2007 Archive : Voices from the Frontlines Radio

Hosted by: Damon Azali-Rojas

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Sunyoung Yang is an organizer with the Bus Riders Union and Strategy Center Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses campaign. She speaks on the demand to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to secure funding for bus only lanes in Los Angeles as part of a broader International effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions that result in climate change.
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Eva Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney and author of The Chavez Code (2005) and Bush vs. Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela (2006). She will be speaking on the December 2nd national referendum in Venezuela where voters will be asked to decide whether to reform 72 of the 350 articles in the Constitution.
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Songs

Donny Hathaway
Marvin Gaye
Potato y Totico

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Introduction of show segments.
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Sergio Farias is an organizer with the San Juan Capistrano Coalition Against the Gang Injunction. He speaks on the recent action by the Orange County District Attorney to serve a gang injunction for the city of San Juan Capistrano, a latino community in Orange County.
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Speedy Rice is a member of the Board of Dirctors of Deth Penalty Focus and the international representative for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on U.S. and international death penalty issues. He speaks on the United Nations resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions with a view to eventually abolishing the death penalty entirely.
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Fluke Fluker and Bill Paden are founders of the Village Nation, a group formed by teachers, students, and parents at Cleveland High School to support Black student development and achivement. He speaks on the Village Nation as an alternative to traditional educational programs.
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Songs

DJ Chops
Pharrel
James Brown

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Jason Ziedenberg is the Executive Director of the Justice Policy Institute (www.justicepolicy.org) an organization whose mission is to promote effective solutions to social problems and dedicated to ending society's reliance on incarceration. Justice Policy Institute has recently released a study indicating the failure of gang suppression tactics and the need for support treatment and community-based alternatives. He speaks on current gang legislation in Congress.
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Barbara Cottman Becnel worked with former San Quentin death-row prisoner and former street gang leader Stan Tookie Williams to edit and publish his award-winning series of books for at-risk youth, as well as the book Blue Rage, Black Redemption. She organized an international campaign for clemency until he was killed by the State of California in 2005. She speaks on the re-releasing of Stan Tookie Williams' memoirs Blue Rage, Black Redemption.
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Songs

Jeru
Me'Shell NdegeOcello
The Sequence

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo

Mónica Córdova is a Youth Coordinator with SouthWest Organizing Project (www.swop.net), a state-wide multi-racial, multi-issue, community based membership organization based in New Mexico, whose mission is "to empower our communities to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice." She speaks on their current campaign to prevent the introduction of armed police officers at Alburquerque public schools.
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Bran Fenner is the Co-Director of FIERCE! (www.fiercenyc.org). FIERCE! organizes Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Queer, and Questioning youth of color in New York City to fight against the injustices of the criminal "justice" system, housing, employment, education, and healthcare systems. He speaks on the current struggle to free the New Jersey 4, who are 4 Queer Black women, convicted of battery and sentenced to up to 11 years in prison after defending themselves from and against sexist and homophobic attacks.
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, has been a long time activist involved in the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council, as well as in other movements around the world. She has written several books, including: "The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its Struggle for Sovereignty", "Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980", "Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination." She speaks on the struggle of Indigenous people in the Americas.
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Songs

Pharoah Sanders
Ulali
Los Guaraguao

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo

Bob Lane and Serena Huang are members of Critical Resistance, an anti-Prison Industrial Complex organization that believes basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what lead to safe communities. They speak on a hearing, on Monday October 1st, before a 3 judge panel that would determine whether or not California must cap its prison population due to prison overcrowding.
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Ray Boudreaux is a member of the San Francisco 8. The SF 8 are eight former Black Panthers that were arrested in January 23, 2007 on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar charges were thrown out after it was revealed that police used torture to extract confessions when some of these same men were arrested in New Orleans in 1973. He speaks on their upcoming court hearings.
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Malcolm Suber is a founding member and National Outreach Coordinator of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund in New Orleans. He is a candidate for the New Orleans City Council under the newly formed Reconstruction Party, that stands for the right to return and the just reconstruction of New Orleans. He speaks on his candidacy and on the formation of the Reconstruction Party.
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Songs

