Mar 02 2010
We’ll find out what’s in store for gun control laws across the country as the Supreme Court takes up a handgun ban in Chicago. And, local libraries are facing major budget cuts. The President of the Librarians Guild will join us in studio. Plus, Mujeres De Maiz hold their annual event in Los Angeles – we’ll speak with an organizer and a musician. And this week’s Who Said That Contest. …
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Mar 02 2010
President Barack Obama hosted Republican and Democratic lawmakers at Blair House on Thursday for a health care summit. The seven-hour televised discussion attempted to reconcile differences between the two major parties on proposed health care legislation. Republicans verbalized a willingness to work with Democrats in introducing reforms aimed at insuring those with pre-existing conditions. They nevertheless repeated …
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Mar 02 2010
A few days ahead of the February jobs report, Vice President Joe Biden is touting Obama’s stimulus package which he claims will create between 100,000 and 200,000 jobs a month by this summer. What is usually not discussed is the quality of jobs created and whether they actually sustain American livelihoods. For many Americans, making ends meet has …
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Mar 02 2010
Racial tensions continue to rise on the campus of UC San Diego after a noose was found hanging from a bookshelf of one of the school’s main libraries on Thursday. A female student came forward and claimed responsibility for the act that prompted demonstrations the following day, culminating in a student takeover of the Chancellor’s office for several …
Mar 02 2010
Claudette Colvin
Back in the day on, March 2nd, 1955, a fifteen-year old African-American girl refused to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Claudette Colvin had been making her way home from school when she acted in defiance nine months before civil rights icon Rosa Parks had undertaken the very same …
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Mar 02 2010
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” — Maya Angelou …
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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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