Apr 12 2007
GUESTS: Glenn Bell, Neighborhood Friends, Samii Taylor, Legislative Advocate with the Windsor Group
Rising rents in Southern California are so high these days that even living in a mobile home has become unaffordable. Rising rents are particularly problematic for the nearly three quarters of mobile home residents who are senior citizens. Mobile home …
Apr 12 2007
… about the Colfax Massacre .
Produced by Radio Rootz.
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Apr 12 2007
“All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.” — Bernard Berenson
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Apr 11 2007
GUESTS: Carmen Ramirez, Vice President, Central Coast Alliance United for A Sustainable Economy (CAUSE), Lupe Anguiano, Volunteer, Protecting our Environment, Maricela Morales, Mayor, Port Hueneme
The California Lands Commission earlier this week voted against a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal off the Southern California coast, after a day-long hearing. The …
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Apr 11 2007
GUEST: Gerardo Reyes, staff member with Coalition of Immokalee Workers
A few weeks ago we informed you about how tomato pickers in Florida were targeting McDonald’s corporation for better working conditions, five years after their victory with Taco Bell. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in South West Florida had planned a Truth Tour in …
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Apr 11 2007
GUESTS: Kim Abeles and Jeff Cain, artists, Constanza Zieytes and Way Spurr-Chen students at Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts
In a project designed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ArtScene Visual Radio (AVR), a hundred high school students have been collaborating with teachers and artists, in particular women artists in Los Angeles to produce research and online multi-media. The …
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Apr 11 2007
… about the other side of Albert Einstein .
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Apr 11 2007
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.†— John W. Gardner
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Apr 10 2007
GUEST: Malalai Joya, the youngest member of the Afghan Parliament, representing Farah Province
Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan killed seven NATO soldiers recently. The act was likely a retaliation for NATO’s biggest anti-Taliban offensive to date. Meanwhile an Afghan freelance journalist and his translator, who had been kidnapped along with Italian journalist Daniele …
Apr 10 2007
GUESTS: John Miller, National Coordinator of East Timor and Indonesia Action Network, Jill Sternberg, Election Observers Coordinator for SOMET (Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor)
Polls closed yesterday in East Timor as one of the world’s youngest nations held its first presidential elections since voting for independence 8 years ago. East Timor formally …
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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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