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Public Power in the Age of Empire
GUESTS: David Barsamian, host of Alternative Radio

David Barsamian is the founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. His latest interview books include Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky, Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali, the Checkbook and the Cruise Missile with Arundhati Roy, and many others.

For more information visit www.alternativeradio.org.

Local Events with David Barsamian:

Tuesday November 15
12:00pm Report back from the World Tribunal on Iraq and Another World is Possible: Public Power in the Age of Empire. Glendale Community College, Kreider Hall. 1500 North Verdugo Road, Glendale, CA 91208

Tuesday November 15
5:00-7:00pm, Another World is Possible: Public Power in the Age of Empire UCLA, Bunche Hall 6275

Wednesday November 16
2:00-4:00pm (arrive 1:30) Media, Propaganda & Iraq. UCSB MultiCultural Center

Wednesday November 16
7:00-9:00pm Another World is Possible: Public Power in the Age of Empire. Faulkner Gallery of the Santa Barbara Main Library 40 East Anapamu Street

Thursday November 17
2:00-5:00, Cal State University Long Beach. Media, Propaganda & Iraq and Another World is Possible. Multi-media Center, MM-100, South Campus

Thursday November 17
7:00-9:00, Viento Y Agua Gallery & Coffeeshop 4007 East 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814

Friday November 18
7:00 pm with Sonali Kolhatkar. Another World is Possible: Public Power in the Age of Empire. Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Westminister Chapel, 3300 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA 90010 (at Berendo)

Soldiers Speak Out
GUESTS: Barbara Trent, academy award winning documentary film maker

In 1992, film maker Barbara Trent made a riveting documentary about the US invasion of Panama, called “The Panama Deception.” It revealed the true motivation for the invasion and how the mainstream media collaborated with the US government to censor information and deceive the American public. Barbara Trent went on to win an Academy award for the documentary and today we hear from her about her newest film, focusing on the current US-led injustice in Iraq. Soldiers Speak Out premieres tonight in Los Angeles. It features many voices of US soldiers who have served in Iraq and are growing increasingly disillusioned with the war.

For more information, visit: www.peacenow.us and www.empowermentproject.org.

Barbara Trent’s Film “Soldiers Speak Out” will be showing on:

Tuesday, November 15th
6:30 PM reception & refreshments, 7:30 PM presentation & screening, Music by Tina Karras & Andy Manoff. The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St., Santa Monica, CA 90405 For more information call: Ben Swets (310) 581-6772

Friday, November 18th
Pasadena, California. Fundraiser and release screening of “Soldiers Speak Out” with guest speaker Abdul Henderson – Iraq Veterans Against the War and International Peace Leaders from France, Philippines, Zimbabwe and India. Music by Tina Karras. 6:30 PM reception & refreshments, 7:30 PM presentation & screening. Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103. RSVP to Dick Smoak: rsmoak4@yahoo.com

Saturday, November 19th
Los Angeles, California Presentation of “Soldiers Speak, Out” at the Students and Educators to STOP THE WAR Fall Conference in Los Angeles , Manual Arts High School, 4131 S. Vermont, Los Angeles, CA. 90037, 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., find more information at www.StoptheWarConference.org

Alito’s Anti-Abortion Credentials Revealed
GUESTS: Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL, Pro-Choice America, author of the forth coming book, “With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life spent protecting the right to choose.”

Documents released yesterday by the White House Ronald Reagan Library reveal some opinions of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito that opponents of his nomination are sure to find troubling. Among those documents released, The Washington Times, obtained and first reported that in 1985 Samuel Alito wrote that, “The constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” and that such was something that he personally believed very strongly in. Years later, in 1992, Alito voted in the case of Casey vs. Planned Parenthood to uphold a Pennsylvania law that required women to notify their husbands prior to having an abortion. On the ruling, Alito then said that such a provision was not an “undue burden.” These opinions expressed in the released memos and documents are sure to be among the questions raised when confirmation hearings begin in January.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” – Florynce R. Kennedy, 1973