2004 Archive : Voices from the Frontlines Radio

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo, Eric Mann

Eric Mann comments on Democratic Party politics, specifically about the fight inside the party between the center right, represented by Howard Dean, and the far right, represented by the rest of the party. listen

Peter Kornbluh, the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability which has recently been published in paperback, talks about the recent decision by the Chilean Courts to indict General Augusto Pinochet for crimes committed during the international series of state sponsored terrorist acts against the left and other forces, sponsored by several South American Dictatorships in the 1970's through the so-called "Operation Condor." listen

Dorothy Roberts, professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty talks about Senate Republican leaders appointing two of Congress's most outspoken antiabortion members to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is bracing for potentially bruising hearings on nominations to the Supreme Court, as the next four years might see the retirement of at least 2-3 members of the Supreme Court. This could tilt the future of Roe v. Wade and women's reproduction rights into non-existence. listen

Songs:
Pharoah Sanders, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
Victor Jara, Preguntas Por Puerto Montt
Gil Scott-Heron, Lady Day and John Coltrane
Erlon Chavez, Cosa Nostra

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo, Eric Mann

Eric Mann critiques several of the season's movies including Closer, National Treasure, The Aviator, Neverland, Sideways and Ray. listen

Ben Plenton, coordinator of the Human Rights Project with the Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad en San Salvador, El Salvador talks about the recent vote in the Salvadorian National Assembly to ratify CAFTA and the struggles by the popular movement and the FMLN to resist it. listen

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, Vice President of Research and Programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation talks about her recent commentary on the impact of President Bush's plans to reform social security and its particular adverse impact on the Black community. listen

Nick Unger, representative of the New York Transit Workers Union , Local 100 talks about the recent decision by the New York MTA to raise the fares again, reduce service, and atomizing operation of toll booths and subway trains - its impact on transit riders and transit workers. listen

Songs:
Charles Mingus, IIBS
Ruben Blades, Si Prohibe Prohiber
Arrested Development, People Everyday
Chocolate Milk, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Mandrill, Children of the Sun

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Manuel Criollo

Jennifer Gonnerman who is a staff writer at the Village Voice and author of "Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett" which is available in paper back in bookstores this week. We will be talking to her about the recent changes in the Rockefeller drug laws in New York and her new book. listen

Roberto Elissalde, a journalist writing for Brecha, talks live from Montevideo, Uruguay, about the recent electoral victory of the Frente Amplio, the opportunities and the challenges. listen

Songs:
Blues Minor, John Coltrane
Desalambrar, Daniel Viglietti
Somos El Futuro, Daniel Viglietti

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Tammy Bang Luu

Bob Wing, national co-chair of United for Peace and Justice and Founding Editor of War Times/Tiempo de Guerras newspaper and Colorlines magazine, talks about race and the 2004 presidential elections and his recent article "The White Elephant in the Room: Race and Election 2004." listen

Melissa Burch from Critical Resistance and the No New Jails Coalition talks about Measure A, the half billion-dollar sales tax for more cops and jails. She also talks about other attempts by the opposition to get more money out of taxes and into police coffers. listen

Mateo Jarrin, Media Analyst with the Venezuela Information Office talks about declassified CIA documents showing the United States had detailed information regarding the April 2002 Coup in Venezuela. listen

Songs:
Coffin for the Head of State, Fela Kuti
Travel Ban, Fela Kuti
Hip-hop for Respect, Hip Hop for Respect Compilation
Murderer, Hip Hop for Respect Compilation

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Manuel Criollo

Damon Azali talks about some lessons from his trip to Miami-Dade County, Florida last week and comments on California as a "safe state" in this election. listen

Mark-Anthony Johnson and Daniel Kim of the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union were part of a 4-member delegation to Miami-Dade County, Florida, to assure the democratic rights of Blacks, Haitians and Latinos by doing voter protection work in collaboration with the Miami Workers Center. listen

Keith Jennings from Count Every Vote! will continue his discussion from last week about how fair and open the elections were last Tuesday. listen

