Sep 14 2006
GUEST: Aisha Bain, Mongolia Program Associate at Global Rights
Over the past year, the government of Mongolia has passed laws increasing taxes and state ownership in the country’s mining industry. Most recently, a law passed on August 27th, allows the Mongolian government to acquire up to thirty four percent of private mining projects. The …
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Sep 14 2006
GUEST: Spencer Mandell, Director of “God’s Open Hand”
One of the promises made by the Bush administration after 9/11 was to bring democracy to Afghanistan, a country the US invaded less than a month after the attacks in New York and DC. Five years later, Afghanistan is in flames, with an epidemic …
Sep 14 2006
GUEST: Jodie Evans, Co-Founder of Code Pink
Code Pink, one of the leading anti-war organizations in the country, has just launched a new campaign called Give Peace a Vote, asking people to sign up and declare that they will not vote for any pro-war candidates in upcoming elections. The Voters pledge consists …
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Sep 14 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 Ojai
5 to 7 PM
Libbey Park,at the …
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Sep 14 2006
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” — Noam Chomsky …
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Sep 13 2006
GUESTS: Shahid Raja, taxi worker based in Southern California, Farhana Shahid, his wife, Imam Junaid, Imam of Inglewood Mosque
The Discrimination and National Security Initiative at Harvard University released a study earlier this week entitled, ‘We are Americans Too: A Comparative Study of the Effects of 9/11 on South Asian Communities.’ The report looked …
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Sep 13 2006
GUEST: Kim Alexander, founder and president of the California Voter Foundation, a non-partisan organization
On Tuesday, November 7th, California voters will head to the polls to vote on a number of propositions and office races. California’s November ballot includes 13 propositions, 7 statewide Constitutional Office races, one U.S. Senate race, 53 contests for …
Sep 13 2006
GUEST: William N. Eskridge, co-author of “Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? What We’ve Learned from the Evidence”
Republicans are gearing up for this year’s Congressional elections by focusing on several issues to rally ultra conservative voters around. They include the all-time favorite – abortion, as well as immigration, and same-sex marriage. Today …
Sep 13 2006
“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs — in religion, literature, colleges and schools — democracy in all public and private life” — Walt Whitman …
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Sep 12 2006
GUEST: Robert Scheer, nationally syndicated columnist, author of seven books and a co-host of the political radio program “Left, Right and Center,” was a writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Times for many years, currently a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and editor in chief of Truthdig.com
Commemorating the fifth anniversary …
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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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