Shows featuring Faleh Abood Umara

Founder of Iraq Oil Workers Union Rejects U.S.-Backed Oil Law as "Robbery"
As the Iraqi Cabinet approves part of a controversial oil law, we speak with Faleh Abood Umara, the general secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions and a founding member of the oil workers union in Iraq. He calls on Iraqi lawmakers to reject the legislation. We also speak with Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and the first woman to head a national...
July 06, 2007 | Story
Discussion about the Aryan Brotherhood in prisons and the death penalty.
Discussion about the Aryan Brotherhood and the death penalty in regards to the riot in April 1993 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility when nine prisoners and one guard were killed. Five individuals have been sentenced to death for the killings that occurred during the riots, while some claim that those convicted, both members of the Aryan Brotherhood and members of the Nation of Islam...
May 16, 1997 | Story

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Martin Luther King Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement

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Imagine Something Different

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

“Imagine if we did something different.” Those were just six words out of close to 7,000 that President Barack Obama spoke during his State of the Union address. He was addressing both houses of Congress, which are controlled by his bitter foes. Most importantly, though, he was addressing the country. From whose lives has the shadow of crisis passed? And for whom is this Union strong?

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