Nov 10 2015
GUEST: Zoe Dolan, is a lawyer based in Los Angeles and New York City. Her practice focuses on criminal defense, with an emphasis on national security and death penalty cases. She currently represents Suleiman Abu Ghayth, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and the allegedly highest ranked al-Qaeda suspect to be tried in a civilian court in the United States.
Zoe Dolan has at least two …
Nov 09 2015
GUEST: Sarah Deer, Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. She is the co-author of three books on tribal law and co-editor of Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence.
There is an epidemic of rape in the United States. That epidemic has its epicenter in Native American communities. One third of all …
Nov 06 2015
GUEST: Deborah Jian Lee, award winning journalist and radio producer, former staff reporter for the Associated Press. She has taught journalism at Columbia University and written for Foreign Policy, Forbes, Slate, and more.
It used to be that the Republican Party could rely pretty heavily on evangelical Christians to vote for them, drawn to the party’s adherence to socially conservative positions. The issues …
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Nov 04 2015
GUEST: Abdel Bari Atwan is a Palestinian journalist and writer and the long-time editor-in chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. He now edits the Rai Al-Youm news website, the Arab world’s first Huffington Post-style outlet. He is a contributor to the Guardian newspaper and Scottish Herald. He interviewed Osama Bin Laden twice in the 1990s. His books include The Secret History …
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Nov 03 2015
GUEST: Dan Barber is the executive chef at a restaurant in Manhattan West Village called Blue Hill, and works with a non-profit called Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. He writes about food and agricultural policy for the New York Times and has won a number of awards including the James Beard award.
California has hundreds of farmers markets all over the state. Whether you live in a big or …
Nov 02 2015
GUEST: Vicki Abeles, filmmaker whose 2009 documentary Race to Nowhere exposed the detrimental nature of high-stakes testing in public schools. Her new film Beyond Measure, shares its name with her new book Beyond Measure: Rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation.
President Obama in late October, made a surprise announcement on the White House Facebook page against high-stakes testing in public schools. The issue of high-stakes testing, …
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Oct 30 2015
GUEST: Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature. She is the author of: the New York Times ‘Notable Books, Surpassing the Love of Men and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers’, ‘Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics’ and ‘Lipstick Lesbians.’
Just a few years ago, when California was reeling from Proposition 8 (which many …
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Oct 29 2015
GUEST: Joy Ann Reid, National Correspondent for MSNBC, appearing regularly on prime time programs such as Chris Matthews and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. She is the former managing editor of TheGrio.com and her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Salon, and more.
Activists with the Black Lives Matter movement recently asked the Democratic and Republican National Committees …
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Oct 28 2015
GUEST: Dilip Hiro is a leading expert on South Asia and the Middle East, Hiro, has written more than 35 books and is a regular contributor to Tom Dispatch and Yale Global Online.
The Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy has become an expert at courting his fundamentalist and caste-ist Hindu base, while employing modern technology to create a cult of personality around …
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Oct 27 2015
GUEST: Adam Briggle, Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas in Denton, who has been active in the citizen movements against fracking. He is the author of ‘A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas’.
In November 2014, the north Texas town of Denton gained international prominence when community organizers drafted and passed the very first …
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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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