• Listen to this segment

GUEST: Lucas Guttentag the Director of the ACLU Immigrant’s Rights Project

In a follow-up to a story we covered recently the Department of Homeland Security asked last Friday that the federal case over Social Security “No Match” letters be suspended. The Bush Administration had originally hoped to use social security records as a tool …

Read more

• Listen to this segment

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 commentary is about declining violence in Iraq.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …

• Listen to This Radical Day in History

… about the Treaty of Hopewell

Produced by Radio Rootz.

Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org …

• Listen to this segment

GUEST: Ben Dangl, author of “The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia” published this year by AK Press, live from Cochabamba

At least four people have died in violent confrontations in Sucre, Bolivia, where the framework for a new constitution was approved on Saturday. Although each article has yet to be …

Read more

• Listen to this segment

GUEST: Lee Zaslofsky, Coordinator of the War Resisters Support Campaign, joining us live from Toronto, Canada

The Canadian Arab Federation is the latest in a group of growing voices demanding that US War resisters fleeing this country be allowed to stay in Canada. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear …

Read more

• Listen to this segment

GUEST: Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange and co-author of a new book called “Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots”

Members of Congress are working on passing a sweeping energy bill this year. As part of that bill, they may adopt separate fuel economy standards for cars and …

Read more

• Listen to This Radical Day in History

… about the first lion exhibit in the US

Produced by Radio Rootz.

Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org …

• Listen to this segment

GUEST: Gerado Gomez, Homelessness Activist

Project 50 is the name of a new homeless program that is expected to be approved by Los Angeles County supervisors. Though details of the project have yet to be finalized, its stated objective is to assist fifty of the most vulnerable homeless persons in downtown LA’s skid row. Caseworkers will …

Read more

• Listen to this segment

GUEST: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Editor for Free Speech Radio News

Congress is considering amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) – and the telecom industry is weighing in. Despite a veto threat from President Bush, the House vote to pass changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) last week, which denies retroactive immunity …

Read more

• Listen to this segment

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

Forty years after the capture and murder of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Cuban teachers have significantly reduced illiteracy rates in the Bolivian town of Vallegrande. Che Guevara was buried in an unmarked grave for decades in Vallegrande before his remains were exhumed and …

Read more