May 17 2007
GUEST: Hans Bennett, journalist based in Philadelphia, co-founder of Journalists for Mumia
Award winning journalist and political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal has been in prison for over two decades for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, a white police officer in Philadelphia. Now, after decades of litigation, Mumia’s case will be heard by the …
May 17 2007
GUEST: John Laun, President of the Colombia Support Network, and an attorney
Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe was forced to defend his government yesterday over newly revealed clandestine wiretapping of his opponents and journalists. A jailed former top paramilitary commander testified that he met Uribe’s vice president and his defense minister in the 1990s, …
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May 17 2007
GUEST: Marie Staunton, Chief Executive at Plan International UK
Millions of girls and young women are victim to staggering gender inequalities across the world according to a new report from Plan International. Published in time for the United Nation’s International Day of the Family, the report, “Because I’m a Girl: The …
May 17 2007
… about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas .
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May 17 2007
“It is not gender which is destroying our culture…. it is our interpretations of culture which has destroyed gender equality” — Cambodian civil society group …
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May 16 2007
GUEST: David Rose, is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has worked for the Guardian, The Observer, and the BBC. He has written several books including Guantanamo, and his latest, “The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice.”
In the mid 1970s, in Columbus, Georgia, seven elderly white …
May 16 2007
GUEST: Frederick Clarkson, journalist and author who has written about the religious right for 25 years., and is the editor of Talk to Action, a national interactive blog site about the religious right
Reverend Jerry Falwell, one of the principle architects of the rise of the religious right, died yesterday of …
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May 16 2007
GUESTS: John Foran, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Ellen McClure, 2nd year student at UCSB, on hunger strike
UC Santa Barbara students engaged in a hunger strike will head north today to San Francisco to attend a meeting of the UC Regents. They will be there …
May 16 2007
… about The Sedition Act of 1918 .
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May 16 2007
“You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead — just play with this — if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world — and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded — we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.” -– Bill Hicks …
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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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