Songs:
Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder
Umi Says, Mos Def
Comin' From Where I'm From, Anthony Hamilton
Umbabarauma, Jorge Ben

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo, Eric Mann

Eric Mann talks about 60 Minutes' inaccurate commentary on Emmett Till, and the case of the Black teenage boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for looking at a white woman. listen

Jose Lariz Godan of the Vay, Yay, Yo - Haitian Human Rights Organization in Miami, Florida talks about the work his organization is doing in Miami to assure the vote for Haitians and to defeat George W. Bush. listen

Damon Azali and Norma Henry, who are part a 4-member delegation from the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union talk live from Miami about their work to assure the democratic rights of Blacks, Haitians and Latinos by doing voter protection work in collaboration with the Miami Workers Center. listen

Keith Jennings from Count Every Vote! talks about his organization's work in the Black Belt South to assure Black voter's democratic rights to be respected and free of intimidation. listen

Songs:
Revolution, Los Lobos
Recognition, The Fugees
Hot Night, Me'shell Ndegocello
Casualties of War, Eric B and Rakim

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Eric Mann

Eric Mann gives a commentary on the elections, and how the Democratic Party's run to the right is alienating constituencies such as women, Blacks and gays. listen

John McCullough, executive director of the Fund for Reconstruction and Reconciliation, an organization that is currently working with the Vietnamese people in suing Dow Chemical for Agent Orange, talks about how they are trying to move the candidates and representatives during elections around the blockade against Cuba. listen

Sushma Sheth, organizer with the Miami Workers Center talks about the campaign to get out the vote, and their battle to get independent observers in polling places in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where there was election fraud in the last election. listen

Triana Silton, Los Angeles Coordinator for America Votes talks about their project to get Californians from Los Angeles to get out the vote in Nevada. listen

In recognition of Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, leading Indigenous analyst, talks about the origin of the United States as a white settler nation, the conquest and genocide laid upon Indigenous people and how this laid the foundation of modern day US Imperialism. listen

Melodie Kelis and Jennifer Scofield, producers and filmmakers of "Disinformation Nation," talk about their film and upcoming fundraiser at the Temple Bar, hosted by Fidel Rodriguez on October 24th. listen

Eric Lotke from the Justice Policy Institute talks about their latest report titled, "Swing States:
Crime, Prisons, and the Future of the Nation" about the growing disenfranchisement of Black and Latino voters in the so-called "swing states." listen

Jose Bravo of the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ) gives his impressions on this weekend's mobilization at the San Diego/Tijuana border and the week of border actions and mobilizations organized by SNEEJ. listen

Doug Heller from ElectionWatchdog.org and the NO on Proposition 64 campaign talks about the multi-million dollar proposition supported by some of the major transnational corporations to limit the right of private parties to bring lawsuits against corporations. listen

Songs:
Revolution, Los Lobos
Sernata Diurna, Silvio Rodriguez
Recognition, The Fugees
Casualties of War, Eric B and Rakim

Immanuel Wallerstein, Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for Study of Economies, Historical Systems & Civilization at Binghamton University and currently a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars on world systems theory and political economy. His commentaries are translated into 24 different languages and can be found on http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm. He talks about the state of US imperialism & the upcoming US presidential elections. listen

Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) and co-author of several books on corporate media, including Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News, talks about his role in organizing "Nader 2000 Leaders United to Defeat Bush" and his thoughts on the role of the progressive movement in the elections. listen

Songs:
Infinite War, Critical Mass
Propaganda, Dead Prez
Fables of Falbus, Mingus
Liberation Song, Gil Scott Heron

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu, Damon Azali

Yardenna Aaron is a Research Associate with AGENDA (Action for Grassroots Empowerment & Neighborhood Development Alternatives), an organization focusing on jobs, health and economic equity in South LA. Larry Aubrey, a long time community activist in Los Angeles, has and continues to work in struggles from civil rights to reparations. He is also a columnist for the LA Sentinel and has been writing about the dilemmas at King Drew Hospital. They talk about the state of the healthcare crisis in Los Angeles, and the campaign to keep King Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles open. listen

