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GUEST: Amy Moy, Associate Vice President of Public Affairs at Planned Parenthood, Golden Gate
Last Wednesday, members of Congress introduced new legislation into the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate that would guarantee women access to birth control. Although an overwhelming majority of women use birth control at some point in their lives, there …
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Jun
08
2007
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GUESTS: Huong Hoang, project coordinator, and Julio Diaz, Angel Tovar, high school students from South LA
As part of the Southern California Library’s V-Map project, youth from ten South Los Angeles area High Schools will lead walking tours of the Vermont corridor neighborhood. The tours, which are open to the public, will connect the …
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Jun
08
2007
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GUEST: Bruce Dixon is a radio commentator and managing editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is on the indictment of Louisiana Congressman Jefferson. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.
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Jun
08
2007
… about George Orwell’s book, “1984”.
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Jun
08
2007
“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes …
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Jun
07
2007
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GUESTS: Becky Dennison Co-Director, and General Dogon, organizer with the LA Community Action Network, O.C. Hasson, eyewitness to the beating
Last Sunday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles, according to numerous witness reports, a group of 4-5 LAPD police officers brutalized a homeless African American woman on the street in Downtown LA. Witnesses state that the …
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Jun
07
2007
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GUESTS: Odalys Cuesta aka Wanda Kruda, member of the Cuban all-female trio, Angela Thielen, Spanish to English interpreter
Considered to be one of the most important groups to emerge from Cuba’s Hip Hop scene, Las Krudas Cubensi, a trio of women rappers, formed in Havana in the year 2000. Since that time, the …
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Jun
07
2007
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GUESTS: Joseph Romm, Executive director and Founder of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, Author of Hell and High Water:Global Warming the Solution and the Politics and What We Should Do, Nick Simmons, member of the International G8 Way
The summit of the Group of 8, or G8, has kicked off …
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Jun
07
2007
… about the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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Jun
07
2007
“There is no true revolution without women” – Las Krudas slogan …