Aug 25 2006
GUEST: Glen Ford, Radio BC
U.S. Foreign Policy Abets AIDS at Home
Twin stories surfaced this month, although much of the public did not make the connection. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced that African-Americans account for half of all new cases of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. And, officials now admit that Afghanistan’s …
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Aug 25 2006
GUEST: Felipe Aguirre, Vice Mayor of Maywood
This Saturday, anti-immigrant groups such as Save Our State and the Minutemen Project will be holding a rally in Maywood to protest the city’s decision to become a sanctuary for the undocumented. Counter- demonstrators plan to gather in front of Maywood’s City Hall to denounce the presence of the …
Aug 25 2006
GUEST: Fernando Garcia, Director of the Border Network for Human Rights based in El Paso, Texas
When Congress returns to session just after Labor Day, it only has five weeks left before recessing for the mid-term elections in November. That gives lawmakers a short time to enact an immigration reform bill. The Republican controlled House …
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Aug 25 2006
GUEST: Shreema Mehta, Reporter with New Standard News, and a member of the New Standard News Collective
As a new school year approaches, many students will be waiting in long lines at college bookstores buying assigned textbooks for their college courses. College textbooks are a necessary and an increasingly expensive part of higher education. According …
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Aug 25 2006
“Today the division between the majority of “us†and “them†is still intact. This country does not want to acknowledge its walls or limits, the places some people are stopped or stop themselves, the lines they aren’t allowed to cross. . . . [But] the future belongs to those who cultivate cultural sensitivities to differences and who use these abilities to forge a hybrid consciousness that transcends the “us†vs. “them†mentality and will carry …
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Aug 24 2006
GUESTS: Joe Newlin, organizer with California Nurses Association, Pauline Kiwasz, a Registered Nurse at UCLA, with the California Nurses Association
“Nurses vs. Arnold: Terminating Political Corruption” is a new film that documents the political struggles of the California Nurses Association against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Executive-produced by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, “Nurses …
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Aug 24 2006
GUESTS: Roslyn Barnett, Senior Scientist and Director of the Community, Families, and Work Program at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Jennifer Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media and News
An online article on Forbes magazine entitled “Don’t Marry Career Women,” has caused a firestorm of controversy and debate in the …
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Aug 24 2006
GUEST: Jim Mangia, spokesperson for IndependentVoice.org and former National Secretary of the Reform Party
Late last Monday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a deal with legislators to raise California’s minimum wage by $1.25 over the next year and a half. Many analysts perceive the Governor’s move as an attempt to curry support from democratic and independent …
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Aug 24 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 Claremont
4:30–6 p.m.
On the corner of Indian Hill Boulevard & Arrow Highway
the information line is (909) 399-3451 or …
Aug 24 2006
“My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: “We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.” — Mother Jones
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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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