Geri Silva in the Executive Director and one of the founding members of Families Against CA's
Three Strikes talks about working in a coalition to help pass Prop 66 which aims to change some of the most egregious parts of prop 184, the dreaded "3 strikes and your are out prop" that was passed by CA voters in 1994. listen

Craig Gilmore is an organizer with CA Prison Moratorium Project and works with the Real Cost of Prisons Project which is looking at the economics that drive the prison industrial complex. He talks about the campaign to defeat Measure A, which is a 1/2 sales tax for all of LA county whose revenues will go to LA County Sheriff's Dept, LAPD Prosecutors and "anti-terror" measures. listen

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Eric Mann

Former California State Senator Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party talks about the Democrats' plan in the aftermath of the Arnold Schwarzenegger's recall victory, drivers licenses for Immigrants as well as the presidential campaign of John Kerry. listen

Ted Glick, the National coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN) talks about the upcoming national racial justice week and the Green Party's intervention in the 2004 election. listen

Ed Avol, Professor at USC's Keck School of Medicine, Division of Environmental Health talks about a report he co-authored that details the effects of air pollution on the lung development and health of children from ages 10-18. listen

Songs:
Little Brother, Black Star
Times are a changing, Bob Dylan
Karen Casey
Security of the 1st World, Public Enemy

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu, Damon Azali

Benjamin Ramos talks about the state of Puerto Rican political prisoners, specifically looking at case of Antonio Camacho Negron who is currently being threatened with re-incarceration after his release last Tuesday, having spent 15 years in prison. listen

Annette Morfin and Ron Dorn talk about the efforts on the part of parents, teachers and students at 99th Street Elementary School to defend the rights to organize at the school and address the intimidation tactics on the part of the school district. listen

Jim Lafferty from the National Lawyers' Guild talks about state/police repression on organizers and activists as we approach the Republican National Convention and what folks should expect in New York. listen

Songs:
Attack Boricua Attack, Welfare Poets
Ghetto people's song
Mentiroso, Omaya
Embrace the Chaos, Ozomatli

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu, Manuel Criollo

Victoria Rodriguez, Organizer with the Southwest Organizing Project in Alburquerque, New Mexico, talks about their massive voter registration project launched in preparation for the upcoming US presidential elections. listen

Jo Ellen Chernow from the Venezuelan Information Office in Washington D.C. speaks live from Caracas, Venzeuela, about the overwhelming victory for President Hugo Chavez, beating the referendum vote against his adminstration. listen

Esther Portillo, member of the FMLN-Los Angeles Committee, talks about the upcoming protest against Salvadoreño president Tony Saca who will be in Los Angeles tomorrow. listen

Songs:
Power to the People, Public Enemy
Gaita Margariteña, Los Guaraguao
A Deslambrar, Daniel Vigiletti
Peace Everybody, Azteca

Deborah James from the Venezuelan Information Office in Washington D.C, speaks live from Caracas, Venezuela, about the Venezuelan Bolivarian process and the signifcance of the upcoming presidential referendum. listen

William Blum, author of Rogue State talks about the National Endowment for Democracy and the role of the U.S. in Venezuela. listen

Joel Tena of the Venezuelan Solidarity Group, talks about the ongoing solidarity work in the U.S. for the Bolivarian Revolution. listen

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Eric Mann

Eric Mann shares some of his thoughts on the happenings during the Boston Social Forum and the Democratic National Convention. listen

Manning Marable, Professor of History and Political Science, Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and co-founder of the Black Radical Congress, delivered a speech at the Boston Social Forum. listen

Wahleah Johns, the Director of the Black Mesa Water coalition that is trying to stop the use of their water in coal mining operations and how they are trying to build a more sustainable future for the Black Mesa Dine reservation in NE Arizona. listen

