Jul 16 2010
Carry It On! A Celebration of Words and Music – A KPFK Benefit
This evening the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon presents Carry it On! A Celebration of Words and Music, as part of their Starry Starry Nights program. The performance features a celebrity cast including James Cromwell, Amy Madigan, Michael O’Neill, Jordan Belfi and Christina Pickles alongside members of the Geer family. Actors will perform actual speeches, songs …
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Just six months after Americans experienced a record breakingly cold winter, prompting global warming deniers to gloat, a severe heat wave has been scorching the nation all week with above 100 degree temperatures from New York to Los Angeles. And it’s not Americans sweating. The Chinese capital Beijing has hit a near record high of 105 degrees. Iraqi cities …
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A retired Israeli general leading the inquiry into the fatal raid of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has finally made a report to his government. While details of General Eiland’s findings were not made public, an official summary was released early this week which essentially justified the shooting deaths of nine Turkish citizens, one of whom had duel US citizenship, on …
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, that’s been the official U.S. military policy on Gays and Lesbians in the military since 1993, when it was first adopted by the Clinton Administration. Since then the policy has been criticized for taking an ambivalent stance on a serious civil rights issue. An estimated 13,500 service members have been fired under Don’t Ask …
Over a thousand California nurses are gathering this morning outside the home of former eBay CEO and Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman in Atherton. The conservative billionairess has taken on the California Nurses Association after it endorsed Democrat Jerry Brown for governor. Part of Whitman’s election campaign is to fire 40,000 state workers. She also wants to cut $15 …
While pundits and economists worry about Wall Street’s well-being, Americans worry about losing their jobs, paying their bills, and the declining health of the planet. The capitalist marketplace promotes the exploitation of people and natural resources as cheap fixes. But you don’t have to abandon your values to save a buck. Welcome to the People’s Marketplace. 
