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GUEST: Shahidul Alam, world renowed photographed

From now until June 5, Shahidul Alam is visiting the UCLA campus to lecture on the impact of technology on the shape of modern journalism. This week, he delivered two lectures at UCLA. The first, entitled “Publishing From the Streets: Citizen Journalism,” explored how activist communities have …

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GUESTS: Danny Glover, actor and Executive Producer and Joslyn Barnes, Executive Producer of Bamako

Opening at the Nuart Theater in LA for a one week run, Bamako is a new film set in Mali, which explores the destruction of Africa at the hands of global financial institutions. Bamako is the capital and largest …

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GUEST: Tammy Bang Luu, national planning committee for the US Social Forum, Hamid Khan, Executive Director of the South Asian Network

The first ever United States Social Forum will take place in Atlanta, Georgia under the banner of “Another World is Possible/ Another US is Necessary.” Beginning June 27th, 20,000 activists, trade unionists, students, …

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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 on Barack Obama. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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… about Sojourner Truth .

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GUESTS: Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director of New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, Ruth Castel-Branco, Outreach/Communications Coordinator, 50 Years Is Enough Network

On Wednesday, President Bush nominated Robert B. Zoellick as a candidate for Managing Director of the World Bank. Zoellick had previously served in high-ranking foreign policy and economic policy posts under three …

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GUEST: Steven Watt, Staff Attorney for the ACLU’s Human Rights Program

Yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against a subsidiary of Boeing Corporation for its participation in the U.S. government’s “extraordinary rendition” program. Jeppesen Dataplan Incorporated is being sued on behalf of three men who the ACLU said were abducted …

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GUEST: Bill Haley, Alex Haley’s son

Thirty years ago this year, the mini series based on Alex Haley’s ground breaking book, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” aired on television in the US, casting a spell across the country. Alex Haley traced his ancestry back to a proud African tribesman named Kunta …

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… about the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.

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GUEST: Noam Chomsky, has taught Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than 50 years, author of dozens of books including “Hegemony or Survival,” and “Failed States”

Since 2002, the New York Times Syndicate has been distributing op-eds written by the pre-eminent foreign policy critic and scholar of our time, Noam …

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