Jun 08 2010
Attorneys are set to question potential jurors in a Los Angeles courtroom today in the long-delayed fatal shooting trial of Johannes Mehserle. The white former Bay Area Transit police officer stands accused in the shooting death of a young black man named Oscar Grant. The incident, caught on multiple cell phones and other recording devices, sparked outrage and protests …
Jun 08 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on the history of BP.
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Jun 08 2010
Today is day 50 of the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the struggle to cap the flow is still on-going. Even though BP has managed to install a cap that is slowing down the leak by hundreds of thousands of gallons, it is estimated that 29-39 million gallons of oil are already in …
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Jun 08 2010
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” — John Maynard Keynes …
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Jun 07 2010
We’ll get the latest on the BP oil spill, efforts to cap it, and BP’s expensive PR campaign. And, John Nichols of the Nation Magazine will give us a bird’s eye view of Tuesday’s primary elections around the nation. Plus, a live report on the Johannes Mehserle trial for the murder of Oscar Grant. …
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Jun 07 2010
Voters will head to the polls in California tomorrow for the primary elections, to choose their party’s nominations for a number of seats including state Governor and Senate Representatives, as well as a number of ballot initiatives. While the Democratic Party’s Jerry Brown is running unchallenged, a stiff fight has shaped up for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Spending unprecedented amounts of money in the …
Jun 07 2010
Cohen v. California
Back in the day on June 7th, 1971, The Supreme Court of the United States overturned a ruling in the free speech case of Cohen v. California. The legal dispute stemmed from an incident in April 1968 when 19 year old Paul Cohen wore a jacket reading “Fuck the Draft” inside a Los Angeles …
Jun 07 2010
“An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod.” -– Franklin Delanore Roosevelt. …
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Jun 04 2010
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* In-Depth Conversation with Huwaida Arraf, Chair of the Free Gaza Movement
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Jun 04 2010
We’ll speak with Laura Wells, a candidate for the Green Party’s nomination for Governor of California. She joins us in studio to discuss some of the ballot initiatives in the state as well as the two major party’s candidates for governor. …
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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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