Mar 21 2007
GUESTS: Mark Vallen, local artist, Laura Nader, Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley
On February 1st, the Chancellor of the University of California Berkeley announced an unprecedented $500 million accord with BP, formerly known as British Petroleum. The 10 year partnership will establish the Energy Biosciences Institute to research alternative biofuels and new technologies. Critics …
Mar 21 2007
GUEST: Conn Hallinan, Analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus and a regular columnist for the Daily Planet
This February 7th, President Bush announced the formation of a new US African military command, or AFRICOM. As a Pentagon command for the continent of Africa, AFRICOM will host its huge base of operations in a country yet …
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Mar 21 2007
GUESTS: Ed Varga, FTM Alliance of LA, Bamby Salcedo, Program Manager, Transgeneros Unidas
This coming weekend, hundreds of transgender community leaders and activists from around California will converge on the University of Southern California campus to plan strategies for furthering transgender rights. The gathering is the second annual California Transgender Leadership Summit. …
Mar 21 2007
… on the exploitation of Pocahontas.
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Mar 21 2007
“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise….” — Maya Angelou …
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Mar 20 2007
GUEST: Giuliana Sgrena, Italian journalist and author of Friendly Fire
Yesterday, an Italian journalist, held captive in Afghanistan for two weeks was released. Taliban insurgents took responsibility for the kidnapping of Daniele Mastrogiacomo who works for the newspaper, La Republica. His story is reminiscent of another Italian journalist kidnapped two years ago in Iraq, Giuliana Sgrena. In fact, Sgrena and Mastrogiacomo …
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Mar 20 2007
… on the 1620 formation of the Dutch East India Company.
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Mar 20 2007
“My goal is to contribute to the understanding of a country that remains largely unknown to international public opinion – not least because it is no longer possible to report on Iraq, and in particular, to report independently. None of the sides participating in the armed conflict want witnesses, so all of Iraqi civil society is forced into isolation. An entire population is held hostage by belligerents. For anyone who has been a hostage, it …
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Mar 19 2007
GUEST: Adil E. Shamoo born and raised in Baghdad is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He writes on ethics and public policy
On Saturday, tens of thousands of Americans marched to protest the Iraq war, just days before the fourth anniversary of the US invasion. One of the …
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Mar 19 2007
GUESTS: Nelson Hernandez, 10 th grader at Roosevelt High School
This afternoon students from Roosevelt High School will be joined by other local organizations in an action designed to shut down an Armed Forces Recruitment Station in East Los Angeles. The action is part of a wider nation-wide effort, called the Declaration …
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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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