Jan
04
2007
… on the Samuel Colt Guns
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 …
Jan
04
2007
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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Jan
03
2007
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GUEST: Steve Hendricks, freelance investigative reporter and author of “The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country.”
On February 24th 1976, the body of Anna Mae Aquash was discovered in the Badlands of South Dakota. Aquash was a member of AIM, the American Indian Movement. The FBI claimed that …
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Jan
03
2007
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GUEST: Patricia Isasa, torture survivor from Argentina
Luis Gerez, a trial witness in a human rights abuse case in Argentina recently went missing. The case stems from the 1966-73 military dictatorship in Argentina. Two days after he went missing, Gerez was found after having been abducted, badly beaten and burned with cigarettes. Argentine President …
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Jan
03
2007
… on the US and Cuba
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Jan
03
2007
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GUEST: Arash Norouzi, founder of The Mossadegh Project
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that Iran would not retreat from its right to nuclear technology and that a United Nations resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was “invalid.” The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on December 23 to impose sanctions on Iran’s trade in sensitive nuclear …
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Jan
03
2007
“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.†— Robert G. Ingersoll …
Jan
02
2007
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Hosted by Gabriel San Roman and Vanessa Diaz
(Originally aired on KPFK Los Angeles, December 29th, 2006)
GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, author of Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York
Whereas there has been much academic and scholarly attention paid to the Cuban Hip Hop …
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Jan
02
2007
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Hosted by Gabriel San Roman and Vanessa Diaz.
(Originally aired on KPFK Los Angeles, December 29th, 2006)
GUEST: Alexey Rodriguez, Cuban rapper of the hip hop group Obsesion
In the first hour of Cuban Hip Hop: By Any Means Necessary, we presented a number of songs and spoke about Cuban Hip Hop in terms of it being a vehicle for criticism …
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