May 03 2012
May 3, 2012
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” — R Buckminister Fuller …
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May 02 2012
May 3, 2012
US labor joins with a group of Mexican lawyers in bringing suit against Alabama’s harsh immigration law, claiming it violates a NAFTA provision. And, we’ll hear part two of our Los Angeles May Day report. Plus, the story of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and US-China tensions. …
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May 02 2012
LA Activists Converge on Downtown LA; Workers Disrupt LAX
May Day celebrations and actions across the country yesterday made headlines. Here in Southern California, thousands of activists converged onto Downtown LA from four points, North, South, East, and West while workers and their supporters at LA International Airport demonstrated and went on strike, disrupting operations. About 200 LAX workers under the union SEIU United Workers West and their supporters, …
May 02 2012
May Day Activities in New York Lead to 50 Arrests
May Day protests took place around the nation as you just heard on Activist Beat. The cities of Oakland and Seattle saw militant marches that ended in tear gas and arrests. Actions also took place in Chicago, Atlanta, and many other cities. New York’s May Day actions were the largest in the nation with tens of thousands of people gathering …
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May 02 2012
May 2, 2012
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters….Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass
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May 02 2012
The Activist Beat on May Day
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.
Thanks to the Occupy movement, yesterday’s May Day actions in more than 115 cities across the country got widespread coverage in the corporate media.
The angle that deserves far more …
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May 01 2012
May 2, 2012
Uprising presents an hour-special reportback from the May 1st General Strike in the Los Angeles area! …
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May 01 2012
SPECIAL COVERAGE: May 1st General Strike
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After a long winter of planning and preparation, the Occupy Wall Street Movement begins its next crucial phase of action starting today May 1st which is also known as May Day or International Worker’s Day. To commemorate the day, Occupy activists are calling for the largest general strike in the history of the United States. For Occupiers this will be a ‘Day without …
May 01 2012
Civic Circus on May Day in LA
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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Today is May 1st and I am going to be one of the hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets of LA. May Day has become a convergence of International Workers Day and Immigrant Rights, but …
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