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GUEST: Mark Rukavina, Director of the Access Project

“Borrowing to Stay Healthy: How Credit Card Debt is Related to Medical Expenses,” is the title of a new report released by Demos and the Access Project. Illustrating the connection between high credit card debt and medical expenses, the report has found that more and more Americans …

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… on the Roe V. Wade.

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GUEST: Gregory Wilpert, editor at VenezuelaAnalysis.com, and author of the forthcoming book, “Venezuela and the Quest for 21st Century Socialism”

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez recently attended a two-day summit of Mercosur leaders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He claimed he had come to “decontaminate” the South American geopolitical trade project of its “Neo-Liberalism.” Chavez’s visit …

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GUEST: Dr. Waltraud “Trudi” Q. Morales, Professor of Political science at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of “Bolivia: Land of Struggle” and more recently “A Brief History of Bolivia”

Demonstrations in Cochabamba, Bolivia over the past several weeks have led to two deaths and many injuries. The demonstrators, mainly …

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GUESTS: John Montana, plays the lead role of Michael, and Mac Brandt, plays the role of Sean, who saves Michael’s daughter

British playwright Chris Thorpe has written a new play called “Safety” about the increasing desensitization to the horrors of war. The central character in the play, Michael, is an internationally-renowned war photographer …

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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 called “Lies in the American Political Discourse.” Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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GUESTS, Alex Sanchez, Executive Director of Homies Unidos, Alex Alonso, founder of Streetgangs.com

Yesterday, the Advancement Project presented its recently released report on gang violence to the Los Angeles City Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development. The report described the past two decades of gang prevention in Los Angeles, as a …

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GUEST: Jennifer Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media

Over three thousand people attended last weekend’s National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tennessee. Among the activists, experts and concerned citizens who gathered were Bill Moyers, Helen Thomas, Jesse Jackson, Jane Fonda, Danny Glover, Geena Davis and Amy Goodman. The conference, organized by Free …

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… on the Mangas Coloradas Killed by the US.

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GUESTS: Jim Sandoval, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Yolanda Moses, Professor of Anthropology and Special Assistant to the Chancellor on Excellence and Diversity

Whereas UCLA faced an enrollment crisis in terms of diversity this past fall, the campus of UC Riverside has seen an increase in the ethnic diversity of its student body in …

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