Songs by:
Isley Brothers
Freestyle Fellowship
Deee-lite
Dj Chops

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu

Ted Lewis, Director of Fair Election Initiative from Global Exchange talks about international election observation for the presidential election in November. listen

Arnoldo Garcia, Senior Program Associate with the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR) talks about Bush and Kerry on immigration. listen

Victoria Ballesteros is the field organizer with the Children's Defense Fund and is part of the statewide emergency coalition to address the recent immigrant attacks.nformation on upcoming Town Hall meeting to address the recent waves of immigrant sweeps and attacks. listen

Songs:
Wake Up, Herold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Dos Cosas Ciertas, Ozomatli
Smoke, Lila Downs

Baye Adofo-Wilson, co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention and Project Director for the Museum of African American Music, talks about the how the convention is organized to be a national gathering of the hip-hop generation to vote on, adopt and endorse a political agenda for the hip-hop generation and to develop leadership within that generation. listen

Wol-san Liem is an organizer with Nodutdol for Korean Community Development in NYC and is also the co-coordinator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK Exposure and Education Program 2004. She talks about the reactionary bill now pending in Congress benignly entitled "North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004" and also about an upcoming delegation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which envisions a different road to peace and reunification. listen

Sophia Quinones from Our Lady of Guadalupe Collaborative talks about the collaborative's work to influence the upcoming LAUSD decision on the placement of a new high school East Los Angeles and how to address the lack of educational facilities. listen

Songs:
Love of My Life, Roots
Korean Unification Song
Donde se Fueron, Ozomatli
Love of my Life, Erika Badu

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Tammy Bang Luu

Bob Wing, Managing Editor of War times/Tiempo de Guerras newspaper and co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, talks about his forthcoming article in War Times that talks about racism and the war in Iraq. listen

Linda Burnham, Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland, CA talks about her article, also coming out in War Times that speaks on war and gender. listen

Kirti Baranwal, teacher at Gompers Middle School, and Juan Preciado, student at Dorsey High School, both from the Coalition for Educational Justice, talk about their action tomorrow at the LA School Board against the no child left behind act and military recruitment on school campuses. listen

Songs:
Not Your Flag, Red Guard
Fragile, Cassandra Wilson
Hammer, Bob Marley
M'toto, Zap Mama

Howard Zinn, radical historian and author or the People's History of the United States talks about the US occupation of Iraq, examining US imperialist overextention and what we need to do now to get the troops out, the November presidential elections and what demands the movement could make. listen

William Sales Jr, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Seton Hall University, author of From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity, and a co-convener of the first international conference on Malcolm X held in New York City in 1990. Dr. Sales talks about Malcolm X and the Black liberation movement past and present, the legacy of Malcolm X as revolutionary Black nationalist, Pan African internationalist, proletarian leader, and the relevance of his ideological and political points on the situation of black people today. listen (preceded by a clip of a speech by Malcolm X)

Songs by:
Bob Dylan
Dead Prez

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu, Manuel Criollo

Dagoberto Rodriguez, the Ambassador of the Cuban Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C. talks about the Bush Administration's Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba and their new 500 page report and its implications for the Cuban people. listen

Walter Lippman, webmaster for CubaNews and long-time Cuban solidarity activist talks about Cuba solidarity movement and what we can do to support Cuban self-determination. listen

May 17th 2004 marks the 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. the Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that de jure aimed at ending segregation in public schools, saying that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Lianey Lopez and Erica Thomas, members of Californians for Justice and students at Poly Technic High School in Long Beach talk about their action next Monday, to put the State on Trial for still separate and unequal schools. listen

Songs:
Para Nosotros Siempre es 26, Carlos Puebla
Te Doy una Canción, Silvio Rodriguez
Havana Side Underground, Alto y Bajo

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Tammy Bang Luu

Will Cordery, Stephanie Guilloud from Project South talk about movement building in the South. listen

Dr. Laurence McKeown is an Irish Republican ex-prisoner who served 16 years in the H-Block prison and was on hunger strike for 70 days. On the line from Belfast, North Ireland, he talks about the Irish National Liberation struggle, and in particular the IRA hunger strike in the 1980s. listen

