Mar 05 2010
we’ll speak with Bill Quigley about how mercenaries are circling Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake. Plus, a look at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent tour of Latin America. And, on International Women’s Day, a new report on women’s health in Los Angeles County shows a disturbing correlation with income and ethnicity. …
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Mar 05 2010
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* Economic Report Warns New Financial Crisis Inevitable
* Reproductive Rights in Jeopardy in Healthcare Bill, Utah, Nebraska, and W Virginia
* Black Agenda Report on Hurricane Katrina and Police Violence
* Supreme Court Once Again Tests State Gun Control …
Mar 05 2010
Students, teachers, parents, and faculty members took to the streets all across the state of California and the nation yesterday to protest cuts to K-12 schools, colleges and universities. More than 100 events took place in over 30 states in what organizers dubbed the “March 4th Day of Action to Defend Public Education.” Massive state budget shortfalls and …
Mar 05 2010
A spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Philippines announced yesterday that custody of forty-three detained health workers would be transferred to the National Police. The so-called Morong 43 were arrested last month on February 6th and charged more than a week later with illegally possessing firearms and explosives. The Armed Forces claim that the doctors, nurses and …
Mar 05 2010
Yesterday, twelve Democratic Congressional representatives, led by Bart Stupak, vowed to vote down President Obama’s health care reform bill. At issue is language in the bill that they perceive allows for the use of public funding of abortions. In fact, the bill includes stipulations that require insurers to separate public and private premiums, using only private funds …
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Mar 05 2010
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Katrina and Police Violence.
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Mar 05 2010
Ban on Racial Segregation in Schools Upheld
Back in the day on March 5th, 1956, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the ban of racial segregation in state schools, colleges, and universities. The 1954 ruling in the famed Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case had been defied by the University of North Carolina when …
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Mar 05 2010
“I ask no favors for my sex …. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.” — Sarah Moore Grimké …
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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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