Aug 16 2007
GUEST: Greg Speeter, Executive Director of the National Priorities Project
A new study released earlier this week found that half of the US’s poor are not getting the food stamps for which they are entitled. The numbers varied state-by-state with the District of Columbia having the highest participation rate at 72%, and Nevada having …
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Aug 16 2007
… about the Mississippi State College Board.
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Aug 16 2007
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” — Helen Keller …
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Aug 15 2007
GUEST: Robert Parry, Investigative journalist with Consortium News, author of several books including “Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W Bush”
In his latest weekly radio address, President Bush characterized his troop surge plan in Iraq as a strategy that is “delivering good results.” Ahead of next month’s congressional progress report on the …
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Aug 15 2007
GUEST: Emira Woods, Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus
Crisis after crisis seems to be striking the southern African nation of Zimbabwe. The rate of state initiated human rights violations has doubled since last year to over 5000 in the first six months of 2007 alone. The violations include torture, assault, detention, intimidation, and even …
Aug 15 2007
GUEST: Carmen Balber, Consumer Advocate at the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
Intel, the computer chip maker recently pulled an advertisement that, to most people, appears obviously racist. The ad was for a new generation of micro-processors and showed six black sprinters crouched in the start position in front of a white …
Aug 15 2007
… about New York City’s White Riots .
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Aug 15 2007
“The biggest problem though out the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomaly.” –- Erik Hansen …
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Aug 14 2007
GUEST: Erin Aubrey Kaplan, contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times
Last Friday, a federal agency concluded that Martin Luther King Jr. – Harbor Hospital in South Central Los Angeles failed to meet minimum patient-care standards. As a result, King-Harbor will lose $200 million dollars in federal funding that constitutes more than half of its …
Aug 14 2007
GUESTS: “Lea” and “Melinna,” two US-based attendees of the 3rd Annual Cuban Hip Hop Symposium
The third annual Cuban Hip Hop Symposium took place late last month at the cultural center in Havana, Cuba. Organized by La Fabri_K, a Cuban Hip Hop collective of groups like Obsesion and Hermanazos, the symposium featured conferences, workshops, and …
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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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