Apr 06 2007
GUESTS: Greg Conger, President of UFCW Local 324, Monica Garcia, served on the Commission on the Los Angeles Grocery Industry and Community Health, LAUSD Board member
Nearly three years after a large-scale strike by grocery workers in Southern California, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers are bracing for another possible strike. Instead of …
Apr 06 2007
GUEST: Larry Gross, Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Survival
Last Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved an increase in relocation assistance for tenants evicted for condominium conversions. After hours of debate, a two tier plan was approved by a vote of nine to five, which would double some existing fees while nearly …
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Apr 06 2007
GUESTS: Yael Korin, a Jewish Israeli, and co-founder of the Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid and co-founder of Women in Black LA, Sherna Gluck, member of the KPFK Local Station Board and member of the SWANA Collective which produces Radio Intifada
For few weeks now, several corporate donors who made small food donations to …
Apr 06 2007
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is about how banks steal black children’s futures. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.
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Apr 06 2007
… about The Black Hawk War.
Produced by Radio Rootz.
Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org. …
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Apr 06 2007
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” — Paulo Freire …
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Apr 05 2007
GUEST: Marcos McPeek-Villatoro, novelist and poet and former KPFK programmer of Shelf Life
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has proposed to tear down twenty-two homes in a Van Nuys neighborhood to make way for the construction of Elementary School 14. This new school would be part of LAUSD’s larger …
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Apr 05 2007
GUEST: Peter Miller, director and co-producer of Sacco and Vanzetti
Eighty years ago this year, two Italian immigrant anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were executed following one of the most controversial court cases in American history. Charged with the robbery and murders of two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts, many historians …
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Apr 05 2007
GUEST: Laila Al Arian, Sami Al Arian’s daughter
A former Computer Science professor at the University of South Florida been imprisoned since February 2003 on charges of providing material support to a group called Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Dr. Sami Al Arian was originally scheduled to be released and deported this month. But …
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Apr 05 2007
… called The Mayflower Leaves the Plymouth Colony.
Produced by Radio Rootz.
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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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