May 16 2006
“There is hardly a study in the entire literature which fails to demonstrate that satisfaction in work is enhanced or that other generally acknowledged beneficial consequences accrue from a genuine increase in workers’ decision-making power.” — Paul Blumberg
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May 16 2006
GUEST: Jorge Fernando Garreton, a journalist and correspondent for Free Speech Radio News, live from Santiago, Chile.
For more than two months, in the southern Chilean city of Temuco, three indigenous Mapuches and an activist supporter had been on hunger strike to protest their lenghty sentences. This past Sunday, Juan Carlos Huenulao, brothers Jaime and …
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May 16 2006
GUEST: Meizhu Lui, the Executive Director of United for a Fair Economy, and the lead author of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Divide
For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. The …
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May 16 2006
GUESTS: Fernando Chirino, member of the Worker-Student Alliance, Juan Castillo, Lead Organizer with AFSCME Local 3299
The Student-Worker Alliance of UC Irvine is organizing to improve rights for campus workers. Currently landscapists are outsourced through the company Commercial Landscaping Workers (CLS). Workers who operate the on-campus dining and food facilities are hired through Aramark Corporation. Outsourced …
May 15 2006
“A further effect of state terror [is] to drive many people to join the guerrillas. ..Furthermore, as state terror undermines the opportunities for peaceful organization and meaningful political action, its victims either submit or turn to violence themselves; and as state terror mounts they are likely to lose their popular support because they cannot defend the population and because they may be driven to adopt more brutal methods, either in self-defense or as the advocates …
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May 15 2006
When Mexicans aren’t marching by the tens of thousands in Downtown Santa Ana on May Day, they’re cramming by the hundreds into Libreria Martinez Books and Art Gallery around the corner on Main Street to see famous authors from Mexico. Such was the scene last Thursday, May 11th when Laura Esquivel, acclaimed author of the masterful love story “Like Water for Chocolate,” came to town. Her first …
May 15 2006
GUEST: Armando Navarro, Chicano Studies Professor at UC Riverside and coordinator of the National Alliance for Human Rights
In a national speech planned for this evening, President Bush is expected to announce plans to deploy thousands of National Guard troops to the U.S. –Mexico border. The proposal comes at a time when the President’s approval …
May 15 2006
GUEST: Ahilan Kadirgamar, co-editor of Lines Magazine
A four year ceasefire in the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka has recently ended, giving way to what monitors are calling “a low intensity war.” The LTTE, or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam launched a suicide attack on a Navy gunboat last week that killed its 18-man …
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May 15 2006
GUESTS: Paulina Gonzalez, Regional Coordinator of UNITE Here
As many of us were showering our mothers with Mothers Day treatment, 75 workers at the LAX Hilton hotel were struggling being indefinitely suspended for a Mother’s Day action. Last Wednesday immigrant workers, mostly mothers, highlighted poor working conditions at their hotel and led a delegation asking hotel …
May 15 2006
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Big Brother and You: The Latest from the NSA
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.
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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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