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GUESTS: Gina Wood, Deputy Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Ron David, M.D.Co-chair, National Commission on Infant Mortality

According to a recently released report, black infant mortality rates in the United States are more than twice the number suffered by white populations. Authored by a commission sponsored by …

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GUEST: Jesus A. Reyes, Director with East LA Rep

East LA Rep, a group dedicated to promoting the essential role of Latino theater to the American stage, put out a call for works from prominent playwrights. Many responded, offering pieces that never been produced in Los Angeles. Over the next four weekends, 14 contemporary playwrights, ranging from …

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… aboutThe Death of Lois Waisbrooker.

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GUEST: Mateo Martinez, Political Advisor for the Ecuadoran Government

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa celebrated the overwhelming majority gained by his ruling coalition in Sunday’s constituent assembly elections. As unofficial results continue to come in, President Correa predicted that his ruling Alianza Pais party would take 80 of the 130 available seats. The constituent assembly will convene on …

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GUEST: Majorie Cohn, Professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, author of Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law

The Supreme Court began its new term yesterday amid high profile cases surrounding the death penalty and Guantanamo. The high court has already rejected some 2,000 appeals, including one by Guantanamo prisoner Salim …

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GUESTS: Thomas Yee, with J-Town Voice, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, who Works with the Tuesday night Project, and is a member of the Little Tokyo Rec Center Board

With only three Japantowns left in California, local residents of Downtown L.A.’s Little Tokyo face the threat of gentrification. American Commercial Equities bought Japanese Village Plaza in July, and 3D Investments …

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In an update to a story we’ve been following for close to two years: the case against Coyotl Tezcatlipoca was dismissed yesterday by the presiding judge. Coyotl was silenced by the local mayor, arrested and beaten by cops after respectfully speaking out a Costa Mesa City Council meeting in January of 2006. After the ACLU filed a lawsuit on his behalf, the Costa Mesa City “Prosecutor” charged Coyotl. Coyotl’s case was dismissed because it turns …

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… about Ward Churchill.

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GUEST: Marie Trigona, member of Grupo Alavio, a Direct Action and Video Collective – and a correspondent for Free Speech Radio news, based in Buenos Aires

Workers throughout Argentina are organizing in support of a national expropriation law – even as some of the country’s best-known worker-run enterprises face legal limbo and eviction. The high rise BAUEN …

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GUEST: Elizabeth Ross, Africa Program Director at Relief International

African Union teams continue to search today for the more than twenty peacekeeping troops missing following an attack on their camp in Darfur. Hundreds of armed men in 30 vehicles assaulted, looted and destroyed the Haskanita base in Sudan last Saturday night. Twelve African Union peacekeeping troops are …

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