Dec 01 2006
GUEST: Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program at the International Relations Center, based in Mexico
Last Wednesday, protesters with the Oaxaca Peoples’ Popular Assembly, or APPO as it’s known by its Spanish acronym, surrendered control of a university radio station to educational authorities. Radio APPO had been the backbone of the six-month long …
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Dec 01 2006
GUEST: Philippe Diaz, director of “The Empire in Africa”
With all the hype over the new Hollywood film, Blood Diamond, much attention is being paid to the war-torn African nation of Sierra Leone and the corporate ravaging of its diamond mines. But a new documentary, being released simultaneously, gives a different picture. The …
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Dec 01 2006
GUESTS: John Brittain, Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Aimee Baldillo, Director of Programs at the Asian American Justice Center
A half-century after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court is being asked to stop local schools from voluntarily adopting plans to promote racial …
Dec 01 2006
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is called “Endgame for Americans in Iraq.” Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Dec 01 2006
“Let’s concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what’s happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.†Jonathan Kozol, author of “Savage Inequalities,†and ““The Shame …
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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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