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GUEST: Janet Redman, Researcher at Sustainable Energy and Economy Network

The threat of global warming is being underestimated by the European Union and its international partners according to one of the world’s leading climatologists. Dr. James Hansen alongside other climate scientists suggested that carbon dioxide emission targets set by the EU are too conservative …

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… about Emiliano Zapata

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GUESTS: Melody Gonzalez, Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA), Romeo Ramirez, Farmworker and CIW member

Farmworkers in Florida are launching a new national campaign to end what they call “modern-day slavery” in tomato fields. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, or CIW, has a history of successful and creative organizing efforts for worker rights. CIW has embarked …

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GUEST: Gregorio Luke, International Lecturer, Former Director of the Museum of Latin American Art

Centennial celebrations continue in commemorating one hundred years since Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s birth. Major exhibitions on Kahlo’s art and life, such as the recent opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, show no signs of waning interest. Locally, Gregorio …

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GUEST: Chris Yazzie, Student Occupier of DQ University from the Rocky Ridge Navajo Nation

Last week, sheriffs from Yolo County arrested eighteen students, elders, and community supporters on the campus of D-Q University. Booked and released on charges of trespassing, the occupants were removed from California’s only tribal college at the request of the …

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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary reflects on the troop surge in Iraq.

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… about Eisenhower’s speech on the “communist threat” in Indonesia

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GUEST: Briggs Bomba, Program Associate for Public Education and Mobilization at Africa Action

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party held a politburo meeting today to discuss the nation’s elections this past weekend as hundreds of pro-Mugabe war veterans took to the streets of Harare. Last Saturday, Zimbabweans went to the polls casting their votes in …

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GUEST: Van Jones, founder and president Green For All

40 years ago today, the greatest civil rights leader of our time, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by a man named James Earl Ray. It was April 4th 1968. Dr. King was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel …

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GUEST: Joe Stork, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch

A report released earlier this week urged Israel to end discriminatory housing practices against Bedouin people living in villages and townships. Compiled by Human Rights Watch, the 130 page study found that the minority Arab group living in the Southern Negev desert faced systemic …

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