Mar 17 2010
This week marks the 30th Anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980, a landmark piece of legislation which made the U.S. an attractive home for men, women, and children fleeing persecution in other countries. In past decades however, escalating detentions and a barrage of new barriers have left asylum seekers trapped in a broken legal system where they encounter …
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Mar 17 2010
Several states around the nation are considering or passing bills that ban the chemical compound Bisphenol-A from baby bottles and cups, after greater evidence of it’s toxicity is coming to light. Recently the California Environmental Protection Agency moved toward listing BPA as a “chemical known to cause cancer or birth defects”. Under proposition 65 the state is required to …
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Mar 17 2010
Robert F Kennedy Jr., a Senator from New York, one-time US Attorney General, Presidential candidate, and part of the Kennedy dynasty, has become an icon of modern American liberalism. His assassination at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles on June 5th 1968 shocked the nation and ended a promising political career. Among his various political works, civil rights ranked as …
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Mar 17 2010
“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” –- Robert F Kennedy …
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Mar 17 2010
Two Senators introduce reforms to the Refugee Protection Act, Part 1 of Paul Blanc’s interview on “How Everyday Products Make People Sick,” and RFK: The Journey to Justice, a play by LA Theater Works. …
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Mar 16 2010
After dumping tea into the Boston Harbor in July of 1773, the Continental Congress decided to declare coffee the national drink of the United States. On January 26th of 2010, a movement called the Coffee Party called for a return to the democratic ideals that had sprung from rebellion. Coffee Party USA began with a Facebook post by documentary-filmmaker Annabel Park. Frustrated by …
Mar 16 2010
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.” — Sydney J Harris …
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Mar 15 2010
We’ll be joined in studio by members of the newly formed Coffee Party USA. Is it an alternative to the Tea Party movement? What are its politics? What does it hope to achieve? And how can you start a chapter in your community? We’ll learn the answers to these questions and more about the Coffee Party, and we’ll also take your calls.
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Mar 15 2010
An annual Gallup Poll released on Thursday shows an increasing number of Americans are less concerned about the threat of global warming. In the highest numbers since tracking began thirteen years ago, forty-eight percent of those surveyed believed that the dangers posed by the changing climate are exaggerated. Despite a consensus within the scientific community, the Gallup Poll …
Mar 15 2010
Senior House Democrats are cobbling together a new bill on healthcare, attaching a student aid bill that passed last September to the existing proposed healthcare legislation. The student aid bill, which cuts out private lenders from student loan programs altogether, passed the House by a greater margin than the healthcare bill – twenty seven more votes to be exact. Additionally, …
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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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