August 9, 2006 Nagasaki Day; Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Muadi Mukenge, the Program Officer for Africa at the Global Fund for Women in San Francisco; Michel LAMBERT; David Bacon on Labor, Hotel Workers Negotiating: Mike Casey, President of UNITE HERE Local 2, Linda Knighten, cook at the Omni Hotel; Cease Fire: … Continued
Hezballah Becomes a Role Model: Chris Toensing, Middle East Research and Information Project, Rickie Solinger, Independent Historian; "Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America"; Immigrant Incarceration: Bob Libal, co-coordinator of Grassroots Leadership’s Not With Our Money! campaign in Austin, Texas; "The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter" by … Continued
Domestic Spying on Political Activists: Mark Schlosberg, ACLU-Northern California Police Practices Policy Director, "The State of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of Political Activity in Northern and Central California", David Solnit, "An Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World"; Oak to Ninth Avenue Waterfront Development; Naomi Schiff, Oakland Heritage … Continued
The UN Response to Middle East Violence, Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies; "Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the United Nations Defy US Power", David Bacon on Labor, Randy Reyes, a worker at the Blue Diamond almond plant; Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance: Bill Chandler, Victoria Cintra;Hiroshima Nagasaki Anniversary Protests, Antonia Juhasz – "Bush Agenda: … Continued
No Cease Fire in Lebanon or Gaza – Naseer Aruri, Simona Sharoni; Where Do We Go from Here? – Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, Lisa Hajjar; The Local Response – Michael Nagler, Rayan El-Amine; Sandra Gilbert author of "Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve"
Michael Franti, "I Know I’m Not Alone: A Musician’s Journey Through War in the Middle East", "Yell Fire"; "Why We Fight" a film by Eugene Jarecki; Norman Solomon’s "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death"
Eduardo Galeano
"Sir! No Sir!: The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam," a film about the GI Movement Against the War in Vietnam, intro by Howard Zinn & "Trudell" a film by Heather Rae.
