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GUEST: Frederick Clarkson, journalist and author who has written about the religious right for 25 years., and is the editor of Talk to Action, a national interactive blog site about the religious right

Reverend Jerry Falwell, one of the principle architects of the rise of the religious right, died yesterday of …

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GUESTS: John Foran, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Ellen McClure, 2nd year student at UCSB, on hunger strike

UC Santa Barbara students engaged in a hunger strike will head north today to San Francisco to attend a meeting of the UC Regents. They will be there …

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… about The Sedition Act of 1918 .

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GUESTS: Nelson Motto, lead organizer with IDEPSCA (Institute of Popular Education of Southern California), Marco Amador, Regional Organizer with NDLON (National Day Laborer Organizing Network)

Last week the driver and passenger of a White Ford Explorer reportedly picked up 6 day laborers in Rancho Cucamonga with promises of a job. The workers were apparently tied …

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GUESTS: Bo Taylor of Unity One, Dr. Jorja Leap, UCLA Department of Social Welfare, Gang Policy Advisor to Mayor Villaraigosa

Before Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa cut short his trip to Mexico earlier this month, he visited with President Antonio Saca of El Salvador to promote law-enforcement cooperation to counter the influence of transnational …

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GUEST: Ruthann Rudel, one of the authors of a new report compiling cancer research, Senior Scientist at Silent Spring Institute

A new study recently published in a journal of the American Cancer Society has found links between everyday chemicals and breast cancer. Co-authored by two advocacy groups and researched by five institutions, the study, …

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… about the origins of McDonalds .

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GUEST: Raed Jarrar, Iraq Consultant to the American Friends Service Committee

Last Tuesday more than half of Iraq’s Parliament voted to reject the US occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal. The petition was sponsored by the Al Sadr Movement, …

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GUEST: Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez of Venezuela

Venezuela, alongside other Latin American nations, condemned last week’s U.S. court decision to release Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who has been imprisoned for an act of international terrorism. A one time CIA employee, Posada had been convicted and imprisoned in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban …

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GUEST: Frannie Wellings, Associate Policy Director at Free Press

In late April we brought to your attention that a little known Congressional panel had approved a big increase in royalties on digital music retroactive to 2006, for companies that stream music over the Internet. The ruling changed the traditional model of paying a percentage …

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