Apr 27 2011
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
The Defense of Marriage Act is a Republican inspired effort to ban gay marriages in the U.S. According to ABC News, Paul Clement, the former solicitor general for George …
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Apr 26 2011
We’ll cover what the Guantanamo Wikileaks papers do NOT cover about torture of hundreds of detainees. And, we’ll cover how the 2012 budget battle impacts the Farm Bill. And, a new book “Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children.” And this week’s edition of The Right Hook. …
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Apr 26 2011
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, finding for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at his 1982 trial were potentially misleading.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered prosecutors to conduct the new sentencing hearing within six months or agree to a life sentence. Abu-Jamal’s first-degree murder conviction nonetheless stands in the fatal shooting of Officer …
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Apr 26 2011
Exactly twenty five years ago today, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the small Ukrainian town of Pripyat, triggered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Plumes of highly radioactive smoke poured out of the plant, much of it landing on Russia, the Ukraine, and Belarus, but spreading as far as Western Europe. More than 300,000 …
Apr 26 2011
The New York Times on Sunday released information culled from 700 classified documents pertaining to hundreds of Guantanamo prison detainees. The Times obtained the material through Wikileaks last year. The new trove of documents provides the American public with the most honest accounting of the reality at Guantanamo, and the only profile of the hundreds of detainees, since the controversial …
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Apr 26 2011
Having put off a discussion about extending the USA PATRIOT Act, members of Congress will return from their two week recess next week faced with a series of bills about the post-9-11 law. A short-term 90-day extension of three provisions of the PATRIOT Act was overwhelmingly passed by Congress in February. Now that the extension is expiring, three bills …
Apr 26 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.
Citizens across the country continue to protest over drastic budget cuts to basic social services.
Last Monday, a dozen demonstrators, including people who are homeless, arrived at the Olympia, Washington, …
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Apr 26 2011
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” — Benjamin Franklin …
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Apr 25 2011
Tomorrow: we’ll revisit the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on its 25th anniversary. And, we’ll look at the secretive Communication Management Units in federal prisons. Plus, as provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act once more come up for extension, we’ll look at the progressive alternative to it – the JUSTICE Act, or the Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools Act. And this week’s Activist Beat. …
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Apr 25 2011
KPFK and All Saints Church present author and veteran journalist Chris Hedges at 7:30 p.m. on Friday April 29th in the All Saints Church Forum, 132 N Euclid Avenue, Pasadena CA 91101.
Chris will be discussing and signing his new book, “The World As it Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.” — Books will be available for purchase.
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar, and KPFK Program Director Alan Minsky will be presenting the evening’s event. …
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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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