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GUEST: Robert Perez, Freeze Relief Director with the United Farm Workers

This week is Farmworkers Awareness week and today we focus on the struggles of California’s farm workers in the face of last winter’s freeze that left thousands of people with no work, and no pay. At the request of Governor Schwarzenegger, …

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GUEST: California State Senator Gloria Romero

California State Senator Gloria Romero is sponsoring a bill to make the Honor Program at the State Prison in Los Angeles County the law. The bill would continue the program as well as lay the foundations for a statewide expansion. Originally created in 2000 by non-custody staff and …

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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 “the fight over Iraq appropriations”
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… about the US Naturalization Law of 1790 .

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GUESTS: Jorge-Mario Cabrera, CARECEN spokesperson for the Committee for Justice for all Families, Nativo Lopez, National President of Hermandad Mexicana and President of the Mexican American Political Association

Congress will be considering a broad bi-partisan bill on immigration that will create a new guest-worker program, stiffen worker verification procedures and overhaul the visa …

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GUESTS: Jeff Chang, Hip-Hop Journalist and author of “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop,” editor of “Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop,” Brian Cross, Hip-Hop Photojournalist and contributor to “Total Chaos”

Author Jeff Chang follows up his trailblazing book, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” on the social political history of Hip Hop …

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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 about “White Preference for Black Immigrants.” Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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… about Marcus Garvey.

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GUEST: Monica Guizar, Employment Policy Attorney with the National Immigration Law Center

Last Monday, Mission Viejo’s City Council unanimously passed an ordinance to require city contractors to screen their employees’ immigration status. By a vote of five to zero, the affluent Orange County city of Mission Viejo has become the first in …

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GUESTS: Sumun Pendakur and Reena Dutt, actors, Rubaiyat Karim, South Asian Network

A San Francisco based group, South Asian Sisters collected stories from South Asian women from all over the US over the last three years on the topics of gender, sexuality and the vagina. They have compiled the stories with a …

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