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… called The Mayflower Leaves the Plymouth Colony.

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GUEST: Tripp Van Noppen, Vice President of Litigation at Earth Justice

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Clean Air Act gives the federal Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gases. In a sharply divided vote of 5-4, the high court decided against the EPA’s assertion that it had no mandate to regulate …

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GUESTS: Michael Tucker, Petra Epperline, co-producers and co-directors of “The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

In September 2003, Iraqi photojournalist Yunis Khatayer Abbas, was arrested along with his three brothers, in his home in Baghdad. For the US soldiers who conducted the raid, it was all in a day’s work. For Yunis, it …

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GUESTS: John Wilson, Security Officer, Reverend Lewis Logan, Stand for Security Coalition

Today, on the 39th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, security guards and their supporters will rally in Los Angeles for their labor rights. Last November, a four year campaign by the Sevice Employees International Union, SEIU, and community leaders from …

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… about The Historical Significance of the ‘Dixie’ Song .

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GUEST: Leonard Isenberg, public school teacher

Despite already lagging test scores, newly released data showed that LA Unified High School students scored even lower in the past year, dropping 20 points below compared to the previous year. The new LAUSD superintendent David Brewer III said the high-school scores are attributed to a stubborn gap between white and minority students. The data …

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… about The First Publication of TV Guide.

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GUEST: Roberto Lovato, a frequent contributor to The Nation, and New York-based writer with New America Media, former president of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission.

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has been in the center of a firestorm of controversy for his role in the firing of 8 US prosecutors. Members of …

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GUEST: Scott Stedjan is the National Coordinator of the United States Campaign to Ban Landmines and works on arms control and conflict prevention for the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL).

Earlier this year Norway hosted the Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions where nearly 50 country representatives met to discuss the devastating effects of …

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GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

More than 400 Haitians, allegedly gang members, have been arrested since the beginning of the year in operations by the Haitian National Police (HNP). The HNP are backed by United Nations police and military to ostensibly crack down on violent crime. …

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