Oct
17
2012
With only one more debate remaining until the Presidential election in November, many voters still remain uninformed about critical issues affecting our nation and the world. The corporate controlled media often stifle the stories which are critical to their business agenda, instead focusing on an extremely sanitized narrow view of the world. Veteran investigative journalist and founder and host of …
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Oct
16
2012
Arun Gupta and Mattea Kramer join us for a post-debate analysis a day after both major party presidential candidates face off for a second time. Plus, a conversation with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman about her book, the Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope …
Oct
16
2012
“American workers labor longer than any of their counterparts in the Western world. But they are also worse off than any of those counterparts. They are not receiving their just desserts. Now let’s do something together about this abomination.” — Ralph Nader from his book The Seventeen Solutions. …
Oct
16
2012
Recent protests at Walmart stores have shed new light on the mistreatment of Walmart workers in more than 5000 stores across America. Walmart, the nation’s largest employer has more than 2 million workers on payroll, comprising a massive 2% of the US GDP.
On October 4th, more than sixty Walmart workers organized a walkout from nine different stores across California. …
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Oct
16
2012
Of the 11 propositions on this November’s ballot, Proposition 33 is one that you may have not heard too much about other than from the “YES on 33” campaigns. George Joseph, the billionaire chairman of Mercury Insurance has backed the proposition with over $16 million dollars of his own money, which is 99.5% percent of the total funds raised for …
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Oct
16
2012
A mass hunger strike is underway among solitary confinement inmates at one California prison, while a second protest at another facility has stopped.
Corrections officials said they do not know why about 500 inmates started refusing food Wednesday, the same day a prison “end to hostilities” was called by inmate activists who had orchestrated last year’s mass hunger strikes.
The fasting began at opposite ends of the state. Several hundred inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison near …
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Oct
16
2012
With the support of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a proposal to create a “City Service Card” that could be used as a limited form of identification by undocumented immigrants gets its first review Tuesday.
The card was proposed by City Councilman Richard Alarcón to allow the undocumented, and other city residents, access to a debit card and banking services, and a city library account.
Read the full story here. …
Oct
16
2012
At least five arrested as thousands rally in Kuwait
(Reuters) – At least five protesters were arrested and several injured in Kuwait as police tried to break up an opposition protest late on Monday, witnesses said.
Authorities had asked opposition lawmakers to call off the demonstration over political reforms, but at least 5,000 people gathered in a square near parliament that has been the site of several anti-government protests since last year.
Although major oil producer Kuwait has …
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Oct
15
2012
Some of the skateboarders who had lined up to see skate film Bake And Destroy ended up throwing rocks and bottles at police tonight in what will probably become known as the Hollywood Skater Riot of 2012.
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Oct
15
2012
Walmart workers spread their labor revolt – we’ll speak with a Walmart labor scholar and a worker. And, Consumer Watchdog’s Jamie Court on Proposition 33 and it’s billionaire auto insurance executive backer. Plus, Ralph Nader in a new speech, on his latest book Seventeen Solutions. …
