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GUESTS: Rob Kaplowitz, Associate Artistic Director of Relentless Theatre Company, Kittson O’Neill and Tom Lenoci, actors

Jigsaw Nation is a new traveling theater piece by the Relentless Theater Company which seeks answers to the question, “What does American mean to you?” The theater piece is based on man-on-the-street interviews conducted by Gary Winter, Marjorie …

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… on the “New Jewel Movement” in Granada.

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GUEST: Nadia Martinez, Policy analyst for Institute for Policy Studies

For the past five days, US President Bush and Venezuelan President Chavez have traveled around Latin America, trading barbs from afar. The two have not set foot in the same country at the same time. While Bush has been defending his administration’s record …

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American Express has launched a new method of credit card payment using radio frequency identification technology. Their Express Pay card …

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GUESTS: filmmakers Jauretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal, filmmakers of East of Havana

“East of Havana” is a new documentary by first time filmmakers Jauretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal that explores the Cuban experience through the lens of Hip Hop. The film follows the lives of three Afro-Cuban rappers, Mikki Flow, Magyori, 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 4th Anniversary of Iraq War – Part 1.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …

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… on the 1864 letter about the surrender of the Navajo People.

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GUESTS: Shannon Young, Headlines editor for Free Speech Radio News, Vladmir Flores, FSRN Correspondent and works with Mal de Ojo TV, an independent media collective

Earlier this week, victims of repression in the Mexican state of Oaxaca publicly denounced ongoing injustices committed by local government authorities. The pronouncements were made during hearings of …

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GUEST: Joel Westheimer, Professor and University Research Chair in Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa and the co-Director of DemocraticDialogue.com

In the days after the twin towers fell on September 11, 2001, American citizens and residents took up US flags in droves, on their cars, in front of their homes and businesses, …

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GUEST: Brian De Shazor, Director of the Pacifica Radio Archives

We turn next to an update from the Pacifica Radio Archives, considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. The Pacifica Radio Archives have chronicled the political, cultural and artistic movements of the second half …

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