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- As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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- Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate
- Iraq Vote in Limbo with Veto of Election Law
- As Wall Street Posts Record Profits and US Hunger Rate Grows, Robert Scheer Asks: “Where Is the Community Organizer We Elected?”
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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- EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Responds to Court Ruling Upholding Conviction and Ordering Her to Prison
- Amidst California Fiscal Crisis and Political Gridlock, Scholar and Activist George Lakoff Proposes Ballot Measure to End 2/3 Rule in State Legislature
- “The Card Game”–New Doc Investigates History of Credit Card Industry and Proposals for Reform
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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- Why Are We Destroying Public Education? University of California Students and Staff Prepare for System-Wide Strike to Protest Cuts
- Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative
- Raj Patel on America’s Growing Hunger Crisis and the UN Summit to Fight Hunger in Rome
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Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
“Over 1 billion people are chronically hungry,” says the U.N., yet it would take only $44 billion per year to end hunger globally.
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Lou Dobbs Resigns From CNN
The controversial TV anchor has resigned from CNN amid a campaign to force him off the air due to his reporting on Latinos and immigrants. Past Democracy Now! Coverage of Lou Dobbs:
- Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez’s 2007 interview with Lou Dobbs
- Amy Goodman’s column ‘The Dubious Mr. Dobbs’
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The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.” The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during the Great Depression by Oscar-winning lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg.
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The Tortured Logic Continues
“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself.
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Trick or Treat for Climate Change
Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are stepping up the pressure by staging elaborate stunts.
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Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country
Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military.
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Christian Parenti responds to Kevin Bales
Journalist Christian Parenti responds to our interview with Kevin Bales, founder of Free The Slaves
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June 2001 Archive
Friday, June 29, 2001
- Headlines for June 29, 2001
- Serbia Extradites Milosevic to Hague for Crimes Against Humanity
- Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and Michael Franti Talk and Sing About Life, Love, Their Music and Their Activism
Thursday, June 28, 2001
- Headlines for June 28, 2001
- U.N Conference On AIDS Ends As People Around the World Call for More Action: From Southafrica to New York, Brazil to Burma
- As the Senate Continues Debate On a Patients Bill of Rights, We’ll Talk to a Pediatricdentist Who Says He Was Dropped By His HMO for Providing Too Much Care for the Poor
Wednesday, June 27, 2001
- Headlines for June 27, 2001
- Teamsters Meet to Nominate Presidential Candidates for One of the Nation’s Largest Unionsamidst Fierce Campaigning By Corruption-Dogged James Hoffa and Insurgent Candidate Tom Leedham
- “Down On the Farm: Nafta’s Seven-Years War On Farmers and Ranchers in the U.S., Canada Andmexico”: A Debate
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
- Headlines for June 26, 2001
- Censorship at the National Press Club; Or, Trying to Question Henry Kissinger
- Anti-Sanctions Activists Visit Site of Recent Bombing in Iraq Where 23 People Were Killed
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Meets with President Bush As Survivors of the Sabra Andshatila Massacre in Lebanon Charge That Sharon Should Be Indicted for Crimes Against Humanity
Monday, June 25, 2001
- Headlines for June 25, 2001
- Peruvian Spy Master and Ex-CIA Asset Vladimiro Montesinos Is Captured in Venezuala; Returnshome to Face Charges 0f Corruption and Human Rights Abuses
- Bush Administration Places Two Irish Groups On State Department Terrorist List; the Groupsare Legal in England and Ireland; the FBI Informer Whom Group Members Say Was a Provocateur Is Now Inwitness P
- Iraqi News Reports British and American Aircraft Bomb Soccer Field–Killing 23 People–Asu.N. Debates New Sanctions Proposal: A Conversation with the Former Head of the U.N. Oil for Foodprogram in I
Friday, June 22, 2001
- Headlines for June 22, 2001
- An Israeli Draft Resister Goes to Prison Rather Than Serve in An Army of Occupation
- A Leading Palestinian Human Rights Activist Is Detained and Tortured in An Israeli Prison
- “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People.” a Conversation with Author Jack Shaheen
Thursday, June 21, 2001
- Headlines for June 21, 2001
- Political Prisoner Lori Berenson Is Sentenced to 20 Years in a Peruvian Prison; An Interviewwith Her Father Mark Berenson in Lima, Peru
- After White Police Officers Shoot and Kill An African-American Man in Seattle, Communityactivists Adopt a New Tactic: Pressuring Powerful Corporations Like Starbucks to Take a Stand Againstpolice Brut
- As the Senate Debates a Patient’s Rights Bill, a Debate Between a Doctor Who Advocatesuniversal Health Care, and a Spokesperson for the Largest HMO Lobbying Association
