Jul 20 2007
… about the Mattachine Society.
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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Jul 20 2007
“With its focus on fighting wars, the Bush administration has insisted just on security. We must focus instead on a just security, because there can be no real security without justice.” — from the proposal, “Just Security,” by Foreign Policy in Focus …
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Jul 19 2007
GUEST: Shannon Young and Vladmir Flores, Correspondents for Free Speech Radio News
Earlier this week, fighting erupted between protestors and police forces in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. At least forty people were injured and twenty police wounded in the worst outbreak of violence since November of last year. The confrontation with police occurred when …
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Jul 19 2007
GUESTS: Carolina Briones, Co-Director of Research with LAANE, and co-author of the report, “Under the Radar”
According to a new report by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, or LAANE airline contracting systems at LAX result in poor security and services. Co-authored by Carolina Briones and Aiha Nguyen, the study, “Under the …
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Jul 19 2007
GUEST: Tim Karr, Campaign Director of Free Press
Last Wednesday, the Board of Directors of Dow Jones voted to approve Rupert Murdoch’s five billion dollar News Corporation bid to acquire the company. The proposed sale still needs the approval of the Bancroft family stockholders who will meet this coming Monday. Descendants of Clarence Barron …
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Jul 19 2007
… about the Sandinista Overthrow of Somoza .
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Jul 19 2007
“The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public’s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment.” — Teresa Stover …
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Jul 18 2007
GUEST: Tom Hayden, Author of “Ending the War in Iraq”
Tom Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society, or “SDS,” and in 1962 helped author its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement. Throughout the sixties, he participated in civil rights work in the South as well as in the black community of Newark. In the late sixties he shifted his …
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Jul 17 2007
GUEST: George Monbiot, weekly columnist for the Guardian Newspaper, author of “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”
THIS IS A RE-BROADCAST
Most KPFK listeners know well the reality and danger of the warming of the planet, and that this global warming is happening as a direct result of human behavior through the burning …
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Jul 17 2007
From his introduction to the US edition of the book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, George Monbiot says, “The rest of the world cannot solve this problem without the United States, and the United States cannot solve it without the rest of the world. We could tear each other to pieces over what has happened in the recent past, but climate change is too important for that.” …
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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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