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… about Veracruz and the Mexican-American War.

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GUEST: Gerardo Reyes, Staff member with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

After 4 years of boycotts against the Fast food giant, Taco Bell, a well organized coalition of immigrant and people of color workers won a huge victory in 2005 for workers rights. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Southwest Florida, consisting of mostly …

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GUEST: Carl Colpaert, director of “G.I. Jesus”

A new film by independent film maker explores the issues of war, immigration and post-traumatic stress syndrome all at once. Carl Colpaert’s new film, G.I. Jesus, features a Mexican immigrant who serves in the US military in Iraq in order to obtain citizenship. Actor Joe …

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GUEST: Gerardo Gomez, organizer of People’s Assembly on Homelessness

This weekend, homeless persons and their supporters will hold a “people’s assembly” to address the roots of homelessness in Los Angeles. The assembly will consist of a series of panels focusing on six central issues. Homeless persons and other panelists will speak about affordable …

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… about The New Zealand Land Wars.

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GUEST: Teresa Montano, Professor of Chicano/Chicana Studies at Cal State Northridge, Vice President of CSUN’s CFA (California Faculty Association) chapter, and on the Board of Directors of CFA

California State University faculty have been bracing for a strike which could be the largest in US history. Last Sunday, a strike was temporarily staved …

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GUEST: Pamela Paul, author of “Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families

In 1998, Federal law makers drafted the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, with the intent of protecting children from porn and other indecent material on the Web. The law would have fined commercial Web …

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GUEST: Maritza Galvez, Youth Justice Coalition

Starting tonight, California’s grassroots juvenile justice organization, Youth Justice Coalition, will be taking bus-loads of activists from Los Angeles to Sacramento to begin a Beyond Prisons day statewide campaign for progressive reforms in the juvenile justice system. They also plan to challenge Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plans to …

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… about the first Chicano Youth Liberation Conference.

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GUEST: Christine Ahn, Policy analyst with the Korea Policy Institute, coordinating the campaign with the Korean-Americans for Fair Trade

The US and South Korea are working feverishly on a free-trade deal before the end of this month. South Korea warned today that there would be no agreement if the US insisted …

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