Nov 15 2012
When Superstorm Sandy hit WBAI, it trapped seven of the station’s staff in studios on the 10th story of a building with seawater up to the second floor.
Today, the building’s wiring is still unusable, and the station’s facing a second disaster: because the storm knocked WBAI off the air in the middle of a fund drive, and the station …
Nov 15 2012
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.” — Albert Schweitzer …
Comments Off on Subversive Thought for November 15, 2012
Nov 15 2012
(Reuters) – BP Plc will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 workers and caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill ever.
The settlement includes a $1.256 billion criminal fine, the largest such levy in U.S. history, the oil company said on Thursday. Wall Street analysts said the deal will allow BP to focus again on oil production.
One U.S. senator from Louisiana said he …
Comments Off on Reuters: BP Agrees to Pay $4.5 Billion for US oil spill
Nov 14 2012
Ireland’s near-total ban on abortion has come under renewed scrutiny amid an outcry over the death of a woman who was denied a termination.
Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old dentist, died of blood poisoning at Galway University hospital. She had turned up at the hospital a week earlier, but was denied a medical termination and, according to her husband, was told: “This is a Catholic country.”
The death intensified pressure on Ireland’s Fine Gael-Labour coalition to legislate and …
Comments Off on Guardian: Ireland abortion policy under scrutiny after woman’s death
Nov 14 2012
GAZA — Israel on Wednesday launched one of the most ferocious assaults on Gaza since its invasion four years ago, hitting at least 20 targets in aerial attacks that killed the top military commander of Hamas, drew strong condemnation from Egypt and escalated the risks of a new war in the Middle East.The Israelis coupled the intensity of the airstrikes with warnings to all Hamas leaders in Gaza to stay out of sight or risk …
Comments Off on NY Times: Israelis Launch Major Assault on Gaza, Killing Hamas Commander
Nov 14 2012
Nearly nine million Californians – almost a quarter of the state’s residents – live in poverty under a newly devised federal standard, making the state’s rate by far the highest in the nation.
The stunning number will fuel California’s perpetual political debate over the state’s “safety net” of health and welfare services, which have been reduced sharply due to budget deficits. With voter approval of new taxes, advocates for the poor are demanding that some of …
Comments Off on Capitol Alert: CA poverty rate highest in the Nation
Nov 14 2012
Israel has launched the start of a new war on Gaza “that will continue and grow,” pounding the blockaded area with an aerial assault including multiple airstrikes on Wednesday.
Israel has named their new war: “Operation Pillar of Cloud” – a Biblical reference to the Divine cloud that protected the Jewish people.
The IDF, (Israel Defense Forces), tweeted Wednesday: “All options are on the table. If necessary, the IDF is ready to initiate a ground operation …
Comments Off on CommonDreams: Multiple airstrikes already started, ground invasion possible in Gaza
Nov 14 2012
The 1949 dystopian novel titled simply 1984, by radical British writer George Orwell is considered one of the classics of our time. Set in a grim future world ruled by war, 1984 centers on a protagonist named Winston, whose instincts for real freedom lead him to question the state propaganda that rules his society. But he does so at great risk to himself. Famous for …
Comments Off on Orwell’s 1984 and Ellison’s Invisible Man Bring to Life Classic Political Literature: Celebrating the Pacifica Radio Archives
Nov 14 2012
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.” — E. M. Forster
…
Comments Off on Subversive Thought for November 14, 2012
Nov 13 2012
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.” — Leo Tolstoy
…
Comments Off on Subversive Thought for November 13, 2012
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 ……
... more Announcements, Speaker Series
|
