March 8 • Thursday

There will be a screening of the documentary, “Maquiliapolis” (“City of Factories”) about impoverished women in Mexico who organize around factories. Presented by the Conscientious Projector. 7 PM to 9:30 PM. Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond, Pasadena. (626) 792-4941. For more information, email poertel@aol.com.

March 10 • Saturday

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a screening of the film “View from a Grain of Sand”, an intimate portrait …

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GUEST: Yifat Susskind, Communications Director at MADRE

Earlier this week, a new report on gender based violence in Iraq was released during the 51st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Released just before International Women’s Day and the soon-to-be fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the report highlights the often overlooked systematic campaign of …

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GUEST: T Kumar, Advocacy Director for Asia and the Pacific, Amnesty International USA

As many as 200,000 women primarily from China and South Korea were forced into sexual slavery to service Japanese soldiers during World War II. The women were euphemistically called “comfort women,” and were forced to serve Japanese soldiers in about 2000 so-called …

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GUEST: William Blum, author of “Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire,” and “Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”

William Blum former State Department employee turned US foreign policy critic, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking work, “Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World …

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… on the 1906 US Military Massacre in the Phillipines.

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“Perhaps Bush’s speeches about bringing democracy to Iraq made people in the US feel better about the war. But the US has only replaced Saddam’s secular tyranny with an Islamist tyranny. Iraqi women are paying the heaviest price for this and genuine democracy is still a distant dream.” — Houzan Mahmoud …

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GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, author of “Debating Race”

According to Cornel West, author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters, “Michael Eric Dyson is the most courageous and visionary public intellectual on the scene today. He exemplifies a profound commitment to social justice and a genuine love of black people, especially poor black people. In short, he is a rare kind …

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“Action wedded to analysis becomes redemptive movement.” — Michael Eric Dyson from “Debating Race” …

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… on the 1932 River Road Massacre.

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Speech by Ghanian President Kwame Nkrumah to the United Nations in 1960. Courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the independence of the West African state of Ghana. Ghana was the first black African country to obtain independence from colonial rule on March 6th, 1957. It’s first Prime Minister …

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