May 18 2006
This was posted on a new media blog that I am a part of. It’s by a group called Women in Media and News. The blog is WIMN’s Voices.
Malalai Joya, the brave 28 year old member of Afghanistan’s parliament is once again making waves. On May 5th, 2006, during a Parliamentary session, one member of Parliament who is a prominent local warl0rd complained about recent criticism of the mujahedin, …
May 18 2006
“There is something quite convenient and discomfortingly familiar about the tendency to blame an allegedly powerful and wealthy group of Jews for the overall direction of an increasingly controversial U.S. policy. Indeed, like exaggerated claims of Jewish power at other times in history, such an explanation absolves the real powerbrokers and assigns blame to convenient scapegoats.” — Stephen Zunes …
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May 18 2006
GUESTS: Becky Bond, political organizer at Working Assets, Maia Ettinger, Vice President of Legal and Customer Affairs at Working Assets.
On the May 10th 2006, USA Today reported that “The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and …
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May 18 2006
GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, and the Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus. He is also the author of “Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism
This week, Palestinians commemorated the 58th anniversary of the Nakba, which marks the founding of the state of Israel …
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May 18 2006
GUEST: Mike Davis, Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine
Today we continue part 2 of our interview with Mike Davis on his new book, Planet of Slums. More than one billion people live in slums in the cities of the Global south. In October 2003, the United Nations Human …
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May 18 2006
Neighborhood activists all over Southern California hold regular peace vigils to end the war in Iraq. Each week we announce just some of the 50 plus vigils that are taking place. Complete listings of all the vigils are available at www.neighborsforpeaceandjustice.org or www.peacevigils.com.
On Fridays in Claremont
4:30–6 p.m.
On the corner of Indian Hill Boulevard & Arrow Highway
the information line is (909) 399-3451 or …
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May 17 2006
“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him … to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, ‘I see no probability of the British invading us’ but he will say to you, ‘Be …
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May 17 2006
GUEST: Laura Carlsen, Director of the International Relations Center Americas Program, based in Mexico City
On Monday May 15th, President Bush announced his plan to deploy 6000 National Guards to the US-Mexico border to “assist the Border Patrol by operating surveillance systems, analyzing intelligence, installing fences and vehicle barriers, building patrol roads, and providing training.” …
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May 17 2006
GUEST: Mike Davis, Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people live in slums in the cities of the Global south. Instead of the so-called Cities of Light as once imagined by urban futurists, much of the 21st century urban world …
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May 17 2006
GUEST: Alberto Taltoa, college student and farmer, Rosa Romero, member of the South Central Farmers Support Committee.
Time is running out for the South Central Farmers community garden on 41st and Alameda. Next Monday May 22nd, will mark the end of a thirty day contractual agreement between developer Ralph Horowitz and the Trust …
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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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