Rico Pabon
Grupo Oba Ilu
Company of Prophets

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo

Thomas P. Kim is the Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Scripps College and the Executive Director of the Korean Policy Institute. He speaks on the state of recent negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea.
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Walt Senterfitt is the national board chair of CHAMP - the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project - who organizes for prevention policies that attack the root causes driving the epidemic, including poverty, racism, homophobia and gender-based violence. He joins us to speak on CHAMP's social justice approach to ending the AIDS pandemic.
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Cindy Sheehan is an anti-war activist, mother to a soldier killed in the Iraq War, and a founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization that seeks to end the U.S. presence in Iraq and provide support for families of fallen soldiers. She speaks on her anti-war activism and on her decision to run against Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
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Songs

Roy Ayers
Nina Simone
Maldita Vecindad

Hosted by: Tammy Bang Luu

To discuss the topic of Asians in Hip-Hop, in particular the intersection of hip-hop, urban struggle, and culture as a weapon are:

Jeff Chang, a founding editor of ColorLines magazine and a Senior Editor/Director at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com, in 1993 he co-founded and ran the influential hip-hop indie label, SoleSides, now Quannum Projects. He speaks on his latest books Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and Total Chaos: The Art & Aesthetics of Hip-Hop.
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Geologic, of the Seattle based hip-hop duo Blue Scholars. Blue Scholars was founded in 2002, and its name is a play on the term "Blue collar", a popular term for workers who do manual labor, and often earn low hourly wages. Geologic is also one of the co-founders of the record label MassLine Media, whose mission statement includes the goal of using hip-hop as a means of grassroots community organizing and youth outreach.
Skim, is a Los Angeles spoken word and hip-hop artist. In her words she "is a bridge between man and woman, native and immigrant, rich and poor, love and war. Her music resonates in your spine and reverberates in your bones, striking a chord deep in the heart of anyone willing to listen."
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Songs

Native Guns
Blue Scholars
Skim

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Chris Kromm is the Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He speaks on the recent publication Blueprint for Gulf Renewal: The Katrina Crisis and a Community Agenda for Action.
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Ajamu Baraka is the Executive Director of US Human Rights Network. He speaks on the on-going sturggle for the right of return in New Orleans.
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Kali Akuno is the Executive Director of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition. He speaks on the situation on the ground in New Orleans and preparation for the International Tribunal.
Michael Leon Guerrero is the Director of Grassroots Global Justice. He speaks on the national movement solidarity delegation to the Gulf Coast.
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Songs

Warren G
Common
Mos Def

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Carmen Hernandez President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, an organization advancing the mission to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. She speaks on how former President Clinton's Effective Death Penalty Act and President Bush's Patriot Act come together to allow the fastracking of State Executions.
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Larry Aubry is a long time community activist in Los Angeles.
Erin Aubry Kaplan is a writer and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times.
They speak on the recent vote by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to close down the King-Drew Medical Center.
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Michael Novick main writer, editor, and distributor of the Anti-Racist Action. He speaks on the recent police raids and arrests of six members of the Black Riders Liberation Party. The Black Riders Liberation Party is an organization that bases itself primarily among young African-Americans in order to elevate consciousness towards an African Revolutionary consciousness.
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Hosted by: Eric Mann

Eric Mann and Glen Ford give commentary on Barry Bond's case and on racism in baseball.
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Glen Ford is a veteran journalist with a career stretching back more than three decades. Ford conceived, co-founded and hosted America's Black Forum in the early 1980s. He was lead editor, co-publisher and founder of the internet magazine Black Commentator, until leaving there to start the Black Agenda Report, which can be read at www.blackagendareport.com. He speaks on the upcoming Presidential Elections and the War on Afghanistan.
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Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. He is an associate director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, and co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement. In June 2006 Professor Ward Churchill was fired by the University of Colorado in response to his statements about September 11 (www.wardchurchill.net). His books include Marxism and Native Americans, Struggle for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From a Native Son, the COINTELPRO Papers, and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas.
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Vijay Prashad, Associate Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, and author of various books including War Against the Planet, Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses. He speaks on his most recent book Darker Nations: a People's History of the Third World (published by the New Press).

