May
02
2008
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GUEST: Minky Worden, Media Director of Human Rights Watch, editor of China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges
With less than a hundred days before the start of the summer Beijing games, the Olympics torch finally made its way back to China. The flame returned to the host country on Wednesday after the …
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May
02
2008
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GUESTS: Ann Kaneko, director of “Against the Grain,” Fatimah Rony, director of “Chant From An Island,” one of four short films collectively called “Chants of Lotus”
The 24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film festival showcases over 160 films and videos from around the world this week, launching the celebration of Asian Pacific …
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May
02
2008
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the entire program
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is on on Iowa and prisons. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
May
02
2008
… about King Leopold’s Establishment of ‘the Congo Free State’
Produced by Radio Rootz.
Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org. …
May
02
2008
“It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” — Kojiro Tomita …
May
01
2008
GUEST: Raj Patel, author of “Stuffed and Starved,” former policy analyst for Food First, researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
Today we examine the global food industry in an effort to understand the international food crisis. Last month Haitians marched …
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May
01
2008
… about Chicago’s May Day march for an 8 hour work day
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Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org. …
May
01
2008
“Against Barbarism, Education. Against Individualism, Solidarity.” — slogan of Brazil’s Landless Peasants’ Movement, the MST: …
