7:00 amHuman Rights and Torture in Iraq. Joe Stork, Washington Director for the Middle East and North Africa of Human Rights Watch; Eric Beal, Senior Council at Human Rights First. 7:30 amDavid Bacon on Labor: Robin Kirk, researcher with Human Rights Watch, author More Terrible than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War. 8:00 amBike to … Continued
7:00 amIraq, prisoner torture and contractors. Carl Conetta, co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives; Sarah Zaidi, research director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), at the World Tribunal on Iraq on May 8, CESR will be making a presentation on humanitarian crimes during the occupation of Iraq. 7:30 amLabor with David … Continued
7:00 amCare Not Cash program begins in San Francisco. Julie Brown, campaign director for POWER, and Donna Gates, lives in a shelter and is a member of the Coalition On Homelessness. 7:30 amNon-native salmon found in West Marin/Bush wants to count farmed salmon as wild salmon. Reuven Walder, watershed biologist, www.spawnusa.org. 7:45 amWorld Tribunal on … Continued
7:00 amElectronic Voting Machines. Bob Kibrick, legislative analyst for verifiedvoting.org; David Dill, computer professor at Stanford, co-founder of verifiedvoting.org. 7:30 amT.D. Allman, author of Rogue State: America at War with the World. 8:00 amSteven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. 8:30 amIs … Continued
7:00 amPhyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, author of Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN and Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis – www.ips-dc.org. 7:30 amBig Box stores. San Francisco Supervisor Jake McGoldrick; Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia; and Dee Dee Ferro, President of the … Continued
7:00 amGavin Newsom’s First 100 Days. Kamala Harris, Tim Redmond, Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. 7:30 amClosures at San Francisco State University. Brian DeVries, program director of the Master’s Program in Gerontology; Monica Wynn, second-year student in the gerontology graduate program; Dr. Lisa Hinds, assistant professor with the School of Social Work. … Continued
7:00 amRahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond, just back from three weeks in Iraq. 7:20 amImminent SBC strike with David Bacon. Yona Diamond, SBC technician and organizer. 7:30 amLabor with David Bacon. Rally at UPS Milton Lewis, UPS worker blacklisting of farmworkers. Andrew McGuffin, Legal Aid of North … Continued
7:00 amCrisis in Sudan with Walter Turner. Jemera Rone, Sudan/Uganda researcher with Human Rights Watch. 7:30 amMahmood Mamdani, author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror. 8:00 amAIDS in the African American community. Gloria Lockett, Director, California Prevention and Education Project; Thomas Simpson, Founder and Executive Director of … Continued
7:00 amSupreme Court hears case on Guantanamo prisoners. PLUS brief look at settlement in Earth First! case Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. 7:30 amU.S. Department of Energy wants to make nuclear weapons
7:00 amJoseph J. Romm, author of The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate. 7:30 amAn interview with Lynne Truss about her new book Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. 8:00 amReyna Cowan on San Francisco International Film Festival. "James’ Journey to Jerusalem," director Ra’nan … Continued
