Sep 15 2010
The Right Hook, a weekly segment which covers the machinations of the right wing, from the Republican Party to the Tea Party Patriots, and beyond. By Chris Bennett
Back in early August, we were among the first to report on a Gainesville, FL pastor, Terry Jones, who planned to commemorate September 11th by burning Korans. A media extravaganza …
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Sep 15 2010
“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.” — Henry Brooks Adams. …
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Sep 14 2010
We’ll analyze the results of the latest Congressional primaries with The Nation Magazine’s John Nichols. And, part two in a three part series on solar energy: the co-founder of Sungevity, the company that offered to outfit the White House with new solar panels, will join us from DC. Plus, a new documentary about the physical and emotional toll of education achievement on students called Race to Nowhere. And this week’s edition of The Right Hook. …
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Sep 14 2010
In the week following the shooting death of indigenous Guatemalan day laborer Manuel Jamines, community residents and activists are still congregating around the West Lake neighborhood where the incident took place. The LAPD and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa maintain that Jamines was armed with a knife and lunged toward the three police officers on Sunday September 5th, and that his …
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Sep 14 2010
If you’re a billionaire CEO running for elected office, the busy post-labor day election season provides a new opportunity for campaign spending. California’s Republican candidate for Governor, Meg Whitman, has spent more than $99 Million on her campaign while Democratic candidate while Jerry Brown has spent a mere $450,000. Ms. Whitman has spent $91 million of her own money …
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Sep 14 2010
When a ruptured natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas and Electric caused an explosion and fast moving fire last Thursday at least four people were killed and 58 homes destroyed. The death toll is expected to rise as bodies are recovered and identified. The pipeline ran underneath homes in San Bruno, a Northern California suburb. On Monday PG&E announced …
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Sep 14 2010
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.” — Groucho Marx …
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Sep 13 2010
We’ll follow up on the community reaction to the LAPD’s fatal shooting of Manual Jamines, an indigenous Guatemalan day laborer in Westlake — an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, and a community organizer will be our guests. Plus, Jerry Brown finally launches his campaign – we’ll analyze his first TV ad. And, the politics behind the shocking accident that led to seven deaths in San Bruno. …
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Sep 13 2010
A series of major pan-European general strikes have been planned for the end of this month protesting pension-cutting austerity plans. In the lead-up to the strike, there have been a series of major street protests and shutdowns over the summer in France, Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Britain, Romania, and other nations. Tens of thousands of rank-and-file union members …
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Sep 13 2010
Trader Joes has become a target of the Coalition for Immokalee Workers Fair Food! campaign. The grocery store has an ever growing number of locations around the nation and it describes itself as a specialty store that carries innovative as well as basic food items. It was ranked by the business focused think-tank Ethisphere as the one of three …
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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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