Dec 06 2012
Check out Sit Kitty Sit, from San Francisco, California!
We played their song “Big Top” on today’s show.
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Dec 05 2012
We’ll speak with IDF general’s son Miko Peled who will be one of hundreds of protesters outside Thursday evening’s demonstration against the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces fundraiser. And, a look at Lost Angels, a new documentary about LA’s Skid Row and it’s inhabitants. …
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Dec 05 2012
Bradley Manning’s “unlawful pretrial punishment” hearing continues today, following six days of testimonies including from Manning himself. Statements were also made by Master Sergeant Craig Blenis and Chief Warrant Officer James Averhart, both Brig supervisors in the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia during Manning’s incarceration.
Focusing on Manning’s time in Quantico, the lengthy testimonies have pushed the official trial’s start …
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Dec 05 2012
Hollywood, once the heart of the world’s entertainment industry has seen its film industry decimated with fewer and fewer productions filming in Los Angeles. Although the industry is one of the largest employers in the local economy generating more than $6 billion in state and local taxes, more than 16,000 jobs have been lost to other states and countries in …
Dec 05 2012
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower …
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Dec 05 2012
A new report by the Half in Ten campaign comprehensively examined poverty across the country and found that 16.6% of California residents fell below the official poverty line. Food insecurity in California was also found to be high with 16.2% of this state’s households unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members at some point …
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Dec 05 2012
Check out Diamond Light, from Beachwood Canyon, California!
We played their song “Never Enough” on today’s show.
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Dec 04 2012
The lawyer for accused WikiLeaks collaborator Bradley Manning suggested Monday that President Barack Obama’s position on protecting government whistleblowers is hypocritical.
Obama put his signature on a new law designed to stiffen protections for whistleblowers on Nov. 27. “As President Obama was signing this bill into law, Brad and I were in a courtroom,” Manning’s defense attorney, David E. Coombs, said Monday at the All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, D.C., in his first public appearance …
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Dec 04 2012
We’ll go live to Washington DC to speak with reporter Kevin Gosztola who’s been closely following the case of Bradley Manning. And, film critic David Spaner joins us in studio to discuss his new book Shoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film. Plus, Hunger Action LA’s Frank Tamborello joins us to discuss why LA’s poor are going hungry this holiday season. …
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Dec 04 2012
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” — Thomas Paine …
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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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