May 11 2006
GUEST: Sonya Lunder, Senior Analyst at Environmental Working Group, who collaborated on the report, “Across Generations.”
Tests conducted by the Environmental Working Group and by the Centers for Disease Control and other researchers, have found that the blood and urine of human beings is generally contaminated by an average of 35 consumer product …
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May 11 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 Atwater
5-6:30pm
Glendale Boulevard and Glenfeliz
the information line is 213/250-5500
On Fridays in Montrose
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Corner of Ocean View and Honolulu …
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May 10 2006
“Our time has come to trade the sorrows of empire for the joys of earth community that our descendents look back on this time as the time of the ‘Great Turning,’ when humanity made a bold choice to birth a new era devoted to actualizing the higher potentials of our human nature. We are the ones we have been waiting for .” — David Korten …
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May 10 2006
GUESTS: Roberto Flores, Eastside Cafe, Vladmir Flores, FSRN Mexican Affairs Correspondent
Last Wednesday May 3rd, Mexican police attempted to block sixty flower vendors from setting up stands in Texcoco. The Mexican Government wants to convert the marketplace into a commercial zone that will include a WalMart. After a clash between residents and the police ensued, the …
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May 10 2006
GUEST: Marie Trigona, member of Grupo Alavio, a Direct Action and Video Collective, correspondent for Free Speech Radio News, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Grupo Alavio is a small collective of working class activists based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They engage in creating videos and taking direct action. The group has been producing audio-visual material …
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May 10 2006
GUEST: David Korten, author of “When Corporations Rule the World,” and “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.”
Ten years ago David Korten wrote a book sounding the alarm of corporate domination. It was called “When Corporations Rule the World,” and it became a best seller. Now, he has written a new book called …
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May 09 2006
“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” — Gloria Steinem
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May 09 2006
GUESTS: Jen Marlowe, Co-Director and Co-Producer of the film, Darfur Diaries, Amna El Hag, Fellow at the Population Leadership Program at University of Washington and former UNICEF youth and adolescent coordinator in Sudan, Tajadeen Niam, representative of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)
After months of on-going negotiations in Abuja, Nigeria, the biggest faction …
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May 09 2006
GUEST: Charon Asetoyer, the Executive Director of the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center on the Yankton Nakota Reservation in South Dakota
In March of this year, the state of South Dakota was cast into the national spotlight when Governor Michael Rounds signed into law, the passage of a nearly total-ban on abortion. In …
May 09 2006
GUESTS: Jessica Rutter, National Organizer and Zack Knorr, Southern California Regional Organizer, members of United Students Against Sweatshops. Zack is also a graduate student at UCRiverside
In a statement released on May 5th, the University of California announced its plan to implement the Designated Suppliers Program proposed by United Students Against Sweatshops. The program sets fair …
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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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