Aug 11 2006
GUEST: David Redmon, film maker of “Mardi Gras: Made in China”
“Mardi Gras: Made in Chinaâ€, is a new award winning documentary on corporate globalization by first-time director David Redmon. The film follows the commodity chain of bead necklaces ubiquitous at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It does so by juxtaposing …
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Aug 11 2006
GUEST: Glen Ford, Radio BC
Today’s Radio BC commentary by Glen Ford is about Cynthia McKinney.
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Aug 11 2006
“The combination of institutionalized injustices, real bad luck, and stunningly incompetent disaster relief heaped relentless hardships on a fragile disapora of households too used to how stress and hardships beget the same. Then they were called out for their names, accused in the press of shooting at their own rescuers, looting their own survival, defamed for rapes that never occurred, ignored for the rapes that did, and in a mythologizing process that is still unfolding, …
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Aug 10 2006
GUEST: John Miller, National Coordinator of the East Timor-Indonesia Action Network
The United Nations recently, in conjuction with the World Bank and other agencies, released a report on East Timor with recommendations on fighting corruption, developing a code of ethics for public officials and on ensuring transparency in government. On …
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Aug 10 2006
GUEST: Courtney Martin, writer and author of the forthcoming “Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters,” due out in Spring 2007
In a new article on Alternet, entitled “Megachurches Court Cool to Attract Teens,” writer Courtney Martin asks the question, “In this climate of isolation and cynicism, how have evangelical megachurches gained such a strong youth following? …
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Aug 10 2006
GUEST: Larry Gross, Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Survival
As affordable apartment buildings in and around Los Angeles continue to be demolished and converted into pricey condominiums, tenant activists, many facing evictions, are calling for a moratorium. By pressuring the Los Angeles City Council to implement a freeze on condo …
Aug 10 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 Burbank
5:30-7pm
on the corner of Palm and San Fernando
the email contact is burbankpeace@sbcglobal.net
On Fridays in Redlands
4:30 to 6pm
On the corner …
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Aug 10 2006
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” – Blaise Pascal …
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Aug 09 2006
GUEST: Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies specializing in the Mideast and in the United Nations
Israel’s Security Cabinet today approved a wider ground war on south Lebanon, despite an imminent vote on a UN Security Council resolution on the conflict. Last night Al Jazeera reported that Hezbollah had killed 11 …
Aug 09 2006
GUEST: Raul Anorve, Executive Director of IDEPSCA, Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, Raul Borbon, Community Organizer with the Asociacion de Padres Pasadena para la Educacion (APPLE), an IDEPSCA Program, and Neidi Dominguez, Youth coordinator for Teens in Action, also an IDEPSCA program
The Wall Street Journal published an article this week on the …
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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