Jul 20 2006
GUESTS: Ann Kaneko, filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles, Jonathan Ritter, Peru specialist who teaches at UC Riverside.
Is freedom of expression a right or a privilege? That is the question put forward by filmmaker Ann Kaneko in her new documentary entitled, “Against the Grain: An Artist’s Survival Guide to Peru.†Kaneko …
Jul 20 2006
“Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.” — Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Jul 19 2006
GUEST: Zama Coursen-Neff, Senior researcher with the children’s rights division at Human Rights Watch
The US-backed Afghan government of Hamid Karzai just approved a proposal to revive the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The proposal came from Afghanistan’s Ulema council of clerics, and will go before the Afghan …
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Jul 19 2006
GUEST: Cheryl L. Noralez, President and Founder of the Garifuna American Heritage Foundation, United
Long before the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” opened to record-breaking box office numbers, indigenous groups raised strong concerns over the film’s racist depiction of the native Carib peoples as cannibals. Prior to production of …
Jul 19 2006
GUEST: Dr. Kevin R. Johnson, associate dean for academic affairs and Mabie-Apallas Public interest Professor of Law and Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis
When the Minuteman Project set off for its 12 city national tour last May, they consciously included stops in predominately Black neighborhoods. Locally, listeners might recall when Black republican Ted Hayes and …
Jul 19 2006
“The major media like its racist projections is to be rejected not consumed for your very patronage gives it life.” — Mumia Abu Jamal
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Jul 18 2006
GUEST: Eqbal Ahmad, prolific writer, intellectual, thinker.
In June 1982, Israeli forces attacked southern Lebanon apparently in retaliation for an assassination attempt against the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Shlomo Argov and artillery attacks launched by the Palestine Liberation Organization. Operation Peace for Galilee would become the longest and most controversial …
Jul 18 2006
GUEST: John Cavanaugh, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies
The annual summit of the leaders of the Group of Eight countries or G8, ended yesterday in St. Petersburg, Russia. The G8 consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, these countries represent about 65% of …
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Jul 18 2006
GUESTS: James Avery, TV and theater actor, Mariette Hartley, actor and activist, Ellen Geer, Artistic Director of the Theatricum Botanicum
Rise Up and Shout is a special one-day only staged benefit reading featuring well-known actors and the words of visionary activists and thinkers in the past and present. Directed by Ellen Geer of The Will …
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Jul 18 2006
“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.†— Andrew Carnegie
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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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