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GUEST: Stephen Braun, co-author of “Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible”

Last Thursday Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, aka the “Merchant of Death,” was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. The 41 year old Bout has sold weapons to fighters in some of the world’s most violent conflicts over …

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GUEST: Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Policy Program in Mexico where she has worked as a writer and political analyst for two decades

This May the Canadian city of Montreal will host the annual North American mock parliament called “the triumvirate.” Organized by the North American Forum on Integration, the event will bring …

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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 is about Ralph Nader.

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… about Cesar E. Chavez

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GUESTS: Avis Jones DeWeever, Director of the Research, Public Policy and Information Center at the National Council of Negro Women, Vicky Lovell, Director of Employment and Work/Life Programs at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Nearly 100 years ago this Saturday, 15,000 women workers in the so-called “needle trades,” marched through New York City’s Lower East Side, …

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GUESTS: Sussan Golmohammadi, Iranian women’s rights activist, Dr. Annalisa Enrile, National Chairperson of the Gabriela Network and a Professor at the USC School of Social Work, Claudia Mercado, independent film maker and co-founder of Mujeres de Maiz, InLakEch and Womyn Image Maker; Isaura Rivera Board Member and Assistant Coordinator with the FMLN del Sur de California; …

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March 8, 10:30 am: There will be an International Women’s Day March Against the war on Saturday March 8th at 10:30 am starting on the corner of Olympic and Broadway in Downtown LA, and heading to Pershing Square for a rally.

The event features artists Mystic, Guerilla Queenz, La Santa Cecelia, Skim, and Cihuatl-ce.

This event is organized by Mariposa Alliance and GABRIELA Network. For more information, visit www.gabnet.org, or …

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GUEST: Nancy Polikoff, author of “Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing all Families Under the Law”

Earlier this week, the California Supreme Court heard arguments over the constitutionality of a state ban on same-sex marriage. A three and a half hour hearing took place in San Francisco this Tuesday as both …

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GUESTS: George Gage, film makers of “Our Land, Our Life: The Struggle for Western Shoshone Land Rights”

In 1863, the US government signed the Treaty of Ruby Valley, giving the government certain rights over land in Nevada. Two Western Shoshone sisters, Mary and Carrie Dann were raising livestock on ancestral Shoshone lands …

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… about the Dred Scott decision

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