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Guest: Josh Golin, Program Manager with Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Massachusetts’ Public Health Committee recently recommended for approval a bill that would restrict corporate advertising on school grounds. If passed, the “Act Relative to the Public Health Impact of Commercialism in Schools,” would be at the legislative forefront of a growing movement …

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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about prisons and the Green Party. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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… about the End of the Pullman Strike.

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GUEST: Nader Sadeghi, Board member of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, and professor of surgery at George Washington University

Earlier this week we discussed the US’s proposed arms deal to several Gulf Arab nations. The plan was designed to hem in the Iranian regime. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice …

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GUEST: Ana Castillo, author of “The Guardians”

As temperatures soar over a hundred degrees along the US-Mexico border, nearly three hundred Mexicans attempting to cross over have been found dead. The fates of countless other immigrants who have gone missing remain unknown. The trauma to family members of missing immigrants is imagined in …

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GUEST: Kelani Key, Outreach Coordinator Trans/gender Variant in Prison Committee (TIP)

Last Tuesday, closing arguments were heard in the case of Alexis Giraldo, a transgender Latina who is suing the California state prison system. Giraldo alleges that in 2006, Folsom State Prison staff members ignored her pleas for help as her cellmate repeatedly raped …

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… about James Baldwin’s birthday.

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GUESTS: Chris Kromm, Executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies, and founder of Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, Vanita Rogers, Member of the New Orleans Survivors Council from the Lower 9th Ward

Yesterday was the deadline for survivors of Hurricane Katrina to apply for state funds for homeowners. Louisiana’s Road Home grant program …

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GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal. political prisoner, award winning journalist, radio commentator, and author

In a follow-up to our story in May about the case of Mumia Abu Jamal being heard by the 3rd Circuit US Court of Appeals, we present an interview with the man himself. Abu Jamal has been in prison for …

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GUEST: John Earl, editor of the Orange Coast Voice, B. Kwaku Duren, attorney representing Coyotl Tezcatlipoca

The criminal trial for Costa Mesa immigrant rights activist Coyotl Tezcatlipoca is set to begin on August 15th. Tezcatlipoca is accused of two misdemeanor offenses stemming from a January 2006 Costa Mesa city council meeting. In the incident in …

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