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GUEST: Mateo Martinez, political analyst and philosopher, with the Center for the Study of Subaltern Thought, based in Ecuador

Yesterday, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced that he may call a special session of Congress to end a political crisis that has prevented the legislature from meeting. Correa recently approached the nation’s Electoral Tribunal to …

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GUEST: Vanessa Dixon, member of the Parents and Citizens Committee to Stop Medical Experimentation, based in Washington DC

Last June, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new vaccine produced by pharmaceutical giant, Merck, called Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccination aimed at preventing a viral form …

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GUEST: Mark Bryan, artist

Pictures in my Head is the name of an art exhibit currently showing at Carlotta’s Passion Fine Art in Eagle Rock, featuring several dozen paintings and works of art by Mark Bryan, with the theme of ridiculing today’s political figures like Bush, Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld, and in general …

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… on the LAPD Raid of a Los Angeles radio station.

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GUEST: Mahmoud Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and International Affairs, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University

On Monday, a UN human rights mission accused the Sudanese government of atrocities and characterized the situation in Darfur as a “gross and systematic violation of …

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GUESTS: Dr. Homa Hoodfar, Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, currently the interim coordinator of Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Nikki Akhavan, Board member of US Chapter of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Interventions in Iran

Two prominent Iranian feminists remain incarcerated following their arrest on March 4th, 2007 for participating …

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GUEST: David Bacon, labor journalist and photographer, author of “Children of NAFTA,” and programmer at KPFA, Pacifica Radio

Last week the California Nurses Association and its national arm, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, joined the AFL-CIO, after the national labor federation announced its official support of a single payer health care system. The CNA …

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… on the invention of the Cotton Gin.

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GUESTS: Violet Gonzalez, mother of Academia student, member of Padres Unidos of Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Mixpe Ley, community activist

Academia Semillas del Pueblo in El Sereno is an LAUSD charter school that is facing closure. It is one of several schools in the district being evaluated on the basis of charter renewal. …

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GUEST: Josef Avesar, founder of the Israeli- Palestinian Confederation

Josef Avesar is an Israeli-born lawyer based in Southern California. But in his spare time, as founder of the Israeli- Palestinian Confederation, Josef tries to convince anyone who will listen, that he has found a potential solution to the Middle-East conflict. Israelis and …

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