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GUEST: Bernie Horn, Senior Director for Policy and Communications at the Center for Policy Alternatives, author of “Framing the Future: How Progressives can Win Elections and Influence People”

Polls consistently show that most Americans espouse progressive values such as affordable healthcare for all, curbing global warming, protecting abortion rights, stricter gun control, etc. …

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GUEST: Ramona Africa, Minister of Information for MOVE organization

Page 123 of the 2008 Guiness Book of World Records lists the 1985 bombing of the MOVE organization in Philadelphia as the sixth most deadly mass suicide in recent history. The entry is listed under the section, “Mass Suicides” (additionally MOVE is listed as a cult …

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… about the 1847 invention of the revolver pistol by Samuel Colt

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GUEST: Bob Norman, columnist for New Times, Broward/Palm Beach in Florida

Last week, a Miami federal court declared a mistrial in the case of six men accused of plotting to wage war against the United States by blowing up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Jurors acquitted one man and failed to reach verdicts for …

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GUESTS: Floppy, Guin, Anne, members of Everybody’s Kitchen project

A group of activists have been traveling the country in a school bus, cooking food and feeding people in communities from New Orleans to Los Angeles. They call themselves Everybody’s Kitchen and base their work on the belief that no one should ever go hungry. The bus …

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GUESTS: Lalo Alcaraz and Estaban Zul, hosts of Pocho Hour of Power

This Friday December 21st, one of KPFK’s most popular programs, The Pocho Hour of Power, will be hosting The Pocho Night of Power, in an event hosted by Culture Clash. The event will feature local musicians and bands such as Mezklah, …

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GUEST: Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen

In the aftermath of the Bali Climate Conference, which world leaders are calling, “historic,” the US appears to have destroyed all hopes for international agreement on ending global warming. Even worse than the outcome of the Kyoto talks, 190 nations agreed that while something had …

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GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus

Last week, the New Jersey State legislature voted to pave the way for the state to become the first in four decades to repeal the death penalty. Governor John Corzine, long in favor of abolishing capital punishment, is expected in to sign into law the …

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GUEST: Marc Becker, Latin American Historian

The United States is on the verge of losing one of its last military outposts in Latin America. Manta Airport in Ecuador is currently on a ten-year lease to the US, signed in 1999, and has been used to combat the drug trade and immigration, as well as for counterinsurgency …

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GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist

Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on the idea of a Black President

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