Mar 27 2008
March 27, 2008
“We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.” –- Marian Wright Edelman …
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Archive for March, 2008
Mar 26 2008
March 27, 2008
* A compelling new documentary called Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
* As election time nears in Zimbabwe, we’ll examine Robert Mugabe’s his toughest challenge yet, and how his opposition is preparing
* As fighting spreads in Basra and Baghdad, we’ll take a look at this dangerous phase in the Iraq war and what it means.
* This week’s Peace Vigil Annoucements …
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Mar 26 2008
The Future of Pakistan
GUEST: Ali Ahsan, lawyer and son of leading dissident Aitzaz Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association; Farhat Haq, Pakistani American teaching at Monmouth College, and expert on political Islam, women and Islam, and contemporary Pakistani Politics
Pakistani President and major US ally, Pervez Musharraf, swore in Yousaf Raza Gilani as the country’s new Prime …
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Mar 26 2008
Children Sentenced to Die in Prison
GUEST: Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama and Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law
Dozens of 13 and 14 year old children have been sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole in this nation. In a new report called Cruel and Unusual, the …
Mar 26 2008
Californians In An Uproar Over Moth Spray
GUEST: Glen Chase, advocate with California Alliance to Stop the Spray and other community groups, has taught environmental economics, statistics, and management at University of Southern California and Cal State Monterey Bay
Earlier this year, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced controversial plans for an aerial pesticide spray aimed at eradicating the light …
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Mar 26 2008
Radical Day in History – 03/26/08
… about the US Naturalization Law of 1790
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Mar 26 2008
March 26, 2008
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
– Edmund Burke, statesman and writer
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Mar 25 2008
March 26, 2008
* The state of post-election Pakistan and what lies ahead for US-Pakistan relations
* A new report documents dozens of cases of 13 and 14 year olds imprisoned in the US for life without the possibility of parole.
* The state of California’s controversial decision to spray cities with a moth pesticide this year
* This week’s edition of “Who Said That?”
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Mar 25 2008
Will CARB Kill the Electric Car Again?
GUEST: Chelsea Sexton, executive director of Plug In America
Perhaps you are one of millions of Californians concerned about smog pollution, global warming, and fossil fuel consumption. Perhaps you’ve seen the acclaimed 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? and are outraged that existing technology for making zero-emission vehicles was squelched by political maneuvering. …
Mar 25 2008
Tibetans Rise Up
GUEST: Alma David, San Francisco organizer with Students for a Free Tibet
The torch lighting ceremony for this year’s Olympics Games were disrupted yesterday in Greece by free-Tibet protesters. The recent mass uprising in Tibet and China’s responding crackdown has been the biggest story surrounding this year’s games, which are being hosted by China. …
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