Mar 01 2011
We’ll speak with a Kaiser nurse, one of over a thousand, who will walk out of the Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center on Wednesday March 2nd for a 24 hour strike to protest working conditions and nurse-to-patient ratios. And, CSUN students rally against fee increases, plus the latest on Wikileaks. …
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Mar 01 2011
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scheduled to present a two-year budget to his state Assembly today. A controversial complement to his budget – gutting collective bargaining rights for most public employees – turned Wisconsin’s capitol, Madison, into a battle ground over the past several weeks. Walker’s budget is expected to include additional cuts that will be vehemently opposed. He is …
Mar 01 2011
Despite its innocuous-sounding name the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent more money than any other entity in lobbying Congress. And now it seems the Chamber will go to any lengths to secure it’s pro-business agenda. Tens of thousands of leaked emails recently confirmed that a law firm called Hunton and Williams, working for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had …
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Mar 01 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
It was the largest demonstration Madison, Wisconsin has seen since Vietnam. Over 100,000 people took to the freezing streets on Saturday to continue expressing their opposition to Republican Governor Scott …
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Mar 01 2011
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” — Erich Fromm …
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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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