Jun 15 2006
Just War and the Logic of Withdrawal
GUESTS: Howard Zinn, People’s Historian, and Anthony Arnove, author of “Iraq, the Logic of Withdrawal.”
After his surprise 6 hour trip to Iraq, President Bushyesterday held a press conference in which he sought to lower expectations of what should be defined as success in Iraq. According to the Financial Times, he sketched out a …
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Jun 14 2006
“Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls “growth” is really a form of theft from nature and people.” – Vandana Shiva …
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Jun 14 2006
History, Creativity and Compassion
GUESTS: Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva
Yesterday’s tragic eviction of farmers at the South Central Farm has left activists stunned. After months of efforts to save the farm, real estate developer Ralph Horowitz chose to destroy a farm with 14 years of cultivation. Horowitz told the Los Angeles Times, “If the farmers got a donation and said, `We …
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Jun 13 2006
From the introduction of “War is a Force that Gives us Meaning,”
“The only antidote to ward off self destruction and the indiscriminate use of force is humility and, ultimately compassion” – Chris Hedges
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Jun 13 2006
South Central Farmers Being Evicted!
GUEST: Aura Bogado, KPFK Programmer, FSRN Anchor
The Sheriff’s Department has come to evict the South Central Farmers. They are at the gate and are in the process of forcibly removing people from the farm. There are reportedly 20 people who have chained themselves in a last stand. A representative of the farmers, Tezozomoc made a statement earlier this morning …
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Jun 13 2006
The Sheriff’s Department has come to evict the South Central Farmers! They are at the gate and are in the process of forcibly removing people from the farm.
The farmers are calling on people to go to the Mayor’s office:
200 North Spring Street, Room 303
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Mayor’s Staff Roster
213/978-0600 (Phone)
213/978-0750 (Fax)
For the last …
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Jun 12 2006
KPFK’s Spring 2006 fund drive begins Tuesday June 13th through June 25th. We always need volunteers in the morning hours to help answer phones. If you live in the So. Cal area, join us at 3729 Cahuenga Blvd West, North Hollywood.
We also need your financial support. Call us at 818-985-KPFK to make a pledge!
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Jun 12 2006
“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time†– Karl Marx
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Jun 12 2006
GUEST: Kat Aaron, co-director of Radio Rootz, a radio training program for New York youths that is also a part of the “No Hate Radio,†campaign.
This May, popular New York DeeJay and Clear Channel employee Troi Torain was fired after making a series of racist and violent on-air remarks against a rival DeeJay. …
Jun 12 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 Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi.
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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