Dec 20 2006
GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus
One week ago today, Florida death row inmate, Angel Diaz, was executed by lethal injection. It took him more than half an hour to die. The botched execution required a second dose of chemicals to be administered after the first injection punctured Diaz’s …
Dec 20 2006
GUESTS: Katherine Daniels, Trade Policy Advisor with Oxfam, Viji Rangaswami, Associate with the Trade Equity and Development Project with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The US Congress has just amended and extended the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) that allows 38 African countries to export goods to the US market. AGOA was enacted …
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Dec 20 2006
GUEST: Thandisizwe Chimurenga, writer, activist, and the Director of the Ida B. Wells Institute.
The [lack of] Crisis in Black Leadership
A lot has been said recently – and continues to be said – about the crisis in Black leadership. While I do agree with most of the critiques raised by various voices, I cannot help but notice …
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Dec 20 2006
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.” — Eleanor Roosevelt …
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Dec 20 2006
… on the The American Invasion of Panama
Produced by Radio Rootz.
Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org …
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Dec 19 2006
… on the A Little History of the US in Hawaii
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Dec 19 2006
GUEST: Rick MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, award winning journalist and author
New York Senator Hilary Clinton has begun actively considering a presidential run, reaching out to her colleagues in the New York delegation and asking for their advice and support. With the post-mid-term election euphoria settling down, Democrats are beginning a dialogue …
Dec 19 2006
GUEST: Ann Louise Colgan, Director of Policy and Communications at Africa Action
It has been over two years since the U.S. government labeled the systematic violence in Darfur, Sudan, genocide. Last Wednesday, Africa Action released a major new report entitled, “Leveraging New International Action on Darfur,†as the genocidal death toll continues to mount …
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Dec 19 2006
GUEST: Dortell Williams, inmate at Lancaster State Prison
Dortell Williams, an inmate at Lancaster State Prison, filed this commentary on Darfur, Sudan called “a rolling genocide.” …
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Dec 19 2006
GUEST: Marty Keegan, Organizer with GCC/IBT (Graphics Communications Conference with the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters)
The Teamsters Union is attempting to organize workers in the Press room of the Los Angeles Times. The Times’ new publisher David Hillier, is openly anti-union and has begun organizing against the Teamsters by taking to the internet. On …
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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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