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Part II
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Songs

Souad Massi
The Coup
Femi Kuti

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Rodrigo Vasquez and Noel Orgas are organizers with the Youth Justice Coalition. They speak on a new school to be opened by the Youth Justice Coalition in Los Angeles, called FREE LA, where youth will learn organizing skills, Black and Latino movement history, and finish their high school degrees.
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Rachel Lopez and Edgar Rojas are with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice based in Riverside County, one of the areas with the worst pollution in the country. They speak on a recent study published by UCLA that strengthens the link between air pollution and cardiovascular disease.
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Camilo Mejia is an, Iraq war veteran who spent nine months in prison after refusing to return to service. He speaks on his new book, Road From Ar Ramad, he also joins us to discuss his work as an anti-war activist.
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Songs

Jimmi Hendrix
Funky Four Plus One
Mestre Amen
Osunlade

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Emma Lozano, president of Pueblos Sin Fronteras, a Chicago based Immigrant Rights organization, speaks on the fight to stop t he ICE raids and to push Democratic lawmakers to pass a progressive immigration bill.
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Nativo Lopez is National President of the Mexican American Political Association and National Director of Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana. He speaks on the fight to stop the ICE raids and to push Democratic lawmakers to pass a progressive immigration bill.
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Listener Call-ins
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Songs

Ruben Blades
Los Tigres del Norte
Café Tacuba
The Staple Singers

Hosted by: Damon Azali-Rojas and Tammy Bang Luu

Tammy Bang Luu is a co-host on Voices from the Frontlines, is an organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, a member of the U.S. Social Forum National Planning Committee, and Co-Chair of the Outreach Committee. She will be speaking on the U.S. Social Forum.
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Ruben Solis is an organizer with the Southwest Workers Union, U.S. Social Forum National Planning Committee and an organizer of the People's Freedom Caravan that traveled from Alburquerque across the Southwest and South to Atlanta for the Social Forum. He will be speaking on the U.S. Social Forum.
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Listener Call-ins
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Songs

Red Guard
Grupo Oba Ilu
Poncho Sanchez
Sugar Hill Gang

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo

Professor Tran Xuan Thu, head of the delegation and General Secretary of the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin, Nguyen Van Quy a member of the delegation, and Merle Ratner, of the US-based Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign. They speak on the lawsuit brought by Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims, against Dow Chemical Company.
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Eva Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney and author of The Chavez Code (2005) and Bush vs. Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela (2006). Since 2003, Eva has been investigating, analyzing and writing about US intervention in Venezuela using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain information on the US Government's efforts to destabilize Hugo Chavez's presidency. She speaks on the recent closure by the Venezuelan government of one of the biggest privately owned television stations in Venezuela, Radio Caracas Television.
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Hosted by: Manuel Criollo

Eric Mann is a long-term organizer with CORE, SDS, and the UAW. He is currently the Director of the Los Angeles based Labor/Community Strategy Center. Eric's latest book, Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in the Gulf Coast can be ordered at www.frontlinespress.com. He gives commentary on the May 24th, 2007 Public Hearing and Final Vote on the Fare Hike.

Part I
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Part II & Listener Call-ins
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Songs

EFW
Johnny Cash
Goapele

Hosted by: Eric Mann

Diamond Killion, AnaLillia Landa, and Vicente Rosales are a part of the Watts Student Union, a group of students and community members who in March of 200 joined together to demand immediate change to improve the education and learning environment at Jordan High School. Recently the students from the Union have been targeted by the principal for their organizing activities. The three members of the Watts Student Union speak on their current fight to win their demands.

