Haitians Barricading Streets with Coffins as Protests against U.N. Continue over Cholera Outbreak; As New York Debates Secure Communities Program, Study Challenges Controversial Policy to Deport Immigrant Prisoners; Student, Prisoner Advocate Tam Phan Faces Deportation Order to Vietnam; and Punk Rock Legend Patti Smith Wins National Book Award for Memoir Just Kids. Today’s Headlines … Continued
This week on Apex Express, we highlight Keep Her Safe, Please! Jakarta 1998, a new work of dance and music drawing on Chinese and Indonesian traditions inspired by the conflicts in Indonesia in 1998 and the universal struggle of immigrants. Presented by Wan-Chao Dance, Gadung Kasturi Balinese Dance and Music, HEI GU Chinese Percussion Ensemble, and Midiyanto. … Continued
Indigenous Navigational Guidance for Now Caroline welcomes two Indigenous Women Stewards of Navigational lore: Elizabeth Lindsey. Polynesian explorer, keeper of ethnonavogational lore, first female fellow in the history of the NationalGeographic, currently collaborating withgoogle ongeospatial “Map of the Human Story.” And Melisaa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis Turtle Moumtain Chippewa, cultural ecologist andindigenous scholar-activist. Director of the Cultural … Continued
Omar Kahdr: First Guantanamo detainee to go on trial, Ask a Meteorologist: Pakistan Floods, Russian Fires and Heat waves,Washington wrap up: Jobs bill, $6 million for border security and Maxine Waters, Google and Verizon strike a deal to make us pay, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Pratap Chatterjee, Warlord Inc., an investigation into charges of the U.S. paying off the Taliban, Tim Wise author of Color Blind: the rise of post racial politics and the retreat from racial equity, David Bacon: workers fired at Mercados Su Vianda in San Jose/Labor in Iraq, Is Google Making us stupid? With author Nicholas Carr, … Continued
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs gas-tax legislation, Google works around China's censorship, David Bacon on Labor, A look at Whitman and Poizner's anti-immigration views, Health Care Bill and Californians
Detail account of how health care reform will effect you with Peter Harbage of University Southern California. Analysis on Google Vs China with Arvind Ganesan, Director of Human Rights Watch's Business and Human Rights Program and Ezra Gottheil, Senior Analyst at Technology Business Research
Tea Party Movement Convention, Taser death of 16 year-old Baron “Scooter” Pikes in Lousiana, Workplace Rights in the age the internet, Google Books digitizing everything, Charter schools increase segregation?
The Morning Show reports on the Tragedy in Haiti. Followed by a conversation on Obama’s plan to tax your health insurance premiums. Then a new graphic novel, “Footnotes on Gaza” by Joe Sacco. In the second hour a look at Google’s threat to leave China. Wrapping up the program a conversation with Wade Davis, author … Continued
Pentagon Budget Will Not Stimulate Economy; Black Agenda Report on the AIG Executive Bonuses; Obama Leaves Open Room for Indefinite Detention; Empire Notes on Jon Stewart's Recent Interview; Privacy Advocates Up in Arms Over Google's New Advertising Policies.
