Feb 15 2012
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
The horrific working conditions at the Foxconn factories in China are finally getting the national media attention they deserve. Foxconn is the company whose massive factories make electronic products for …
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Jan 18 2012
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
This Sunday marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision recognizing a woman’s constitutional right to have a safe and legal abortion.
Women’s rights and …
Jan 11 2012
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
Activists in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Fresno, and San Francisco took to the streets yesterday to speak out against Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to slash another $1.4 billion in funding …
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Dec 22 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
As we come to the end of 2011, we should take time to reflect on what the citizens of the world have accomplished from Wisconsin to Cairo.
We’re saturated with …
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Dec 14 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
Over the past two months, over 5,500 demonstrators at Occupy camps across the country have been arrested, many after being pepper sprayed, tear gassed, or hit with a billy club …
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Nov 23 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
You know things are bad when members of the 1% are asking Congress to raise their taxes. That’s what happened last Wednesday in Washington. Twenty-one members of the group Read more
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Nov 09 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
It wasn’t difficult to find lifelong Republican Karen Ford at Occupy Monterey’s rally on Saturday. I simply told the crowd that I was interested in interviewing people who’ve never been …
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Nov 03 2011
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Oct 26 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
Just hours after riot police armed with tear gas, rubber bullets, and beanbag rounds brutally raided Occupy Oakland and arrested more than 80 demonstrators yesterday, President Obama arrived in the …
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Oct 19 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
After spending the last year covering undercovered activism, it’s heartening to see the Occupy Wall Street movement gain so much momentum.
While the movement is getting the coverage it deserves in …
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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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