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GUEST: Laura Flanders, host of Radio Nation on Air America Radio, and author of several books including Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians

Most of us recall the images on our TV and computer screens the night before the 2004 presidential election when maps of the United States broken up …

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Kurt Vonnegut, interviewed by Larry Josephson in 1970 from the Pacifica Radio Archives

Kurt Vonnegut, a seminal figure in American literature, died on Wednesday night at the age of 84. The prolific author of over a dozen essays, short stories, plays and novels including “Cat’s Cradle,” and “Breakfast of Champions,” passed away after suffering brain …

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GUESTS: Ysanne Spevack, organizer of the Step it Up 2007 campaign at the Hollywood sign, and editor of OrganicFoodee.com, Bill McKibben, Founder of Step It Up 2007, author of Deep Economy

Tomorrow activists across the US are holding hundreds of demonstrations, rallies, speaking events, film screenings, and other events to protest actions that lead to global …

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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 Kucinich and the Mainstream Media. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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GUEST: Jill Nelson, journalist and activist, and author of “Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman” and editor of the anthology “Police Brutality.” Nelson also contributes to a group blog with Women in Media and News

Radio Shock Jock Don Imus recently exposed his racism and sexism by calling the all-female …

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GUESTS: Rita Valencia, playwright, Niamh McCormally and Gray Palmer, actors

“A New World War” is opening this Saturday, April 14 at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theater on Melrose. “A New World War” is a sci-fi political comedy produced by Padua Playwrights. The play tells the story of a young woman in the …

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GUESTS: Glenn Bell, Neighborhood Friends, Samii Taylor, Legislative Advocate with the Windsor Group

Rising rents in Southern California are so high these days that even living in a mobile home has become unaffordable. Rising rents are particularly problematic for the nearly three quarters of mobile home residents who are senior citizens. Mobile home …

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… about the Colfax Massacre .

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GUESTS: Carmen Ramirez, Vice President, Central Coast Alliance United for A Sustainable Economy (CAUSE), Lupe Anguiano, Volunteer, Protecting our Environment, Maricela Morales, Mayor, Port Hueneme

The California Lands Commission earlier this week voted against a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal off the Southern California coast, after a day-long hearing. The …

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