Aug 23 2007
GUESTS: Ben Wizner, Attorney with the ACLU’s National Legal Department, Koy Hordynski, UCSC Students Against War
Organizers are applauding Tuesday’s announcement by the Department of Defense that it will shut down its controversial domestic spying database. TALON, or the Threat and Local Observation, Notice, was created in 2002 by then-Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. The official rationale for …
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Aug 23 2007
GUEST: Coral Lopez, Spokesperson for Bienestar
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Victoria Arellano charges that she was denied vital medical care at an immigration detention center in San Pedro. Arellano, an undocumented transgender woman set to be deported, suffered from HIV-AIDS while detained. Her condition significantly deteriorated while in custody until she …
Aug 23 2007
GUEST: Solomon Rivera, Executive Director of Californians for Justice, Long Beach
Californians for Justice are leading a federal suit against the U.S. Government. The lawsuit argues that teachers are not being prepared to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act. Signed by Bush in January 2002, No Child Left Behind focused on standardized testing …
Aug 23 2007
… aboutThe 24th infantry in Houston, Texas.
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Aug 22 2007
“What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?” — Eric Chivian …
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Aug 22 2007
GUEST: Dr. Marcy Newman, Co-founder of the Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign and a Professor of English at Boise State University
This week marks three months since fighting began, fueled by U.S.-made weapons, at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Northern Lebanon. Lebanon houses the largest number of Palestinian refugees as they make up over 10 …
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Aug 22 2007
GUEST:Rick Perlstein, Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future
Efforts to find six coal miners in Utah were suspended indefinitely as officials cautioned that underground rescue efforts had become too dangerous. Three rescue workers were killed last Thursday when a tunnel they were digging caved in. Bob Murray, co-owner of the Crandall Canyon Mine, told relatives …
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Aug 22 2007
GUESTS: Azibuke Akaba, Technical Consultant for Communities Dealing with Environmental Racism, Zoe Chafe, researcher with World Watch and co-author of the report, “Beyond Disasters:Creating Opportunities for Peace
Hurricane Dean hit landfall yesterday as a category five storm with winds upwards of 165 miles per hour. It has been measured as one of the top 10 Atlantic hurricanes …
Aug 22 2007
… about Huey P. Newton.
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Aug 21 2007
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace – Buddha …
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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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