Dec 08 2006
GUEST: Carla Garapedian, filmmaker of Screamers
“Screamers†is the title of a new documentary film by Carla Garapedian that features all-Armenian rock band System of a Down and explores the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Through interviews with Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, and genocide survivors such as System lead singer Serj Tankian’s 96 …
Dec 08 2006
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is about Katrina Victims. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Dec 08 2006
GUEST: Terrol Williams, Katrina survivor, member of ACORN
Yesterday, members of the New Orleans based community organization, ACORN, held press conferences in three different cities to call on FEMA to comply with a recent federal ruling. The ruling orders the immediate restoration of housing aid to Hurricane Katrina and Rita survivors. In fact, the …
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Dec 08 2006
“If nations are allowed to commit genocide with impunity, to hide their guilt in a camouflage of lies and denials, there is a real danger that other brutal regimes will be encouraged to attempt genocides. Unless we speak today of the Armenian genocide and unless the Government recognizes this historical fact, we shall leave this century of unprecedented genocides with this blot on our consciences.” –Caroline, Baroness Cox, House of Lords, April 1999
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Dec 08 2006
Alternative ways to buy holiday gifts while preserving your conscience this weekend:
1. KPFK will have its Annual Parking Lot Sale, tomorrow, Saturday December 9th, from 10 am to 2 pm at 3729 Cahuenga Blvd West in North Hollywood. There will be Books, CDs, DVDs, and more, available for sale. All sales will benefit KPFK directly. Again, that’s this Saturday December 9th from 10 am to 2 pm at 3729 Cahuenga Blvd West in North …
Dec 07 2006
GUESTS: Nancy De Los Santos, co-writer and co-producer of Lalo Guerrero – the Original Chicano, Iris Almaraz, Director and writer of La Puta, Katynka Martinez, Festival Director
The second Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film Extravaganza will be held this weekend from December 8th to the 10th. Films will be screened in various categories such as …
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Dec 07 2006
GUEST: Hans Bennett, Philadelphia based photo-journalist who has been documenting the free-Mumia movement
Nearly 25 years ago, on December 9th, 1981, a young journalist named Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested in Philadelphia in connection with the murder of a police officer. Abu-Jamal was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death a year later, …
Dec 07 2006
GUEST: Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), and co-host of Counterspin
Recently WMAL Radio host Jerry Klein suggested on his show that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band. Claiming later in the show that he was …
Dec 07 2006
“I try to speak because we’ve been silent as women for so long, especially Latinas, to the point of self-destruction.” – Sandra Cisneros …
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Dec 06 2006
GUESTS: Lucia Quila Colo, co-founder of the National Widows Council of Guatemala (CONAVIGUA) and Jorge Morales Toj, a member of the Peasant Unity Committee (CUC) and founder of the Mayan Youth Movement, and the Movement of Indigenous Migrants to Guatemala City, Angela Thielen, volunteer interpreter
It has been nearly a decade since the …
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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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