Aug 23 2006
GUEST: Sydney Levy, Program Director at Media Alliance
On Thursday, August 31st, there will be a Federal Communications Commission town-hall meeting in Los Angeles to discuss diversity and localism in the media. FCC Chair and Republican Party member Kevin J. Martin has recently launched a formal review of media ownership rules. Martin favors …
Aug 23 2006
GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on “A Shia Spring?”
Listen to Mumia’s audio commentaries at www.prisonradio.org. …
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Aug 23 2006
GUESTS: James Abourezk, Lebanese American lawyer and former US Senator
An Israeli soldier was killed and three others wounded in southern Lebanon earlier today when their tank drove over a land mine. It was the first official Israeli casualty since an August 14th cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanon. Israel has already …
Aug 23 2006
GUESTS: Jaime Cruz, Coordinator, National Chicano Moratorium Committee, Elizabeth Chavez, MEChA and student at East LA College
This Saturday, activists are planning for a march and rally in East Los Angeles in commemoration of the Chicano Moratorium. Thirty-six years ago, on August 29th 1970, the largest ever anti-war demonstration organized and attended by Chicanos in the …
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Aug 23 2006
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.†– Malcolm X. …
Aug 22 2006
GUESTS: Jen Angel, publisher at Clamor Magazine, Keely Savoie, freelance journalist
Known as “one of America’s most progressive T-shirt companies,” American Apparel is a corporation that brands itself as “vertically integrated.” This means that in an era of outsourcing and Third World sweat shops, American Apparel keeps every stage of production in …
Aug 22 2006
GUEST: Jerry Flanagan, Healthcare policy director, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
On August 9th, in Sacramento, hundreds rallied at the Capitol building in support of The California Health Insurance Reliability Act or CHIRA. Introduced by State Senator Sheila Kuehl, a Democratic representative from Santa Monica, Senate Bill 840 as CHIRA is also known, …
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Aug 22 2006
GUEST: Amit Srivastava, Coordinator of the India Resource Center, Director of Global Resistance
Persistent allegations of pesticide contamination in Coke and Pepsi products in India have led to partial bans on the products in a quarter of India’s states. A complex legal battle to overturn the bans is only just beginning. …
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Aug 22 2006
“If tens of millions of Americans go without basic and preventative care, we all pay the bill when their health problems turn into complex medical emergencies necessitating expensive and specialized treatment. And if we condone a health care system that contributes to the formation of an untouchable caste of the ill, infirm, and marginally employed, all of us, as a society, will lose the right to feel pride in the democratic values that we claim …
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Aug 21 2006
GUEST: Niki Akhavan, Board member of the US Chapter of “Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Interventions in Iran,” and a media analyst.
Iran is due to respond tomorrow to an offer for a deal in exchange for suspending it’s uranium enrichment program. Uranium enrichment makes fuel for reactors but can also produce the raw …
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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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