Aug 06 2010
A former Cambodian prison head under the Khmer Rouge regime was sentenced to 19 years in prison last week on July 26th. The sentence was the first ever given out by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, or ECCC, a hybrid UN-Cambodian government tribunal created five years ago to try senior leaders of the Khmer …
Aug 06 2010
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about Maxine Waters.
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Aug 06 2010
“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.” — Robert Fulghum …
Aug 05 2010
We’ll go live to Lebanon to understand the origins of the border skirmish with Israel and whether there is a danger of escalation. And, we’ll speak with the film makers of a new documentary, Enemies of the People, about the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields in Cambodia. And, Howard Zinn’s last book The Bomb, published posthumously on the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Plus this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Aug 05 2010
A federal judge yesterday struck down the same-sex marriage ban that was narrowly passed by California voters nearly two years ago. Judge Vaughn Walker, a Republican appointee, issued a 138 page ruling against Proposition 8 explaining that “marriage in the United States has always been a civil matter,” and that no one’s faith should be affected by the …
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Aug 05 2010
The International Ban on Cluster Bombs took effect last Sunday, August 1. Since the Convention on Cluster Munitions opened for signature in Oslo in December 2008, over 100 countries have signed the treaty, with 37 countries having ratified it. Negotiations for the Convention were led by the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), an international network of more than 350 organizations …
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Aug 05 2010
The California Board of Education unanimously voted to adopt the Common Core State Standards education curriculum on Monday. The Common Core Standards, which are voluntarily adopted by states, unifies national education policy, and is preferred by the Obama administration. California is one of 19 states competing for hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal Grant money under President Obama’s …
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Aug 05 2010
While pundits and economists worry about Wall Street’s well-being, Americans worry about losing their jobs, paying their bills and the 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.
By Martina Steiner.
Do you …
Aug 05 2010
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” — Paolo Freire …
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Aug 04 2010
We’ll go live to Lebanon to find out why Israel has attacked the border between the two countries. And we’ll learn about the cluster ban treaty that just went into effect and why the US has refused to sign on. Plus, we’ll evaluate Obama’s Race to the Top Initiative. And this week’s edition of The People’s Marketplace. …
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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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