Songs by:
Harold Melvin and the Blue Tones
Shanakey

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Eric Mann

Gihan Perrera and Max Rameau from the Miami Workers Center talk about the state of the Black movement focusing on black voting rights in the South, and what the Left is doing to protect those rights. listen

Bill Fletcher, Executive Director of the Trans Africa Forum talks about Black rights all over the world, from South Florida to South Africa, from Harlem to Haiti. listen

Songs by:
Mos Def
Collective Effort
Public Enemy

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu, Manuel Criollo

Dr. Namhee Lee, Professor of Korean Modern History at UCLA discusses the recent elections in South Korea, the rise of the Uri Party its implications on the impeachment of President Moo-Hyun Roo and Korean sovereignty. listen

Dr. Seung Hye Suh, co-founder of Nodutol for Korean Development in NYC, and Assistant Professor at Scripps College, talks about Cheney's recent trip to Asia and US aggression toward North Korea. listen

Phyllis Kim, President of One Korea LA Forum talks about her work for unification on the peninsula here in Los Angeles. listen

Songs:
Korean song against US militarism
I was Born with Two Tongues, Han
Traditional Korean song
Korean Reunification Song

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu and Manuel Criollo

Carlos Castaneda, an elected member of the National Assembly in El Salvador, also a member of the FMLN, he speaks live from El Salvador about the death of Natividad Mendez, Salvadorian soldier in Iraq, and the pressure inside El Salvador to remove the troops from Iraq. listen

Rafael Anglada, part of the legal defense team for the Cuban Five, he talks live from Puerto Rico to give us an update on the case. listen

Rosario Muñoz is a domestic violence survivor and was imprisoned for second degree murder that did not account for years of domestic violence. Since her release from prison, she has spent the last few months in the hands of the INS at the detention center in San Pedro, pending deportation. Verónica Obregón, a leader in the battered women's movement, coordinator of the Free Rosario Muñoz Committee, and niece of Rosario Muñoz gives an update on the continuing struggle to keep Rosario in the US. listen

Songs:
Otra Vez, Los Guarguaos
Son de Cuba a Puerto Rico, Pablo Milanés
Round and Round, Hi-Tek
Masters of War, Samantha Liapes

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu, Eric Mann

Panama Alba gives a tribute to Richie Perez, revolutionary Puerto Rican organizer, leader in the Young Lords Party, Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization member and a co-founder of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights/Justice Committee. Richie passed away March 27th at 59. Panama Alba, long-time comrade, friend and fellow member of the Young Lords Party reflects on the legacy of Richie Perez as well as his own thoughts on movement strategies. listen

Yuri Kochiyama, long-time movement activist, prison abolitionist, revolutionary Asian sister will talk about her experience in the Black Liberation Movement and discuss her new memoir, Passing It On. listen

Dr. Grace Lee Boggs, an activist, writer and speaker whose 60 years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of the last century, talks about radical social movements and future of the Left. listen

Songs:
Puerto Rico, Eddie Palmieri
Attack Boricua Attack, Welfare Poets
Don Padro, Planeros de la Viento-uno Track 5 (start at 3:00)

3/29/04

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo, Eric Mann, Cynthia Rojas

James Petras has worked with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for the last eleven years in addition to his work with the unemployed workers' movement in Argentina, talks about the recent elections in El Salvador, as well as talks about electoral politics and revolutionary movements in Latin America. listen

Cynthia Rojas and Manuel Criollo share their impressions of their trip to El Salvador to observe the recent presidential elections. James Petras joins in the discussion. listen

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu, Eric Mann

Manuel Criollo, Lead Organizer with the Bus Riders Union and Cynthia Rojas, Lead Organizer with the Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses campaign at the Labor Community Strategy Center speak live from El Salvador to give a first hand report about the presidential elections there. listen

Esther Portillo, community organizer in San Bernadino and activist with the FMLN in Los Angeles talks about the recent elections in El Salvador. listen

