Dec 11 2007
GUEST: Margaret Huang, Director of the US Program, Global Rights
Coinciding with International Human Rights Day, a coalition of more than 250 social justice organizations released a shadow report on discrimination in the United States. Prepared by the activist umbrella group, U.S. Human Rights Network, the study is intended to be a rebuttal to a …
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Dec 11 2007
“There will be no prison which can hold our movement down… The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.” –- Huey Newton …
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Dec 11 2007
… about an assassination attempt against Che Guevara
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Dec 10 2007
GUEST: George Monbiot, columnist for the Guardian newspaper and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
About ten thousand delegates from more than 180 nations are meeting in Bali to attempt to extend the Kyoto Protocol Global Warming Pact beyond 2012. Opposition from the United States, Canada, and Japan is …
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Dec 10 2007
GUEST: Jeremy Woodrum, Director of the US Campaign for Burma
A report issued today by the UN’s Human Rights Council on recent violence in Burma estimates 31 people were killed and 74 forcibly disappeared, with up to 4,000 arrested and 1,000 still detained. Earlier this year in September, images of soldiers in Burma …
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Dec 10 2007
GUEST: Alexandra Russell, Program Director of Free Press
Last week, the Tribune Company media group filed in federal court to challenge a media ownership decision by the Federal Communications Commission. Tribune was granted a permanent waiver on cross-ownership restrictions by the FCC in Chicago, but received temporary waivers in other major cities. …
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Dec 10 2007
… about Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming
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Dec 10 2007
“The gathering of more and more outlets under one owner clearly can be an impediment to a free and independent press.” — Walter Cronkite …
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Dec 07 2007
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* US Intelligence: No Nukes in Iran
* Empire Notes on Venezuela’s Referendum Defeat
* Pakistan: Turmoil in Lead Up to Elections
* Black Agenda Report on the Sub-Prime Housing Bubble
* Crisis Continues in Somalia
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Dec 07 2007
GUEST: Marjorie Cohn, author of the new book “Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law.” She is also a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case involving the rights of detainees being held …
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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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