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… about the Bayview Tragedy

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GUEST: Forrest Hylton, researcher in history at New York University, author of “Evil Hour in Colombia,” and frequent contributor to NACLA and New Left Review

The International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol, is in the midst of an investigation of documents on a seized laptop allegedly belonging to Raul Reyes. Reyes, the leader of the Colombian …

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GUEST: Minky Worden, Media Director of Human Rights Watch, editor of China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges

With less than a hundred days before the start of the summer Beijing games, the Olympics torch finally made its way back to China. The flame returned to the host country on Wednesday after the …

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GUESTS: Ann Kaneko, director of “Against the Grain,” Fatimah Rony, director of “Chant From An Island,” one of four short films collectively called “Chants of Lotus”

The 24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film festival showcases over 160 films and videos from around the world this week, launching the celebration of Asian Pacific …

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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 on on Iowa and prisons. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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… about King Leopold’s Establishment of ‘the Congo Free State’

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GUEST: Raj Patel, author of “Stuffed and Starved,” former policy analyst for Food First, researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley

Today we examine the global food industry in an effort to understand the international food crisis. Last month Haitians marched …

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… about Chicago’s May Day march for an 8 hour work day

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GUEST: Marco Simmons, Legal Director of EarthRights International

A new report by EarthRights International has found that state soldiers in Burma, guarding a Chevron pipeline have killed nearby villagers while ordering others to serve as forced labor. Earthrights accuses the Burmese military of murder and rape, and draws its conclusions from interviews with villagers as …

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GUESTS: Garrick Ruiz, core volunteer with Garment Workers Center, Shuming Cheer, Civil rights coordinator at South Asian Network, Taina Reyes, Director of the Santa Ana office of Hermandad Mexicana Latino Americana

Tomorrow is May Day and workers around the world and here in the US are marking the workers rights day with rallies, protests, …

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