Mar 16 2007
… on the 1889 Hurricane in Samoa.
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Mar 16 2007
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” — Robert Anthony …
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Mar 15 2007
GUEST: Mateo Martinez, political analyst and philosopher, with the Center for the Study of Subaltern Thought, based in Ecuador
Yesterday, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced that he may call a special session of Congress to end a political crisis that has prevented the legislature from meeting. Correa recently approached the nation’s Electoral Tribunal to …
Mar 15 2007
GUEST: Vanessa Dixon, member of the Parents and Citizens Committee to Stop Medical Experimentation, based in Washington DC
Last June, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new vaccine produced by pharmaceutical giant, Merck, called Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccination aimed at preventing a viral form …
Mar 15 2007
GUEST: Mark Bryan, artist
Pictures in my Head is the name of an art exhibit currently showing at Carlotta’s Passion Fine Art in Eagle Rock, featuring several dozen paintings and works of art by Mark Bryan, with the theme of ridiculing today’s political figures like Bush, Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld, and in general …
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Mar 15 2007
… on the LAPD Raid of a Los Angeles radio station.
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Mar 15 2007
“A great artist… must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.” — Goethe
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Mar 14 2007
GUEST: Mahmoud Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and International Affairs, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University
On Monday, a UN human rights mission accused the Sudanese government of atrocities and characterized the situation in Darfur as a “gross and systematic violation of …
Mar 14 2007
GUESTS: Dr. Homa Hoodfar, Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, currently the interim coordinator of Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Nikki Akhavan, Board member of US Chapter of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Interventions in Iran
Two prominent Iranian feminists remain incarcerated following their arrest on March 4th, 2007 for participating …
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Mar 14 2007
GUEST: David Bacon, labor journalist and photographer, author of “Children of NAFTA,” and programmer at KPFA, Pacifica Radio
Last week the California Nurses Association and its national arm, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, joined the AFL-CIO, after the national labor federation announced its official support of a single payer health care system. The CNA …
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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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