Feb 28 2007
Road to Guantanamo – DVD – $125
In 2001, four young British men of Pakistani origin, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and their friend, Monir, traveled to Pakistan for a wedding. While there, on a whim, they decided to travel to Afghanistan, which at the time was being bombed by US forces. Once there, they lost their friend Monir in …
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Feb 28 2007
“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and … you allow him to make war at pleasure.” — Abraham Lincoln
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Feb 27 2007
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption – Hard cover book – $100
GUESTS: Antonia Juhasz, visiting scholar at Institute for Policy Studies, and contributer to “A Game as Old as Empire,” Steven Hiatt, editor of “A Game as Old as Empire”
In 2004, a man named John …
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Feb 27 2007
“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” — Howard Thurman …
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Feb 26 2007
Witnesses to War – DVD – $50
Bill Moyers has had a long and varied career that includes a stint as deputy director of the Peace Corps (1961–63). A special advisor to President Lyndon Johnson, Moyers also served as Johnson’s press secretary from 1965 to 1967. But Moyers is best known for his journalism, first in print at the Long Island, …
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Feb 26 2007
“It’s a journalist’s job to be a witness to history. We’re not there to worry about ourselves. We’re there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.” — Robert Fisk …
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Feb 23 2007
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Independent war reporter, Dahr Jamail exposes the brutality of the war in Iraq. Plus, the Black Agenda Report on Iraq’s oil.
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Feb 23 2007
Uprising Celebrates Black History Month
with special guest co-host Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches – $100
From Marcus Garvey to Maya Angelou, the 2 CD/Book set, Say It Plain gives listeners a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, challenging the US to try to live up …
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Feb 23 2007
“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” — Huey Newton
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Feb 22 2007
Special hour on Christian Fundamentalism
with special guest co-host Alan Minsky
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Jesus Camp is a documentary released late last year by film makers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that looks into the often disturbing world of evangelical indoctrination of children in …
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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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