Jun 07 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.
When Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked into a New York City courtroom yesterday to deliver a ‘not guilty’ plea, over 200 female hotel workers greeted him by booing and screaming, “Shame on …
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Apr 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.
Citizens across the country continue to protest over drastic budget cuts to basic social services.
Last Monday, a dozen demonstrators, including people who are homeless, arrived at the Olympia, Washington, …
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Apr 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.
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster, one of the worst environmental catastrophes in US history. Gulf Coast resident Cherri Foytlin marked the anniversary by walking …
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Apr 12 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 next few months, men and boys across the country, from Jackson, Mississippi, to Ogden, Utah, will wear high heels to raise awareness about sexual assault and rape.
Walk …
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Mar 29 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.
Citizens across the country are taking to the streets to speak out against massive budget cuts affecting everything from health care centers for seniors to education.
On Saturday, an estimated 20,000 …
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Mar 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.
This past Saturday marked the 8th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. It came and went with barely a mention in the national media. Jane Arraf, an Al Jazeera …
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Mar 08 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.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. The Socialist Party of America first recognized this day in honor of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York, where …
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Mar 01 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 was the largest demonstration Madison, Wisconsin has seen since Vietnam. Over 100,000 people took to the freezing streets on Saturday to continue expressing their opposition to Republican Governor Scott …
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Feb 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.
The people power in Wisconsin has become too big for the media to ignore.
On Saturday, over 70,000 people took to the streets of Madison to oppose Republican Governor Scott Walker’s …
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Feb 15 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.
This week, environmental activists and members of Kids vs. Global Warming and Generation Hot are in Washington DC confronting what journalist Mark Hertsgaard calls climate cranks. These are the people …
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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