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Apr 24 2009
“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves, such as the birds, animals, fish, and trees.” — Qwatsinas …
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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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