7:00Same Sex Marriage – Canada, Spain, and the U.S. Kate Kendall, executive director, National Center for Lesbian Rights; Michelangelo Signorile, journalist, author, talk show host 7:30 The "Asian Mystique" Sheridan Prasso, author of The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient 7:57 Sandra Day O’Connor retires from the U. … Continued
7:00 am7:00 Elections in the Congo postponed. Jacques Depelchin, co-founder of the Ota Benga Alliance for Peace in the Congo; Professor Ernest Wamba Diawamba, senator in the transitional senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 7:30 Looming humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. Dr. John Makumbe, Political Science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe; Andrew Meldrum, … Continued
7:00 Bush Speaks to the Nation. Matthew Rothchild, Editor of The Progressive Magazine; Michael Klare, Prof. Of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College, author of Blood and Oil: The dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency. 7:30 David Bacon on Labor: BART update, Iraqi Labor leaders visit the Bay Area. 8:00 American Council … Continued
7:00 am7:00 The US Supreme Court Completes Its session. Edward Lazarus, Author of Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court 7:30 Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, authors of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution. 8:00 Art exhibit: Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World. reaction … Continued
7:00 am 7:00 The world economy. Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer, author of After the New Economy just out in paperback from New Press. 7:30 Paul Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 8:00 Margot Pepper, Through the Wall: A … Continued
7:00 Sweatshop Free. San Francisco Ordinance to be introduced Tuesday. Valerie Orth, Campaign Organizer, Global Exchange; Nikki Bas, Executive Director, Sweatshop Watch. 7:20 Hawaiian Sovereignty and the Akaka Bill. Clyde Namuo, adminstrator with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Ann Keala Kelly, journalist, filmmaker. 7:52 A victory over Comcast: Peter Franck, chair of Media Action Marin, … Continued
7:00 Kani Xulam, director of the American Kurdish Information Network www.kurdistan.org 7:30 Asra Nomani, author of Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam 8:00 Social Security: Still on Bush’s Agenda. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research, co-director. 8:20 Jennifer Stone with Stone’s Throw 8:30 Possible flu vaccine … Continued
7:00 Phyllis Bennis, author of Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Are Defying US Power 7:30 David Bacon on Labor, Immigration and CAFTA; Salvador Cordon; Renee Saucedo; You can call Mr. Kobori with Levi’s and tell him that you want Levi’s to recognize the independent union voted for by the Lajat plant. His … Continued
7:00 Charges of Terrorism in Lodi. Basim Elkarra, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations. 7:30 Questioning and Rejecting Religion in a Time of Religious Extremism. Norm Allen — executive director of African-Americans for Humanism and an editor at Free Inquiry magazine secularhumanism.org; Larry Hickok, coordinator of East Bay Atheists
7:00 World Refugee Day. Tram Nguyen, executive editor ColorLines magazine, former refugee from VietNam 7:30 BART workers talk about labor/management issues. Andrew Powell, train operator for 10 years ATU; Carolyn Daru, station agent ATU; Harry Gordon, frontline worker on the third rail, belongs to SEIU 790; Susan McDonough, SEIU 790 Field Representative who requested information … Continued
