Apr 20 2010
April 20, 2010
We’ll speak with Aye Chan Niang, the Executive Director of the Democratic Voice of Burma – the intrepid organization of citizen journalists featured in the Academy award nominated documentary Burma VJ. And we’ll get an update on the draconian anti-immigrant bill that just passed in Arizona and on the verge of being signed into law, heralding a new era of Jim-Crow-like measures targeting Latinos. Plus, we’ll learn of a campaign to save Olvera Street – …
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The Los Angeles Police Department’s most controversial police chief in recent history, Daryl Gates, died last week at the age of 83 from cancer. He started his career as police chief in the late 70s, around the time when many social and political movements for equality were at their peak. Under Gates’ tenure in the 80s, violent crime grew rapidly. …
Medical marijuana users and advocates for legalization gathered this weekend near San Francisco for the International Cannabis and Hemp Expo. The two-day event attracted more than 15,000 attendants at the Cow Palace Arena in nearby Daly City for vendor displays of various medicinal marijuana related products. The expo was also historic insofar as, after a four-year organizational fight, …
Produced by acclaimed film maker Deepa Mehta, and directed by her brother, Dilip Mehta, a new feature film called Cooking with Stella will open the eight Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles tonight. Deepa Mehta is best known for her Academy Award nominated film Water, which featured the same leading ladies, Seema Biswas and Lisa Ray, as …
For 34 years, manufactured chemicals used in consumer products have been considered innocent until proven guilty in terms of how they affect human beings and the environment. That could change if legislation filed last Thursday by New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg is passed. The bill would require chemical manufacturers to prove that chemicals were safe before they …
Activists took to Exposition Park yesterday morning to confront and protest Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the Live Earth Run for Water. Organized by the Vietnam Agent Orange Responsibility and Relief Campaign, the corporation was accused of “greenwashing” its reputation through the event which was aimed at confronting the water crisis. As Dow was a chief manufacturer of the …
