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Participatory Budgeting in Vallejo; Ginny Browne, Community Engagement Coordinator for Participatory Budgeting Vallejo, and Lynda Daniels, Vice Chair of PB Steering Committee. Workplace Safety in the U.S. Workplace Safety in the Bay Area; Dorothy Wigmore, Occupational Health Specialist at Worksafe
Working Conditions in Bangladesh ; Rogery Davis Guatemala Rios Montt Trail De-Railed; Gaby Cruz, is with Radio Guerrilla, which has been covering the trial; and HIJOS Guatemala, an organization of people whose relatives were disappeared during Guatemala’s civil war. Gar Alperovitz; Author of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
Senate Hearings on Immigration Reform
Civil Liberties and the Boston Bombings; Baher Azmy, Legal Director with the Center for Constitutional Rights The Boston Bombings and Muslim Community; Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations , and Sergeant JD Nelson , Chief Information Officer, Alameda County Sheriff’s Department. San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Consider Fossil Fuel Divestment;John … Continued
Hunger Strike in Gitmo Update; Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard, a military commissions attorney for several of the Guantanamo prisoners Corrosion found in tanks in Chevron’s Richmond Refinery; Greg Karras, senior scientist at Communities for a Better Environment Earth Day Action for Environmental Justice Bradley Angel , Executive Director of Greenaction
David Kotz, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and coauthor of Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia Steve Levine, Fellow at the New America Foundation, served as a foreign correspondent in russia for 18 years. Author of Putin’s Labyrinth. Bicycle Day Mystic … Continued
Obama chastises Senate for Failing to Pass Gun Background Check Bill; Adam Winkler, professor of constitutional law at the UCLA School of Law and the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America Panel on Immigration bill; Crystal Patterson, Communications Director for the Immigration Policy at the Center for American … Continued
From Oklahoma City Bombings to the Boston Marathon; Mark Potok, Senior Fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center ASUC Senate to vote, on divestment from Israeli Militarism; Sadia Saifuddin, ASUC Senator , sponsor of the bill authored by Senator George Kaifa and Dr. Michael Harris, one of the founders of the San Francisco Voice for … Continued
Extreme De-Cluttering: Zero Waste;Bea Johnson, author of Zero Waste Home: the Ultimate guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
Goldman Environmental Award Winners announced;Azzam Alwash, Founder and President of Nature Iraq Fracking disclosure bill heads to hearing; Bob Weickowski, Assemblymember 25th District Taxes and Politics ; Susan Lee , Tax Preparer, Certified Financial Planner, (former) host of “You and Your Money” on WBAI in new york