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Eric Mann fields calls from listeners around the MTA's Fare Hike Public Hearing and Final Vote.
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Hosted by: Damon Azali-Rojas, Manuel Criollo

John Lum, Public Policy Coordinator for the Coalition for Effective Public Safety (CEPS) and Calirfornians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), speaks on the fight to overturn AB 900 which would push forward the creation of 53,000 new jail beds in California.
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Kim McGill of the Youth Justice Coalition and Guillermo Suarez of People's Commission in Defense of Human Rights, speak on the issue of police brutality in particular as regards to the police repression of protestors for Immigrant Rights on May 1st.
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Listener Call-ins
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Songs

Live
Sublime
Soul Catchers
Sweet Honey on the Rock

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Delia Herrera is an organizer with the Garment Worker Center, an organization inside of the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON). MIWON is a multi-ethnic, multi-industry network of immigrant worker-based organizations in Los Angeles that seeks to build the political consciousness and participation of immigrant workers in the fight for better living and working conditions. She speaks on on the upcoming May 1st march for immigrant rights.
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Loretta J. Ross is the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective (www.sistersong.net), a network of 80 women of color and allied organizations that work on issues of reproductive justice. In 2004, Ms. Ross was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C. She is the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, (South End Press, 2004) and author of "The Color of Choice" in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence (2006). She speaks on the recent Supreme Court ruling on mid-term abortions
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Pete White is the executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN), whose mission is to help people dealing with poverty create and discover opportunities, while serving as a vehicle to ensure they have voice, power and opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting them. LACAN organizes homeless and low-income people living in downtown Los Angeles, or "Skid Row."
He speaks on the impact of Broken Windows Policing in Los Angeles.
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Ruthie Gilmore is a writer, professor of Geography and Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, one of the most important national anti-prison organizations in the United States. She speaks on on her latest book "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California."

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Hosted by: Tammy Bang-Luu and Damon Azali-Rojas

Eric Mann is a long-term organizer with CORE, SDS, and the UAW. He is currently the Director of the Los Angeles based Labor/Community Strategy Center. Eric's latest book, Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in the Gulf Coast can be ordered at www.frontlinespress.com. He gives commentary on the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency's Proposal for a Fare Hike.
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Lawrence Reyes is part of the Puerto Rican Alliance of Los Angeles, the Jericho Amnesty Coalition to Free Political Prisoners and the Unity Mission to Free the Eight. Lawrence has been deeply involved with the struggle for the release of the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and US Out of Vieques campaign. He speaks on the case of the San Fransisco-8.
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Cindy Wiesner and Colin Rajah. Cindy Wiesner is a community and labor organizer for more than 15 years and currently works with the Miami Worker Center. Colin Rajah is the Global Justice Program Director for the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Both are members of the National Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum and they speak on the U.S. Social Forum.
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Hosted by: Tammy Bang-Luu

Barbara Lott-Holland is the chair of the Planning Committee for the Bus Riders Union and has been an active member for the past ten years. She is also on the leadership body of the Strategy Center's Community Rights campaign, and has represented the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union in local, national and international conference. She speaks on the impact that a fare hike would have on the lives of transit dependent bus riders.
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Ryan Snyder is the principal of Ryan Snyder and Associates and a former president of the Los Angeles Transportation Board of Commissioners. Ryan was an early advisor for the Strategy Center and for the strategic direction of the Bus Riders Union, leading up to the BRU's 1994 Civil Rights Title VI lawsuit of MTA. He speaks on the impacts that a fare hike would have on the public transportation ridership.
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Francisca Porchas is an organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center and the lead organizer for the Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign. She is on the recruitment and admissions committee of the Strategy Center's National School for Strategic Organizing. She speaks on the current campaign by the Bus Riders Union to stop MTA's proposal of a the fare hike.
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Songs

Rob Base
Jorge Ben
GangStarr
Benny More

Hosted by: Manuel Criollo

Eva Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney and author of The Chavez Code (2005) and Bush vs. Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela (2006). Since 2003, Eva has been investigating, analyzing and writing about US intervention in Venezuela using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain information on the US Government's efforts to destabilize Hugo Chavez's presidency. She speaks on past and present efforts of the U.S. government to undermine Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.


