Mar 14 2007
… on the invention of the Cotton Gin.
Produced by Radio Rootz.
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Mar 14 2007
“…freedom and democracy are those values which are not possible to be donated to us via the power of B52 bombers and by a foreign country and spies … Achieving these values is only possible through their conscious, stable, and constant struggle.” — Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), Intl’ Women’s Day Statement, March 8, 2007. …
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Mar 13 2007
GUESTS: Violet Gonzalez, mother of Academia student, member of Padres Unidos of Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Mixpe Ley, community activist
Academia Semillas del Pueblo in El Sereno is an LAUSD charter school that is facing closure. It is one of several schools in the district being evaluated on the basis of charter renewal. …
Mar 13 2007
GUEST: Josef Avesar, founder of the Israeli- Palestinian Confederation
Josef Avesar is an Israeli-born lawyer based in Southern California. But in his spare time, as founder of the Israeli- Palestinian Confederation, Josef tries to convince anyone who will listen, that he has found a potential solution to the Middle-East conflict. Israelis and …
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Mar 13 2007
GUESTS: Rob Kaplowitz, Associate Artistic Director of Relentless Theatre Company, Kittson O’Neill and Tom Lenoci, actors
Jigsaw Nation is a new traveling theater piece by the Relentless Theater Company which seeks answers to the question, “What does American mean to you?†The theater piece is based on man-on-the-street interviews conducted by Gary Winter, Marjorie …
Mar 13 2007
… on the “New Jewel Movement” in Granada.
Produced by Radio Rootz.
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Mar 13 2007
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass …
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Mar 12 2007
GUEST: Nadia Martinez, Policy analyst for Institute for Policy Studies
For the past five days, US President Bush and Venezuelan President Chavez have traveled around Latin America, trading barbs from afar. The two have not set foot in the same country at the same time. While Bush has been defending his administration’s record …
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Mar 12 2007
GUEST: Katherine Albrecht, Founder and Director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) , co-author of SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID
American Express has launched a new method of credit card payment using radio frequency identification technology. Their Express Pay card …
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Mar 12 2007
GUESTS: filmmakers Jauretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal, filmmakers of East of Havana
“East of Havana†is a new documentary by first time filmmakers Jauretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal that explores the Cuban experience through the lens of Hip Hop. The film follows the lives of three Afro-Cuban rappers, Mikki Flow, Magyori, and …
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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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