Mar 22 2011
Robert McChesney, media analyst will join us to discuss the AT&T-T-Mobile merger and what it means for our democracy. And, Marcy Winograd on her third run for the 36th Congressional District after Jane Harman resigned. Plus, the next front in the GOP war on workers is Alaska – we’ll speak with a union representative. And this week’s edition of The Right Hook. …
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Mar 22 2011
The German newspaper Spiegel yesterday published gruesome photographs of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan taken of themselves posing with dead Afghan civilians. The photos were considered “trophies” collected by a so-called “kill team” of soldiers, twelve of whom are now facing court martial proceedings. Spiegel has reviewed thousands of photos and hours of video footage, from which it has so …
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Mar 22 2011
Yet another revolution in the Middle East is on the verge of overturning a dictatorial government. Demonstrations in the Gulf state of Yemen on Monday reached a critical mass with tens of thousands of people showing up in city centers across the country demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The protests provided the impetus for as many as …
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Mar 22 2011
Republicans and Democrats are looking to the 2012 elections as they negotiate a budget to avoid a government shutdown this year. Last week the second stop-gap spending bill of the year was passed by the Senate, funding the federal government until April 8th. The two chambers have yet to find a compromise that satisfies each party. House …
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Mar 22 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.
This past Saturday marked the 8th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. It came and went with barely a mention in the national media. Jane Arraf, an Al Jazeera …
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Mar 22 2011
On Wednesday March 23, a broad coalition of interests in California will rally in downtown Los Angeles at 2:30pm to protest H.R.1. The coalition states that House Republican’s budget proposal would result in $1 billion less for LA county. At a time when the state of California is facing significant budget shortfalls the loss of federal money could result in more lay-offs and stagnant growth.
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Mar 22 2011
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mar 21 2011
We’ll hear from famed Afghan women’s rights activist Malalai Joya, whose visa to the U.S. for a national speaking tour was just denied. And, Yemen’s revolution is at a tipping point while airstrikes on Libya continue. Phyllis Bennis will analyze the on-going Arab revolutions and the role of the U.S. Plus, a broad coalition of activists will rally this week in Los Angeles against the Federal Budget’s attacks on workers and the environment. And The …
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Mar 21 2011
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” — Wendell Berry …
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Mar 21 2011
On Friday, former Haitian president Jean Bernard-Aristide arrived in Haiti, ending his seven-year exile to South Africa, to attend the country’s presidential elections on March 20. Upon arriving in Port-au-Prince, Aristide was accompanied his wife, Mildred, Pacifica journalists Margaret Prescod and Amy Goodman, US attorney Ira Kurzban, and actor Danny Glover among others. The Haitian government issued the former president …
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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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