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GUEST: Gerardo Reyes, staff member with Coalition of Immokalee Workers

A few weeks ago we informed you about how tomato pickers in Florida were targeting McDonald’s corporation for better working conditions, five years after their victory with Taco Bell. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in South West Florida had planned a Truth Tour in …

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GUESTS: Kim Abeles and Jeff Cain, artists, Constanza Zieytes and Way Spurr-Chen students at Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts

In a project designed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ArtScene Visual Radio (AVR), a hundred high school students have been collaborating with teachers and artists, in particular women artists in Los Angeles to produce research and online multi-media. The …

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… about the other side of Albert Einstein .

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GUEST: Malalai Joya, the youngest member of the Afghan Parliament, representing Farah Province

Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan killed seven NATO soldiers recently. The act was likely a retaliation for NATO’s biggest anti-Taliban offensive to date. Meanwhile an Afghan freelance journalist and his translator, who had been kidnapped along with Italian journalist Daniele …

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GUESTS: John Miller, National Coordinator of East Timor and Indonesia Action Network, Jill Sternberg, Election Observers Coordinator for SOMET (Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor)

Polls closed yesterday in East Timor as one of the world’s youngest nations held its first presidential elections since voting for independence 8 years ago. East Timor formally …

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GUEST: John Davis, Recyclable Resource Consultant with Wildlife Conservancy

More than a dozen environmental groups have recently spoken out against the City of Los Angeles’ “Green Path Project.” The project is an environmental plan that will allow the shipment of solar, geothermal, and nuclear power from remote rural areas to urban …

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… about the Assassination of Emiliano Zapata .

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GUEST: Luis Rodriguez, poet and author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., and Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times Susan Cruz, Executive Director of Sin Fronteras

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced new enforcement policies last Wednesday on undocumented immigrant gang members. Under …

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GUEST: Cornel West, author of Race Matters, and Democracy Matters, professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University

Cornel West is one of the US’s most gifted, provocative, and important public intellectuals. He is a professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University and formerly taught at Harvard University. He is …

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GUEST: Peter Neufeld, cofounder of the Innocence Project

In 1986, a 21 year old black man named Herman Atkins was convicted of rape, robbery, the use of a gun and forced oral copulation by a white woman in Riverside County. He was sentenced to 47 years and 8 months in prison. Thirteen years later he …

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