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Songs

Hosted by: Eric Mann

Eric Mann gives commentary on the film "The Lives of Others" and current debates of socialism.
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Vijay Prashad, Associate Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, and author of various books including War Against the Planet, Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses, and most recently, Darker Nations: the Rise and Fall of the Third World (published by The New Press) speaks on President Bush's recent visits to Latin America.
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Jay Levin, is founder and former publisher of LA Weekly, and recently founded Real Talk Media Group, with the goal of offering innovative, inclusive and authentic forms of media that target metropolitan communities. He speaks on their first media publication; Real Talk LA Magazine along with its sister website, RealTalkLA.com.
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Hosted by: Manuel Criollo

Felipe Aguirre, City Councilmember and Vice-Mayor of City of Maywood, and a member of Pro Uno, speaks on the harassment and police abuse of immigrants in the City of Maywood.
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Emma Lozano, president of Pueblos Sin Fronteras, a Chicago based Immigrant Rights organization, speaks on the recent surge of Immigrant raids by ICE.
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Michael Fox, freelance journalist, reporter, translator, and former staff in 2006 writer with Venezuelanalysis.com and correspondent with Free Speech Radio News (www.fsrn.org) speaks on President Bush's recent visits to Latin America.
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Songs:

Stevie Wonder
The Dramatics
Maldita Vecindad
Aretha Franklin

Hosted by: Eric Mann

Maisie Chin, co-founder and director of Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE), a community-based parent organization in South Los Angeles, speaks on LAUSD's new student discipline policy.
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Gregory Akili, Senior Political/Community Organizer for SEIU Local 1000, a member of Community Call to Action and Accountability (CCAA), speaks on his involvement with African Americans Against the War and its demands to end the war in Iraq now, bring all troops home, end campus recruitment, redirect war funding to a national reconstruction board to build and rebuild schools in urban centers, beginning with New Orleans.
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Larry Birns, founder and Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a nonprofit, independent research and information organization, speaks on John Negroponte's appointment as Deputy Secretary of State.
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KPFK Funddrive

Hosted by: Eric Mann and Alan Minsky

Eric Mann and Alan Minsky, host the fundrive, focusing on the Black Panther Party and its historical legacy. Also includes audio clips from Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and Jesse Jackson.

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Hosted by: Eric Mann

Eric Mann, discussses the state of the Progressive movement, the war in Iraq, and the dilemma of voting Democratic.

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Hosted by: Damon Azali and Tammy Bang Luu

Larry Aubry, long time community activist, speaks on the state of the Black Left in Los Angeles.
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Michel I. Shehadeh, Palestinian activist and writer, and Marc Van Der Hout, nationally renowned Civil Rights and immigration attorney, speak on the recent dismissal of the government's twenty year attempts to deport the LA-8.
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Songs:

KRS-1
Rico Pabon
Buena Vista Social Club

Hosted by: Eric Mann

Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black Agenda Report,(www.blackagendareport.com), discusses the politics of presidential hopeful, Barak Obama.
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Kamau Karl Franklin, activist attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, discusses the recent arrest of 8 former Black Panthers.
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Songs:

CORE Freedom Singers
SNCC Freedom Singers
Patato

Hosted by: Damon Azali, Manuel Criollo

Hany Khalil, Organizing Coordinator for United for Peace and Justice, discusses the demonstrations that will take place January 27th in Washington, D.C. and in cities throughout the country opposing Bush's plan to add 20,000 troops to Iraq and calling on Congress to end the war and withdraw U.S. troops. listen

Aqeela Sherrills, an activist in gang violence prevention that was involved in brokering the peace treaty between the Bloods and the Crips in Watts in 1992, discusses a recently released report by the LAPD stating that gang violence has risen by 14% this year and actions by City Officials pledging to fight gang presence through increased policing, gang injunctions, and prohibiting early release of incarcerated gang members. listen

Songs:

Stevie Wonder
Maldita Vecindad
Mos Def