Nov
20
2015
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GUESTS: Diana Lopez is an organizer with the Southwest Workers Union for worker rights, environmental justice and community empowerment in San Antonio, Texas and has attended several UN climate conferences; Shawna Foster, veteran of the US National Guard where she served as a Nuclear Biological Chemical Weapons Specialist. She is currently the Board chair of Iraq Veterans Against The War. Both Akuno and Foster …
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Nov
20
2015
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GUEST: Robert Jensen is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He is the author of a number of books. His latest book is called ‘Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully.’
Our society tends to glorify leaders, those who make a name …
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Nov
19
2015
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GUEST: Luna Olavarria Gallegos, multimedia journalist originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and is currently a student at The New School in New York City. Previously, she has contributed to stopbeingfamous.com, National Radio Project and she is a senior editor of the national student newspaper readcontra.com.
Campus activism against racist policies has escalated and spread ever since the University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe stepped …
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Nov
19
2015
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GUEST: Jordan Elgrably, founding director of The Markaz, Arts Center for the Greater Middle East. A writer, editor, curator and producer of public programs, Jordan is of Moroccan and French heritage.
The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) has declared that it carried out an attack on a Russian airplane carrying 224 people last month. The attack, which took place over the Egyptian …
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Nov
19
2015
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GUEST: Amos Kamil is a playwright, screen writer, and investigative reporter. He is the author of Great Is the Truth: Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice At the Horace Mann School.
On June 6, 2012, New York Times magazine published a bombshell of an article entitled Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse. The author, Amos Kamil, was a …
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Nov
18
2015
Ralph Nader, is a long-time consumer advocate, lawyer, author, multiple presidential candidate, and sought-after speaker. His 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed led to vast improvements in automobile safety. He helped to found dozens of advocacy organizations including Public Citizen. He has written many, many books. His latest just out this year is called Return to Sender: Unanswered Letters to the President. His earlier books …
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Nov
16
2015
GUEST: Rania Masri, a political commentator, scholar, human rights activist, and most recently Associate Director, Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut.
A hundred and twenty nine people have been estimated killed in Paris, France in simultaneous attacks that took place on Friday evening. The attacks were carried out by suicide bombings and gunfire and came within a day of attacks …
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Nov
16
2015
GUEST: Derrick O’Keefe is an activist and journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. He is a founding editor of Ricochet Media.
Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau headed to Turkey on Friday to attend the G20 Leaders Summit. Ahead of his trip, he told press why he has chosen to accept tens of thousands of refugees fleeing wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, into Canada. In the few …
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Nov
13
2015
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GUEST: Joshua Holland, Writing fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and Host of Politics and Reality Radio, author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy, and Everything You need to Know About Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America.
Tuesday’s night’s GOP debate, sponsored by Fox Business News and Wall Street Journal, saw a narrowed field of candidates, dramatically pared down …
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Nov
13
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Marisa Franco, Director of #Not1MoreDeportation Campaign.
An appeals court this week finally made a decision on a major lawsuit brought by more than 2 dozen states against President Obama’s signature immigration orders, DACA and DAPA. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and its companion policy, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, were opposed almost from the start by Republicans. Now they’ve been stopped …
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