Aug 14 2007
GUESTS: Raj Nayak, Attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University
Last month the Federal minimum wage was increased from $5.15 an hour to $5.85 an hour. This increase, although small, was the first one in over a decade and applies to workers across the nation. However, one class of workers are …
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Aug 14 2007
… about Zachariah Walker a black factory worker.
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Aug 14 2007
“It is but equity…that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.” — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
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Aug 13 2007
GUEST: Dean Baker, Co-Director of Center of Economic and Policy Report, author of the report, “Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets”
Last Friday, the Federal Reserve Bank issued a statement saying that it would seek to “facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets.” Wall Street followed the statement and cash infusions from …
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Aug 13 2007
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today we’ll hear part 2 of Rahul’s thoughts on Impeachment.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Aug 13 2007
GUESTS: Faith Santilla, GABRIELA member and media liason, Ivy Quicho, Chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of GABRIELA Network
On August 5th, Dr. Annalisa Enrile was prevented from returning to Los Angeles from the capital city of the Philippines. Dr. Enrile, who is the national chairperson of the GABRIELA Network, was informed that she was …
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Aug 13 2007
GUEST: Michelle Mehta, Attorney with the Coastal Water Quality Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
A new study of beaches in the US reveals that in 2006 there were a record number of days when beaches were considered too unsafe to swim in. In fact, according to the Natural Resources and Defense Council, which conducted the …
Aug 13 2007
… about Black WWII veterans and civil rights activists.
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Aug 13 2007
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” — Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 …
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Aug 10 2007
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* Iraqi Deaths Due to US Invasion Approach 1 Million
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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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