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GUEST: Matt Gonzalez, running mate alongside Ralph Nader

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has embarked on a tour of the West Coast states as part of his presidential campaign. Nader returned to Oregon earlier this week where, four years ago, he made three failed attempts to make it onto the Oregon ballot and then …

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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is called “Extreme Prosecution: In Search of Black Enemies”. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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GUEST: Raphael Leib, organizer with SEIU, Myra Tovias, janitorial worker in downtown Los Angeles

Los Angeles janitors launched unfair labor practice strikes yesterday at strategic locations across the county. Hundreds of janitors reportedly walked off the job at about 20 buildings on LA’s Westside starting last night around 10 pm. The strikes are the result of …

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GUEST: Penny Coleman, widow of a Vietnam War veteran who took his own life after coming home, author of “Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War”

The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee held a hearing this Tuesday called “The Truth About Veteran Suicides” during which lawmakers blasted officials from the Department of Veterans …

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GUESTS: Ingrid Marquez, Director, Fanny Garcia, Writer, Jackie Bustamante, Actress

Nationwide, people of color in the United States now account for the majority of new AIDS cases and deaths from the disease. Within the Latino community, in particular, the rate of infection is increasingly disproportionate. Accounting for 14% of the U.S. population, Latinos …

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… about the US Postal Service

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GUEST: Edith Mirante, Director of Project MAJE, and author of “Down the Rathole: Adventures Underground on Burma’s Frontiers”

The death toll in Burma following the wake of destruction left by Cyclone Nargis this past weekend could reach 63,000. The ruling military junta has confirmed 22,464 deaths while noting that another 41,000 are missing and feared …

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GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and author of several books including “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How it Changed America”

More than forty years ago, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. stood atop a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4th 1968, when …

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GUEST: Emily Rochon, Climate and Energy Coordinator for Greenpeace International, lead author of the report, “False Hope: Why carbon capture and storage won’t save the climate”

Earlier this week , oil giant ExxonMobil announced plans to complete the development and testing of a natural gas treatment plant to “make carbon capture and storage (or CCS) more …

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