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Earlier this year for most Americans, buying inexpensive toys for their children was an easy endeavor. Now, as the holiday season is in full swing, consumers trying to avoid Chinese-made toys associated with poisonous lead paint, they’re finding it’s not so easy. Eighty percent of toys sold in the US are made in China and 25 million children’s products have been deemed dangerous. Many toxic toys are still on shelves. Last month a toy called Aqua Dots was recalled after it was found to be coated with a toxic chemical that metabolizes into gamma hydroxy butyrate or GHB — the so-called date rape drug. Recently Consumer Reports magazine and the Illinois Attorney General found that a red Fisher-Price toy blood pressure cuff contained lead at 7 to 9 times the legal limits in Illinois, Fisher-Price agreed to recall it. But only in Illinois.
We’ll examine the state of healthcare as California’s Senate passes a Medicare-for-All Bill. And, a year after the passage of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the ACLU is calling for greater progress in women’s pay equality. Plus, author and analyst Dilip Hiro joins us to discuss his latest book After Empire, the Birth of a Multipolar World.
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4th Annual Fair Trade and Conscious Gifts Holiday Bazaar featuring local and international fair trade and hand made items
WHEN: Saturday December 12th 2009, 11 am – 4 pm
WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 …
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GUEST: Mike Russo, Consumer Advocate with CALPIRG
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