Mar 06 2006
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she backs the education budget proposed by the President. The budget seeks to cut funding by more than $3-billion. Bush’s proposal also targets low-income education programs for de-funding. Funding cuts in arts and education have serious repercussions on …
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Mar 03 2006
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Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson on Bush’s visit to India and the US-India Nuclear Agreement
A former US Marine calls for action against genocide in Darfur.
Anti-war Iraq veterans, soldiers families, and activists speak out against war. We’ll hear …
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Mar 03 2006
GUESTS: Mitch Jesseritch, journalist covering national politics for Pacifica Radio and Free Speech Radio News, Nancy Talanian, Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee
The US Senate has passed legislation renewing the USA Patriot Act. The Thursday vote was 89-10. This ended an impasse on Capitol Hill that lasted months, virtually guaranteeing …
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Mar 03 2006
GUEST: Former Marine Captain Brian Steidle, the U.S. representative to the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Sudan
600 Nigerian troops are being airlifted to Darfur, Sudan, to bolster peace keeping operations. The move is part of the growing international pressure to help end the deadly conflicts that has claimed over 200,000 lives in the …
Mar 03 2006
Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator
The Black Commentator is an online political magazine bringing you commentary, analysis and investigation from a black perspective. Today’s commentary is about US policy in Iraq.
The Black Commentator is online at www.blackcommentator.com.
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Mar 03 2006
GUEST: Ed Rampell, The People’s Film Historian, and author of “Progressive Hollywood, A People’s Film History of the United States.â€
The 78th Annual Academy Awards will take place this Sunday, March 5th. Among the many major award categories are numerous progressive films in contention. In the Best Picture category, “Good Night and Good Luck,†…
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Mar 02 2006
GUEST: Arun Gandhi, Co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Gandhi’s grandson
President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh struck a nuclear deal during Bush’s visit to India. The deal could transform relations between the two countries. For the US to acknowledge India’s status as a nuclear military power, is a reversal of three …
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Mar 02 2006
GUESTS: Tim Goodrich, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Pablo Parades, war resistor, Mimi Kennedy, actor, Jackson Browne, musician.
GUESTS: Tim Goodrich, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Pablo Parades, war resistor, Mimi Kennedy, actor, Jackson Browne, musician.
Last Saturday February 25th, hundreds of activists gathered at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena to raise awareness of the on-going war in Iraq, …
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Mar 02 2006
GUESTS: Daisy Hernandez is the Senior writer at Color lines Magazine, and Laura Zimmerman is the co-founder and director of the Center for New Words
Women constitute 52 per cent of the world’s population but made up only 21 per cent of people in the news. That’s the conclusion of a recent …
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Mar 01 2006
Nikki Giovanni, award winning poet, Professor of English at Virginia Tech.
Nikki Giovanni is an award winning poet and writer. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. She was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with honors in history from her Fisk University. Since 1987, she has been on the faculty at …
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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