Dec 09 2005
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Will Chile Elect its First Woman President?
Margaret Power, Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and author of “Right Wing Women in Chile.â€
On Sunday, December 11th, Chileans head to the polls to elect a new President. …
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Dec 09 2005
Will Chile Elect its First Woman President?
Margaret Power, Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and author of “Right Wing Women in Chile.â€
This Sunday, December 11th, Chileans will go to the polls to elect a new President. History could be made in that nation, as the leading candidate, Michelle Bachelet, is a woman. …
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Dec 08 2005
Leimert Park Rally to Save Tookie
GUESTS: Reverend James Lawson, Bonnie Williams, ex-gang member
Time is running out for Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the founder of the Crips Gang in Los Angeles, who feels he has redeemed himself through his internationally popular anti-violence books for children. He also created the Internet Project for Street Peace, which connects youth globally to help end violence.”Tookie” …
Dec 07 2005
Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
GUEST: Jacques Leslie, author of “Deep Water”
Today we spend part one of the program on the politics of dams, in terms of the impact of dams on populations and the environment. Older dams in industrialized nations show that dams are seriously hampering fish migration, leading to extinction of species. …
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Dec 06 2005
Sonali Kolhatkar will co-host Uprising with Damu Smith, on Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
We’ll hear the words of Mark Twain, Lohn Lewis, Yuri Kochiyama and others, being read by Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Sandra Oh, etc.
Plus, people’s historian Howard Zinn in …
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Dec 05 2005
Exonerated Death Row Inmate Speaks Out
GUEST: Juan Roberto Melendez, former death row inmate, exonerated in 2003, now serving on the Board of Director of “National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.”
This week, on December 8th, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will hold a clemency hearing for multiple Nobel Prize Nominee Stanley “Tookie” Williams. The hearing will allow two sides to …
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Dec 02 2005
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Robin Lovitt Wins Clemency
GUESTS: Kent Willis, Director of ACLU-Virginia, Jack Payden-Travers, Director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Robin Lovitt would have been the 1000th prisoner to be executed since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Instead his sentence was commuted …
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Dec 02 2005
Repression of Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca
GUEST: Raul Gatica, founding member of CIPO-RFM Party, poet, Angela Thielen-Martin, interpreter
Since 1997, indigenous communities in the south western state of Oaxaca, Mexico, have been facing serious repression and human rights violations by government and paramilitary forces. About 70 percent of Oaxaca’s population is indigenous. One of the most targeted groups is a grassroots, non-violent organization …
Dec 01 2005
California Secretary of State Challenges Diebold Machines to be Hacked
GUEST: Jim March, Investigator with Black Box Voting
Recently the California Secretary of State invited the watchdog group Black Box Voting to test Diebold corporation’s voting machines. Diebold Corporation is notorious for its efforts to squelch the publication of documents indicating serious flaws in its electronic voting systems. The testing …
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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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