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… about the Roswell Incident

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GUESTS: Cole Dorsey, IWW Starbucks Workers Union, Beltrán Roca Martínez Secretary of
Union Action, Local Federation of CNT – AIT

It’s official: Starbucks’ hunger for expansion has created it’s very own monster. For the past four years, the mega-coffee chain has engaged in an incredible expansion boom that often puts two or more stores near one other. …

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GUEST: Medusa, rapper, musician, actress

Los Angeles underground rapper Medusa is considered by many as the West Coast queen of hip hop. For more than fifteen years, she has made her presence known as an actress and musician everywhere from Leimert Park’s “Project Blowed” workshop, to scoring films and soundtracks. Dubbed also as the “Angela Davis …

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GUEST: Sean Heitkemper, KPFK’s new General Manager

KPFK is a listener-sponsored radio station – meaning you the listener, rather than corporate advertising, keeps this station financially solvent. So instead of being accountable to our advertisers, we report to you. And in that spirit, today I’d like to introduce KPFK’s new General Manager, Sean Heitkemper. At only 36 years …

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… about Iran Air Flight 655

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GUEST: Pervez Hoodbhoy, peace activist, Professor of Physics at Qaid-e-Azam University

The war in Afghanistan has intensified, becoming a more dangerous place for troops to serve than even Iraq. More US and NATO soldiers were killed in Afghanistan than Iraq in the second month in a row – a clear indication that the Taliban and …

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GUEST: Dean Preston, Executive Director of Tenants Together, Larry Gross, Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Survival

Last month, voters in California soundly rejected Proposition 98 which would have eroded tenant rights under the guise of eminent domain. The proposed amendment that would have, among other things, phased out rent control only garnered 39% …

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GUEST: Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch

Jobs in the bottled water industry are few, low-paying, and dangerous. This, according to an analysis of the industry released last week by the consumer advocacy group Food &Water Watch. According to the report, titled, “Unbottled Truth About Bottled Water Jobs,” in 2006, a …

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… about Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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GUEST: John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies

US food aid arrived in North Korea earlier this week in a move that signaled an about-turn in relations between the two countries. Just days earlier, North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program – …

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