Songs by:
Adrian Goizueta
Gil Scott Heron
Omaya

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Tammy Bang Luu

For the International Women's Day edition of Voices From the Frontlines, Lian Hurst Mann, lecturer and coordinator for the National School for Strategic Organizing with the Labor Community Strategy Center talks aobut her experience as part of the first wave of women to enter heavy industries as a result of Affirmative Action in the 1970's, and as a conscious left organizer on the shop floor. listen

Ruthie Gillmore, prison abolitionist and Professor of Geography, American Studies, and Ethnicity at USC, breaks down the prison industrial complex with particular emphasis on women, one of the fastest growing prison populations in California. listen

Songs:
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
Women are rising, Sweet Honey and the Rock
Black Woman, Voices

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Eric Mann

Karen Bass, former Executive Director of Community Coalition in South LA talks about her run for the seat in the 47th Assembly District in the California State Legislature. listen

Ty Geltmaker, former Act Up member talks about same sex marriage in the national political scene. listen

Luiz Sanchez, Executive Director of Inner City Struggle talks about their battle for a new high school in East LA. listen

Songs by:
Cassandra Wilson
Dead Prez
Tambu
Kenny Gerrick

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Eric Mann

From San Francisco, Stefanie Faucher of Death Penalty Focus talks about the case of Kevin Cooper, who is on San Quentin's Death Row. Stephanie gives an up-to-the-minute update on a temporary stay he just received for an execution that was scheduled for tomorrow at 12am. listen

Cynthia Rojas, organizer with the Bus Riders Union talks about the MTA's recent appeal of a court order that was part of the continuing civil rights consent decree aimed at improving bus service for Black, Latino, API and working class white bus riders of LA, as well as their attempt to support a counter resolution tomorrow at the LA City Council. listen

Songs:
Equal Rights, Peter Tosh
Si Se Puede, Francisco Herrera

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Eric Mann

Ayuko Babu, Executive Director of the Pan African Film Festival discusses the upcoming festival and films. listen

Laura Lipson, director of Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders, a film in the Pan African Film Festival, discusses her film that follows the women that became leaders of the civil rights movement. listen

Jennifer Abad discusses her film, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vison of Audre Lorde, about the late Black lesbian feminist socialist poet, and about how her life and work contributed to the Black rights and Black lesbian and gay liberation movements. listen

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Tammy Bang Luu

Ron Daniels, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights talks about the Black vote in relation to the 2004 presidential election, and in particular the South Carolina primaries. listen

Graham Boyd, Director of the ACLU Drug Policy Litigation Project, talks about the drug war as the new Jim Crow and calls for a new civil rights movement to address the growin US apartheid. listen

Ron Washington with Black Telephone Workers for Justice talk saobut their 4-year struggle for Verizon to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a paid holiday. listen

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo, Eric Mann

Sue Branford, BBC Brazil Correspondent and coauthor of Lula and the Brazilian Workers Party gives her assessment of Lula da Silva's first year in power and talks about her new book. listen

Ruben Solis, organizer with the Southwest Workers Union talks about the recently proposed Guestworker Program and the Bush Administration's immigrant reform legislation, and the impacts on the immigrant rights movement and the 2004 Presidential election. listen

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo, Eric Mann

Marine Lance Corporal Jesus Suarez del Solar lost his life on March 27, 2003, during the invasion of Iraq. His father, Fernando Suarez del Solar talks about his recent trip to Iraq and his demand for the immediate pull out of the U.S. from Iraq. listen

Kiilu Nyasha, prison abolition activist talks about the January parole hearing for Hugo Pinel, one of the San Quentin 6, and one of the longest held political prisoners in the U.S, who has spent over 39 years of his life in prison. listen

Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, director of the NYC Unlock The Block: Release the Vote Campaign, a coalition of organizations which is seeking to extend the right to vote to individuals with felony convictions talks about their fight against felony disenfranchisement and Drop the Rock campaign to repeal the Rockefeller drug laws. listen