May 05 2010
“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” — Robert Redford …
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May 04 2010
We’ll go live to the Gulf Coast to hear how communities are responding to the devastation of the BP Oil Spill. And, we’ll get a report from the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty conference happening in New York. Plus, a move in the Senate to audit the Federal Reserve is gaining steam. We’ll speak with Tom Ferguson. …
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May 04 2010
The Cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel approved legislation yesterday that would give Greece eleven billion dollars as part of a larger European Union bailout. The aid, which still requires passage in parliament, was mandated after the International Monetary Fund and EU member governments agreed on Sunday to make $145 billion dollars in loans to the country over the course …
May 04 2010
Yesterday we heard part 1 of my interview with science writer Rebecca Skloot about her best selling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Today, we’ll hear part 2. Henrietta Lacks was a poor African American woman living in Maryland, who died of aggressive cervical cancer on October 4th 1951. She was only 31 years old and left …
May 04 2010
While the Black Panther Party is most often associated with the likes of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, one name – Richard Aoki, is known to few people outside Oakland, California. Richard Aoki, a founding member of the Black Panther Party was an American of Japanese descent and a personal friend of Huey Newton. After having spent the early …
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May 04 2010
40th Anniversary of Kent State Shootings
Back in the day on May 4th, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on Vietnam War protesters on the campus of Kent State University. The volley of sixty-seven bullets in thirteen seconds forty years ago claimed the lives of four students that day and injured nine others. The National Guard had been called …
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May 04 2010
“When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.” — Lao Tzu …
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May 03 2010
We’ll hear part 2 of my interview with Rebecca Skloot about her bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. And, a new documentary called Aoki, about the Asian-American founding member of the Black Panther Party. Plus, understanding the economic situation in Greece.
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May 03 2010
Spurred by the passage of the anti-immigrant law, SB1070 in Arizona, and by the lack of federal comprehensive immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of people turned out for May Day marches all over the nation this weekend. Rallies took place in major cities from New York to San Francisco. Los Angeles played host to the largest assembly of …
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May 03 2010
On October 4th 1951, a 31 year old poor Black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of aggressive cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. What neither she nor her family knew was that before her death, a sample of her cancer cells were taken and studied by scientists who discovered that unlike other cell samples, …
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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