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Immigrant Rights Protests Rock the Country In an unprecedented wave of protests, as many as two million people took to the streets Monday in more than 100 cities and towns around the country to march for immigrant rights. We hear some of the speakers at the largest rallies in New York and Washington and we speak with some of the demonstrators about why they are taking to the streets....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:31am PDT
An Alternative to Endless War and Perpetual Poverty 
Todd Chretien is a Green Party candidate running for the U.S. Senate against Dianne Feinstein. This article is reposted from CounterPunch where it was introduced by the statement: "What the Pentagon Budget Could Buy You."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:01pm PDT
Immigration Reform, Big Business, NAFTA and the Impact on the African American Workforce On Capitol Hill, the debate over immigration reform is heating up in Congress as protests for immigrant rights continue across the country. We speak with labor journalist David Bacon and University of Maryland professor Ron Walters....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 8:19pm PDT
Report Exposes Telecom Industry's Astroturf Lobbying Groups 
Common Cause on Tuesday released a new report exposing "Astroturf" lobbying groups and other allies created by the telecommunications industry to pressure lawmakers to enact industry-friendly policies as Congress debates critical issues worth billions of dollars to the industry....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 9:56am PST
Thousands of Students Defy Lockdowns and Continue Walkouts to Protest Anti-Immigrant Bill Tens of thousands of high school students have staged walkouts in protest over a House bill that proposes a sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants. We go to Los Angeles to speak with Jasmine Chavez, a 17-year old student at Montabello High School and Luis Rodriguez, a community activist, poet and writer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:23am PST
The True Story of the Historic 1968 Chicano Student Walkout in East L.A. "Walkout" - a new HBO film tells the story of the 1968 walkout by high school Chicano students in East Los Angeles to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions. We speak with the executive director of the film, Moctesuma Esparza. An award-winning film producer and community activist, Esparza helped organize the 1968 walkout and was arrested and jailed along with 12 others for conspiracy to disturb the peace....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:19am PST
Dianne Feinstein's Husband Why is this story important?
Here is a reminder:
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Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 6:08pm PST
Up to 2 Million Take to the Streets of L.A. To Demonstrate Against Anti-Immigrant Bill Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to demonstrate against a new anti-immigrant bill being considered by Congress. Crowd estimates range from 500,000 to 2 million. We speak with longtime immigrant rights activist Javier Rodriguez and United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:14am PST
Hammer Away The Loveall Lie At UFCW Local 588 
The Loveall's leadership at UFCW Local 588 want everybody to mark and mail their merger ballot in today. Here is the problem with their info....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 8:38am PST
3/25: Los Angeles: Half to 1 Million People Protest against Anti-Immigrant Law! Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 1:48am PST
Saint Patrick's Day 
Saint Patrick's Day shouldn't be reduced to drinking lots of tacky green beer and kissing everyone in sight. It's passing presents people with the opportunity to examine the history of nearly 900 years of Irish resistance that eventually led to their independence....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 11:20am PST
Death Penalty Issue Still Alive The California death penalty has a temporary moratorium resulting from medical professionals refusing to participate in the execution of Michael Morales. Now is the time to examine the failures of capital punishment and how the criminal justice system is completely out of control in California and America....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 10:52pm PST
4/7-9: The Faces of Wrongful Conviction Conference Check out this seminal conference on wrongful
convictions...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 10:12am PST
Raich v. Gonzales Hearing in Ninth Circuit - Mar 27th, Pasadena hearing date
for Raich v. Gonzales for Monday, March 27, 2006, at 1:30 in hearing room
Three, at the Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeal building, 125 South
Grand Avenue, Pasadena, California...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:29pm PST
PFP VOICE UNION CONCERNS The Democratic leadership in Sacramento and Washington has become silent on issues in government that will protect the working class and organized labor; and now to have a voice in government, working people must look beyond the emerging one party system for political leadership....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 1:08pm PST
LA South Central Farmers call for help The South Central Farmers and their supporters are putting out the call for mutual aid from environmental activists to help save their farmland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:02am PST
Save the South Central Farm - A call for Mutual Aid The South Central Farmers and their supporters are putting out the call for mutual aid from environmental activists to help save their farmland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:00am PST
Bush Considered Flying US Spy Planes With UN Colors Over Iraq In 2003 to Provoke War British international law professor Philippe Sands, author of “Lawless World,” reveals President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair secretly agreed in January 2003 to invade Iraq in mid-March 2003 regardless of the outcome of diplomatic efforts....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:36am PST
Join California Safe Schools at the Los Angeles Arboretum The Los Angeles Environmental Education Fair...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:41am PST
ACLU Brought In As Ghandian Tactics Bring Whiff of Victory in College Exclusion Case Arjuna Ahimsananda has fasted, picketed and complained to the Office of Civil Rights against Santa Barbara City College which excluded him "on trumped up charges fabricated from whole cloth" after he complained about some college policies and penned an article critical of censorhsip in higher education. Today he filed a formal compaling with the California ACLU....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:05pm PST
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