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GUEST: Pramod Parajuli, Professor at Portland State University and founding executive director of the Portland International Initiative for Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning

Maoists in Nepal are celebrating a victory that has left everybody including themselves, stunned. The Maoist Communist Party of Nepal won the biggest majority in the the country’s new governing assembly …

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GUESTS: Joshua Bush, Interim Director of South Central Youth Empowered Thru Action (part of the Community Coalition, Diana Escobar and Joseph Walker from Manual Arts High School

Yesterday, students from the group, “South Central Youth Empowered Thru Action” presented to the head of LA’s School board the results of a peer based survey of …

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GUEST: Thea Lee, Policy Director at AFL-CIO

In an unprecedented move, six Guatemalan labor unions alongside the AFL-CIO filed a complaint this week citing violations of workers’ rights under the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The Guatemalan government is being accused of failing to uphold agreed-upon labor provisions. Since the …

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GUEST: Bruce Dixon is a writer and radio commentator and the Managing Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about gun control and the second amendment. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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GUEST: Manuel Pérez Rocha is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he leads an initiative on the Security and Prosperity Partnership

This week political and business leaders from the three North American countries have gathered in New Orleans for a meeting called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) to discuss ways …

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GUESTS: Doug Dutton, owner of Dutton’s Books in Brentwood, Rueben Martinez, Literacy Advocate, owner of Libreria Martinez,

As the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is set to take place this weekend, two Southern California independent bookstores face closure. Dutton’s Books in Brentwood is set to close its doors on April 30th after …

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GUESTS: Arthur Zitrin, Emeritus professor of psychiatry at the NY University School of Medicine, Celeste Fitzgerald, program director of New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Last week, the US Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to death by lethal injection in the state of Kentucky. The Baze vs. Rees decision will end the death penalty …

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… about Mumia Abu Jamal

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GUEST: Suzan Erem, General Manager of “Voices of Central Pennsylvania,” and co-author of “On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleton Five”

Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary election for the Democratic nomination yesterday leading her rival Barack Obama by 55-45%. Her victory in another big state has sparked new hope in …

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