Aug 03 2007
Guest: Josh Golin, Program Manager with Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Massachusetts’ Public Health Committee recently recommended for approval a bill that would restrict corporate advertising on school grounds. If passed, the “Act Relative to the Public Health Impact of Commercialism in Schools,” would be at the legislative forefront of a growing movement …
Aug 03 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 prisons and the Green Party. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.
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Aug 03 2007
… about the End of the Pullman Strike.
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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Aug 02 2007
GUEST: Nader Sadeghi, Board member of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, and professor of surgery at George Washington University
Earlier this week we discussed the US’s proposed arms deal to several Gulf Arab nations. The plan was designed to hem in the Iranian regime. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice …
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Aug 02 2007
As temperatures soar over a hundred degrees along the US-Mexico border, nearly three hundred Mexicans attempting to cross over have been found dead. The fates of countless other immigrants who have gone missing remain unknown. The trauma to family members of missing immigrants is imagined in …
Aug 02 2007
GUEST: Kelani Key, Outreach Coordinator Trans/gender Variant in Prison Committee (TIP)
Last Tuesday, closing arguments were heard in the case of Alexis Giraldo, a transgender Latina who is suing the California state prison system. Giraldo alleges that in 2006, Folsom State Prison staff members ignored her pleas for help as her cellmate repeatedly raped …
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Aug 02 2007
… about James Baldwin’s birthday.
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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Aug 02 2007
“The Border Patrol got started up in 1924, the year I was born. That’s when Mexicans got to be fugitives on our own land. Whether you lived on this side or that side, all Mexicans got harassed. Sometimes the police would come knocking on your door and pull you out. It didn’t matter if you were born over here or not. When I went to fight in Germany I’d tell people, Here los Anglos are …
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Aug 01 2007
GUESTS: Chris Kromm, Executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies, and founder of Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, Vanita Rogers, Member of the New Orleans Survivors Council from the Lower 9th Ward
Yesterday was the deadline for survivors of Hurricane Katrina to apply for state funds for homeowners. Louisiana’s Road Home grant program …
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Aug 01 2007
GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal. political prisoner, award winning journalist, radio commentator, and author
In a follow-up to our story in May about the case of Mumia Abu Jamal being heard by the 3rd Circuit US Court of Appeals, we present an interview with the man himself. Abu Jamal has been in prison for …
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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