Wednesday, June 20, 2001
- Headlines for June 20, 2001
- Key Players in Iran Contra Scandal Re-Join Bush Administration. Is History Repeating Itself? A Discussion About the Men President Bush Wants to Run US Policy Toward Latin America
- As U.N. Celebrates World Refugee Day, Indonesia Continues to Hold Tens of Thousands of Easttimorese As Virtual Hostages, Two Years After They Were Driven From Their Homes
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
- Headlines for June 19, 2001
- Corporate and Police Surveillance: Orwellian Fiction Or 21st Century Reality? Police Videocameras Monitor Public Streets
- Employers Use Video Surveillance to Intimidate Unionizing Workers; Workers Fight Back Withcreative Actions and Labor Complaints
- A History of Corporate-State Collaboration: From Pinkerton’s to the Internet
Monday, June 18, 2001
- Headlines for June 18, 2001
- As President Bush Urges NATO Expansion to Russia’s Borders, Multinational Oil Corporationsscramble for Oil in the Caspian Sea: An Interview with Michael Klare On “Resource Wars”
- Federal Death Row Prisoner Juan Raul Garza in His Own Words, a Day Before His Scheduledexecution; Oklahoma Governor Grants Stay of Execution to Another Mexican National After a Personalappeal From Mex
Friday, June 15, 2001
- Headlines for June 15, 2001
- 10,000 Protesters Greet President Bush in Goteburg, Sweden; Over 200 Are Arrested Afterpolice Blockade School Were Protesters Are Staying
- Arizona Sheriff Broadcasts Jail Scenes Over the Internet, Like Police Officers Friskingfemale Prisoners in Front of Male Holding Cells; Porn Sites Are Having a Field Day
- Puerto Rican Governor Says the Bombing of Vieques Cannot Go On for Another 2 Years, Afterpresident Bush Says the Navy Will Pull Out in 2003
Thursday, June 14, 2001
- Headlines for June 14, 2001
- As President Bush Continues His Tour, Thousands Protest U.S. Capital Punishment in Europe,and a Senate Panel Investigates Whether the Death Penalty Is Racist, a Debate Between Stephen Brightof the Sou
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
- Headlines for June 13, 2001
- Greenpeace Blockades Belgian Military Airport Where President Bush Arrives; Protesters Greetbush at NATO Headquarters in Brussels
- Congress Honors Shirley Chisholm, the First African American Woman Representative
- It’s the 30th Anniversary of the Publication of the Pentagon Papers; a Conversation Withdaniel Ellsberg, the Former Pentagon Official Who Gave Them to the Press
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
- Headlines for June 12, 2001
- Bush Begins European Tour in Madrid and Is Greeted By Thousands of Protesters Chanting"Assassin" and “Compassionate Killer;” a Discussion with the Coordinator of the United Left Party Inspain
- Gay Rights Activist Mel White, Former Speech Writer for Pat Robertson and Billy Graham, Wages Holy Disobedience at the Southern Baptist Convention
Monday, June 11, 2001
- Headlines for June 11, 2001
- U.S. Government Executes Timothy Mcveigh As Death Penalty Opponents in U.S. and Around Worldprotest
- President Bush to Meet with European Leaders Opposed to the Administration’s Position On Thedeath Penalty
- Witness to An Execution
Friday, June 08, 2001
- Headlines for June 08, 2001
- Editor of the Leading Nepalese Paper and Two Others Are Arrested As the Government Says It’s Not Cracking Down On Freedom of the Press After Massacre of Royal Family
- D.C. Residents Hold Funeral Procession for Those Who Have Died From the Closing of the City’s Only Public Hospital
- Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians V. the Supreme Court
Thursday, June 07, 2001
- Headlines for June 07, 2001
- As AIDS in the U.S. Turns 20, a Look at Two Decades of Radical AIDS Activism, Including:Storming the CBS Evening News and the Macneil-Lehrer News Hour, Halting Trading at the New York Stockexchange, a
- AIDS Activism at 20, Cont’d: A Roundtable Discussion
- AIDS Activists Debate the Deputy Director of Hiv Research at the Centers for Disease Control
Wednesday, June 06, 2001
- Headlines for June 06, 2001
- City Attorney James Hahn Is Elected Mayor of Los Angeles After a Campaign Marked By Aracially Charged Political Ad
- High School Student Forced to Apologize to His School After Protesting a Mandatory Studentassembly for Mcdonald’s
- A Lawyer Sues Mcdonald’s On Behalf of Millions of Vegetarians and Hindus for Lying About Itsuse of Beef Fat in Its French Fries
- Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark Speaks About Three of His Cases: Court Ruling Thatfbi Sharpshooter Can Be Tried for Manslaughter in Ruby Ridge, the Death Penalty Phase in the Embassybombing Ca
Tuesday, June 05, 2001
- Headlines for June 05, 2001
- Picture a Crack Pipe Against a Grainy Image of a Latino Candidate for Mayor, Playing the Race Card in the Race for Mayor of Los Angeles: Jim Hahn Vs. Antonio Villaraigosa
- Twenty Years Ago Today, the Center for Disease Control Reported the First Cases of Aidsreported in This Country; Now, It Is the Leading Cause of Death Among Young African-Americans
Monday, June 04, 2001
- Headlines for June 04, 2001
- Nepal’s Royal Family Gunned Down Under Mysterious Circumstances; Slain King’s Brother Takespower As Thousands Nepali’s March in Streets Demanding An Explanation
- An Interview with Novelist, Playwright and Activist Ariel Dorfman, As He Discusses His Newbook–Blake’s Therapy–and Globalization, Voyeurism and Responsibility
Friday, June 01, 2001
- Headlines for June 01, 2001
- Judge Tells Former Air Force Captain He Must Pay for Admitting He Is Gay
- Following Act of “Ecclesiastical Disobedience,” Lutheran Bishop Paul Egertson Resigns
- An Interview with Novelist, Playwright and Activist Ariel Dorfman
