Jun 12 2006
GUEST: Daniel Hernandez, LA Weekly writer
The largest urban community garden in the country is still under siege. Although it now appears that help may be on the way for the South Central Farm in the form of a promise of $10 million from the Annenberg Foundation. Many activists and celebrities who …
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Jun 12 2006
GUESTS: Asha Srikantiah – Artistic Director of Artwallah, Chee Malabar, with the Himalayan Project, a hip hop duo, Shishir Kurup, Cornerstone Theater
The Seventh Annual Artwallah festival will take place on Saturday June 24th at the Japanese American Community and Cultural Center. Artwallah showcases artistic voices of the South Asian diaspora who often express social and …
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Jun 09 2006
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* Susan George of ATTAC France on french politics in the aftermath of the employment protests
* Tom Wetzel on US Unions and the decline of the labor movement
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Jun 09 2006
GUEST: Yoomi Jeong, Secretary General of the Korea Truth Commission
Talks began earlier this week in Washington DC between US and South Korean negotiators over a Free Trade deal. South Korea, which has the world’s 11th largest economy, has operated on a series of tough economic regulations which US corporations want dismantled. At stake are three major industries: …
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Jun 09 2006
“Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body.†— Thomas Szasz
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Jun 09 2006
GUEST: Tom Wetzel, Board of Directors of the San Francisco Community Land Trust
From June 1st through 6th, dozens of activists and intellectuals from around the country and world gathered at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to discuss vision and strategy for a new and just society, while rejecting sectarian and vanguardist tendancies. Among those present was Tom Wetzel who …
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Jun 09 2006
GUESTS: Michael Kearns, artist and activist, John Powell, recovered crystal meth addict and one of the participants in the play.
The Tina Dance is a theater piece about the crystal methamphetamine epidemic that is sweeping Los Angeles. Meth users often abandon safe sex practices, which puts them at greater risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. …
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Jun 09 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 on the Verichip.
The Black Commentator is online at www.blackcommentator.com.
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Jun 08 2006
GUEST: Susan George, Board Chair of the Transnational Institute, and Vice President of ATTAC, France, author of many books, including “Another World Is Possible If…”
French Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy has backed a new immigration bill that would attract only skilled workers while keeping less skilled ones out of France. The bill has sparked …
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Jun 08 2006
GUEST: Marcos Aguilar, principal of Academia Semillas del Pueblo school
Yesterday, Marcos Aguilar, the Principal of Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a charter school in El Sereno, declared that neither he nor any of his staff were involved in last week’s alleged assault of a KABC reporter. Sandy Wells, a reporter for “McIntyre in the Morning,†visited …
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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