Mar 24 2010
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of several cities across the United States on Saturday to mark the seventh anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq. The largest protest took place in the nation’s capital as at least eight people were arrested for laying mock coffins outside the fence of the White House. Locally in Los Angeles, thousands …
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Mar 24 2010
In the 1940s, the grandchildren of slaves began migrating from southern states to Los Angeles in search of a refuge from racism, only to be greeted by more racism. With crosses burning in Inglewood and Culver city as late as the 1960s, and a militant police force led by Chief William Parker that drew support from the FBI and …
Mar 24 2010
The Assassination of Oscar Romero
Back in the day on March 24th, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was assassinated. Thirty years ago, in the midst of a bloody civil war, Romero gave a homily a day before his death that was broadcast throughout the Central American nation. In it, he implored the rank and file members …
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Mar 23 2010
“It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” — Mark Twain …
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Mar 23 2010
This past weekend, the largest ever Left Forum took place in downtown New York city, on the campus of Pace University. The annual gathering attracted thousands of progressive activists and thinkers who attended more than a hundred panels on issues like healthcare, the economy, responses to the right, labor, racism, and taking on the Obama presidency. Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar attended the gathering, whose …
Mar 23 2010
The Enabling Act of 1933
Back in the day on March 23rd, 1933, Adolf Hitler consolidated his dictatorial powers in Germany through the passage of the Enabling Act. Euphemistically titled the “Law for the Removal of the Distress of People and Reich,” the legislation effectively dissolved any notions of democratic governance in the European country and firmly entrenched …
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Mar 22 2010
We’ll get the latest update on healthcare with Ellen Shaffer of the Center for Policy Analysis. And, we’ll have a reportback from this weekend’s March 20th demonstration against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Plus, film maker Gregory Everett will join us in studio to discuss his new film, 41st and Central: The Untold Story of the LA Black Panthers. …
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Mar 22 2010
The monthly jobs report for February indicated that while Americans lost another 36,000 jobs, the rate of unemployment remained at 9.7%, the same as January and slightly less than December’s figure of 10% The fact that Wall Street firms are reporting fairly robust gains, even while new jobs aren’t being created has provided fodder for populist concerns and pushed Democrats and President …
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Mar 22 2010
“Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.” – David Korten …
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Mar 19 2010
The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity — And What We Can Do About It – we’ll spend the hour with author Les Leopold …
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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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