Jun 03 2008
GUEST: Sameer Dossani, Director of 50 Years Is Enough Network, Organizer with New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice
As the 3-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches in August, guest workers from the Gulf Coast continue a weeks-long hunger strike. For the past three weeks, members of the Indian Workers Congress have demonstrated in front …
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Jun 03 2008
GUEST: Kat Rodriguez, Coordinator of Derechos Humanos in Tucson, Arizona, one of the principle sponsors of the March for Migrants, Hamid Khan, Executive Director, and Joyti Chand, Lead Advocate, with the LA-based South Asian Network
As we head into the summer, triple digit temperatures along the Arizona-Mexico border are expected to result in untold …
Jun 03 2008
GUEST: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, editor of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
The California Secretary of State announced this Monday that an initiative that would once more outlaw same-sex marriage has qualified for this November’s ballot. If passed, the measure would amend the state’s constitution to “provide that only marriage between a man and a …
Jun 03 2008
… about the Dutch West India Company
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Jun 03 2008
“Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.” — critic, author, and journalist Marya Mannes …
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Jun 02 2008
We’ll speak with a Canadian anti-war activist about the House of Commons vote on whether to allow US war resisters asylum in Canada. And, contracted workers from India are on a hunger strike to protest their labor conditions in New Orleans calling it modern-day slavery. Plus, local activists return from a 75 mile walk in Tuscon, Arizona in solidarity with migrants who die in the desert crossing over to the United States. Plus a commentary …
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Jun 02 2008
GUEST: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation Magazine
Yesterday’s primary election in Puerto Rico yielded a solid win for Senator Hillary Clinton who is still hanging on in a bid to become the Democratic Party nominee. Clinton won 68% of the vote to Senator Barack Obama’s 32%. Still, Obama leads Clinton in …
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Jun 02 2008
GUEST: Larry Gross, Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Survival
As Californians cast their ballots in tomorrow’s statewide election, a new poll predicts the failure of Proposition 98 while noting its rival, Proposition 99, may pass. Released last week, the California Field Poll surveyed 660 likely voters and found that 43% opposed Prop …
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Jun 02 2008
GUESTS: Greta Berlin, one of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement, Omar Offendum, member of the Arab-American hip hop group N.O.M.A.D.S.
International criticism of the Israeli blockade of Gaza continued to mount last week as a former U.S. President and a Nobel Peace Laureate weighed in. In Wales, Jimmy Carter described the blockade, in …
Jun 02 2008
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’s commentary is on Democracy in Pakistan.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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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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