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GUESTS: Christopher Sprinkle, story producer with Brave New Films, Robert Greenwald, filmmaker

Four years ago to this day, President George W. Bush boarded the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego and proclaimed “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. Bush’s declaration was intended to signal the end of major combat operations in …

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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’s commentary is on Colombia and the War on Terror

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On April 29th 1992, a predominantly white jury acquitted four LAPD officers in the videotaped beating of a black man named Rodney King. That evening existing unrest in Los Angeles, sparked by the verdict, resulted in the outbreak of an all-out riot that lasted five days. A total of 53 people died: …

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GUESTS: Travielle J Craig, inmate at Lancaster Prison, Janice Cosey, Travielle’s mother

While thousands were arrested on charges of assault, arson, and vandalism over several days, only three people were ever convicted of murder. A minor was charged with the murder of 65 year old Juana Espinosa and given a two year sentence …

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GUESTS: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Executive Director of the Community Coalition, Edward Park, Director and Associate Professor at the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University

Presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed South Central’s First AME Church on the 15th anniversary of what the LA Times called “the nation’s most violent modern civil uprising.” According to …

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GUEST: Gustavo Arellano, award winning columnist at the OC Weekly and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times

Was there ever anything you wanted to know about Mexicans, but were too politically correct to ask? For two years now, Gustavo Arellano of the OC Weekly has fielded numerous questions from readers about Mexicans in his notorious …

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GUESTS: Aquilina Soriano-Versoza, Director of Filipino Workers Center, Alma Castro, local youth activist, currently working with the March 25th Coalition, Lee Siu-Hin, National Coordinator of the National Immigrant Solidarity Network, also with Action-LA, Carolina Sarmiento, El Centro Cultural de Mexico

On May 1st last year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, immigrant advocates, and …

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GUEST: Brian Domanick, collective member at the New Standard

The New Standard, an independent, non-profit, and commercial free online newspaper, published its last edition today. The five staffers who form the collective of journalists that manage The New Standard came to the conclusion that they could no longer continue without a greater …

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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 and Dennis Kucinich. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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