Oct
23
2009
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Forty five years ago this year, in the thick of the Vietnam War, a group of draft resisters founded an organization called simply The Resistance. The group grew to national stature attracting members from all over the country including Los Angeles. Now, to commemorate that 45th anniversary, original members of The Resistance will join today’s antiwar groups like …
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Oct
23
2009
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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the health care debate.
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Oct
23
2009
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The First Woman’s Rights Convention
Back in the day on October 23rd, 1850, the First National Woman’s Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. The two-day gathering attracted more than one-thousand attendants from states across the nation. The pioneering convention central to strengthening the national movement for women’s equality was born earlier that year from the discussions of …
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Oct
23
2009
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” — Thomas Paine …
Oct
22
2009
We’ll look at an effort on global warming claiming to be the largest day of global political action in history. Environmentalist Bill McKibben will join us alongside a local organizer. And, we’ll speak with analyst David Corn about a new online computer game that enables Obama haters to act out their wildest political fantasies. Plus, an event this weekend at the historic Ash Grove commemorates the 45th anniversary of founding of The Resistance – a …
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Oct
22
2009
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This week the NBC network is teaming up with California First Lady Maria Shriver to present a week of television programming on the state of 21st Century American women. The programming will be based on a new report called The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.” The Shriver Report reveals that for the first time in …
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Oct
22
2009
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Mira Nair is an award winning film maker whose film credits include Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, and The Namesake. Her newest film, opening this Friday in theaters, is called Amelia, a biopic about Amelia Earhart, the legendary women’s rights advocate and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. Nair’s biggest budget film …
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Oct
22
2009
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The campaign to elect President Obama last year actively engaged millions of Americans who were previously indifferent or alienated from the political process. But just a mere 9 months after his inauguration, a rightwing backlash hostile to everything Obama-related, seems to have out-organized progressives. Obama’s election campaign infrastructure has remorphed itself into a group called Organizing for America, firing …
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Oct
22
2009
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The Trial of Nelson Mandela
Back in the day on October 22nd, 1962, Nelson Mandela stood trial for inciting workers to strike and for leaving South Africa without a passport. The African National Congress member set out to put the injustices of the government itself on trial as he took up the task of defending himself. Mandela, who …
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Oct
22
2009
“Authenticity comes when your thoughts, your words, and your deeds have some relations to each other. It comes when there’s a real organic relationship between the way you think, the way you talk, and the way you act. You have to fight for authenticity all the time in this world, and if you don’t fight for it you will get derailed.” – Abe Osheroff in an interview with Robert Jensen …
