GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
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The Culture they brought / produced by Colin Edwards.
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Democracy Now! February 23, 1999
Jasper Trial Goes to Jury; Bloated Pentagon Budget; Delayed Justice |Jasper Trial Goes to Jury It was one of the most shocking crimes in recent years–the brutal racist killing of African-American James Byrd. Today, that murder trial is headed for a jury in Jasper, Texas. GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, reporter for Democracy Now! Bloated Pentagon Budget…
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Democracy Now! February 19, 1999
Jasper; Woodfox; Interview about Herman Wallace |(14 Minutes) Jasper Today is the third day of the murder trial of white supremist John William King, accused of dragging an African American man to death behind a pickup truck. Yesterday, a former fellow inmate of King’s testified that King had vowed in prison that he would kidnap…
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Red Diapers
Red Diapers Today’s guests were included in the anthology BOOK: RED DIAPERS: GROWING UP I THE COMMUNIST LEFT edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro. Stephanie Allen — labor union organizer, former KPFT news editor, whose father was arrested and imprisoned under the Smith Act Robbie Meripol–son of Julius an Ethel Rosenberg co-founder of the…
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke
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Too Many Wars in America
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John Ross and Javier Elorriaga
Part I: John Ross, award-winning author and journalist. Ross has been reporting on popular struggle in Mexico and Latin America for teh better part of two decades. Ross is also a social activist, a poet and the author of three books. BOOK: REBELLION FROM THE ROOTS, chronicalling the first year of the Zapatista rebellion in…
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Dr. Jack Forbes
This program features one of the nation’s leading scholars on indigenous rights, Dr. Jack Forbes. Forbes is a professor and former chair of the Native American Studies Department at the University of CA Davis. In the following talk, given 2.7.98 at the Southwest Museum in LA, Dr. Forbes talks about relations…and the little known shared…
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D.W.B.-Driving While Black
D.W.B. Driving While Black –and other associated phenomena. African Americans compose 14% of the American population, but some studies indicate that African americans account for as many as 73% of all routine stops by traffic officers. This constitutes a perpetual assault on the dignity of law abiding citizens. And by extrapolation, this ratio vividly suggests…
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Toward a Multicultural History
Toward a Multicultural History GUEST: Dr. Ronald Takaki is a professor in the Ethnic Studies Dept. ar U.C. Berkeley. His pro-affirmative action counterproposal to Proposition 209 will be printed in the October 5 issue of “The Nation” in preparation for the Berkeley walk out protest scheduled for the 20th or 21st of October. He will…