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GUEST: Jeff Chester, Executive Diector from the Center for Digital Democracy, author of the new book “Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy”

With the high profile purchases of popular websites such as Myspace.com and Youtube.com by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Google respectively, and with large telecom companies seeking to undermine …

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GUESTS: Sali Heraldez, Director of Sol Art Gallery and Cafe, Adriana Albar Sanchez, Community Relations Director

A thirty day eviction notice, dated on January 5th, was served to Sol Art Gallery and Cafe in Santa Ana. The owner of the Main Street block in Santa Ana where …

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… on the US Minimum Wage Being Raised to 75 c.

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GUEST: Latosha Brown, Executive Director of the Center for Citizen Participation, and with Truth Speaks Communications

On Saturday, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her entry into the 2008 presidential election. In a videotaped announcement released on her campaign website, Senator Clinton said, “I’m in. And I’m in to win.” If elected, the Democratic Senator from New …

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GUEST: Dr. Harold Goldstein, Executive Director of California Center for Public Health Advocacy

A new study by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy has found that healthy food choices are hard to come by in the state. Searching for Healthy Food concluded that there are more than four …

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Last week, a powerful storm struck several European countries leaving forty …

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… on Leonard Peltier.

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GUEST: Micheal Guerrero, Executive Director of Grassroots Global Justice

Grassroots Global Justice is an alliance of over 50 U.S.-based grassroots groups that have been organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people. For over five years, GGJ has been bringing organizations who are frontline to the impacts of globalization in the …

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GUEST: Celia Wexler, Vice President for Advocacy with Common Cause

In the week before former Republican Congressman Bob Ney is sentenced to prison for corruption, Senate Republicans en masse voted late Wednesday night to kill the Lobbying and Ethics reform bill (S. 1). Following the same procedural trick Congressional Republicans used last year to kill …

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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 State of the Union Address

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