Apr 22 2009
Monday marked the tenth anniversary of the so-called Columbine Massacre, when two teenagers killed 12 classmates and a teacher in a shooting rampage at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. Tom Mauser, whose son was murdered that day, marked the occasion by calling on the Obama administration and the U.S. congress to pass legislation closing a …
Apr 22 2009
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889
Back in the day on April 22nd, 1889, the so-called Oklahoma Land Rush began. Exactly one-hundred and twenty years ago, an estimated 50,000 white would-be settlers made a mad dash at high noon to stake their claim to the newly available two million acres of so-called unassigned lands. A majority …
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Apr 22 2009
“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.” – Hunter S. Thompson …
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Apr 21 2009
Ten years after the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, we look at on-going gun violence in the US. And, as violence in Sri Lanka rises to a boiling point, we analyze the conflict and prospects for an elusive peace. Plus, Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Axis of Justice Radio Network, interviews Representative Adam Schiff about recognizing the Armenian Genocide. …
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Apr 21 2009
The New York Times reported yesterday that the Central Intelligence Agency extensively used waterboarding against two al-Qaeda suspects. The technique, which Attorney General Holder has deemed to be torture, was employed 183 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 83 times against Abu Zubaydah according to one of the four Bush-era torture memos that were released by the …
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Apr 21 2009
The United Nations opened its week long global conference against racism in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday. Known as the Durban II Conference, it is the first meeting in eight years since the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance took place in 2001 in Durban, South Africa. The US has boycotted both meetings over …
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Apr 21 2009
There are currently more slaves today than at any time in human history. That’s the basis of a new and extremely disturbing book by Benjamin Skinner, called A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern Slavery. Using the definition of slaves as “those that are compelled to work, through force or fraud, for no pay beyond subsistence,” …
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Apr 21 2009
The Tolpuddle Martyrs Demonstration
Back in the day on April 21st, 1834, a massive demonstration by thirty-five unions in Britain marched in defense of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. One month prior to the major protest that took place exactly one hundred and seventy-five years ago, six impoverished farm workers had been convicted in a blatantly unfair …
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Apr 21 2009
“Slavery has been with us for more than 5000 years, yet with concentrated and coordinated effort, we can eliminate it in a generation.” — Benjamin Skinner …
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Apr 20 2009
We’ll look at the newly released torture memos of the Bush era, and we’ll go to South Africa to speak with Rev. Eddie Makue as the UN Conference on Racism commences in Geneva. Plus, a conversation with Benjamin Skinner about his book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-face with Modern-Day Slavery.” …
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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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