Jul 25 2007
GUEST: Patty Lovera, Assistant Director of Food and Water Watch
Several countries have recently banned a host of Chinese products ranging from pet food to shrimp. The moves were prompted by a finding this April by the US Food and Drug Administration that North American dogs and cats were poisoned by tainted Chinese …
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Jul 20 2007
GUEST: Barry Nelson, co-author of “In Hot Water,” and co-director of NRDC’s Western Water Project
This week Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been touring California to promote a six billion dollar bond measure to address water shortages. The governor hopes to have his bond measure up for a vote as early as the February 2008 primary. …
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Jul 19 2007
GUEST: Tim Karr, Campaign Director of Free Press
Last Wednesday, the Board of Directors of Dow Jones voted to approve Rupert Murdoch’s five billion dollar News Corporation bid to acquire the company. The proposed sale still needs the approval of the Bancroft family stockholders who will meet this coming Monday. Descendants of Clarence Barron …
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Jul 12 2007
GUEST: Camilo Mejia, author of Road from Ar Ramadi
In 2004 Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia was court-martialed by the US military for desertion. A veteran of the US war on Iraq, Mejia had spent 8 years in the military and eventually filed for conscientious objector status, becoming the first publicly known US soldier to do so. Now, his first book and …
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Jul 10 2007
GUEST: Jorge Coulon, founder of Inti Illimani
Since 1967, the accomplished Chilean band, Inti Illimani, has created a historic musical legacy by creatively fusing traditional Andean music with Latin America’s best known musical forms. As principal musicians in a cultural phenomenon known as Nueva Cancion, Inti Illimani has written and performed some of …
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Jul 09 2007
GUESTS: Zia Mian, with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad
At least 21 people have been killed since last Tuesday in violence between Pakistani government forces and religious leaders and …
Jun 11 2007
Guest: John Pilger, award winning journalist and film maker, author of “Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire”
In his new book, Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire, award winning journalist and film maker John Pilger has examined the state of empire and people’s resistance in 5 different former, and current colonies: Afghanistan, the …
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Jun 07 2007
GUESTS: Becky Dennison Co-Director, and General Dogon, organizer with the LA Community Action Network, O.C. Hasson, eyewitness to the beating
Last Sunday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles, according to numerous witness reports, a group of 4-5 LAPD police officers brutalized a homeless African American woman on the street in Downtown LA. Witnesses state that the …
Jun 04 2007
GUEST: Scott Ritter, Former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq, author of several books including Iraq Confidential, Target Iran, and Waging Peace
Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter is an unlikely person to be offering advice for the antiwar movement. He is Republican who voted for George Bush in 2000. But ever since the Bush administration began …
Jun 01 2007
GUEST: Shahidul Alam, world renowed photographed
From now until June 5, Shahidul Alam is visiting the UCLA campus to lecture on the impact of technology on the shape of modern journalism. This week, he delivered two lectures at UCLA. The first, entitled “Publishing From the Streets: Citizen Journalism,” explored how activist communities have …
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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