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Democracy Now! September 2, 2002
LABOR DAY SPECIAL: as dockworker s negotiations break down and a work slow-down looms, Bush threatens to bring in troops; LABOR DAY SPECIAL, part 2, immigrant workers: 100 airport workers are arrested in Los Angeles; hundreds of thousands flee Malaysian crackdown; LABOR DAY SPECIAL, part 3, Unjust Rewards : Washington rewards workplace safety violators with…
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Democracy Now! May 8, 2002
California Supreme Court rules Nike can be sued for lying about its labor practices, vs. ACLU who sides with Nike : a debate ; Rockerfeller drug laws: from New York to Tulia to Tallulah ; Mothers of the New York Disappeared, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Tonya White. |9:01-9:06 Headlines: HEADLINE:NO US GUNS TO ISRAEL: CALIFORNIA…
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MORNING SHOW MARCH 20, 2002 : HOST SONALI KOLHATKAR’S INTERVIEW WITH MANUEL CRIOLLO, BUS RIDERS UNION.
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Democracy Now! February 7, 2002
Crashing the stock market: through the police barricades, the metal detectors and the security checks, a Democracy Now! exclusive. Its the hottest ticket in town, the gala soiree of the World Economic Forum on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Democracy Now! takes you inside the party of the power elite for a…
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Barbara Ehrenreich – Two Tape Set
TAPE 1: (90 min.total) Pt. 1(30 min.)”Nickel and Dimed” a talk about her book with the same title. Recorded June 2, 2001; and Pt. 2 (60 min.) State of Feminism speech. Recorded 1999. [PZ0403] TAPE 2: (60 min. total) Pt.1 Speech about subject of her book, “Blood Rites: origins and history of the passions of…
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May Day And The American Labor Movement With Sabina Virgo.
May Day And The American Labor Movement With Sabina Virgo. Vietnamese workers call for the end to the war in Saigon, 1966; Ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug rocks the No Nukes Rally in 1979; and a 1971 May Day rally in support of the Black Panther Nine. The American labor movement is explored through clips from a…
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Democracy Now! September 3, 2001
Its Labor Day. Well talk to John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO about the state of the labor movement under the Bush Administration. Well go to Canada, where tens of thousands of workers are taking to the streets of Toronto today; and well continue our coverage of the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban,…
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Democracy Now! February 25, 1999
Jasper Trial; U.N. Seeks Retrial of American in Peruvian Prison; L.A. Eight Face Deportation; Levi Strauss Moves Plant Overseas |Jasper Trial An update on the sentencing phase of the murder trial of John William King, a white supremacist convicted of the capital murder of an African-American man (James Byrd, Jr.). GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, reporter for…
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Democracy Now! January 28, 1999
East Timor; Caesar Chavez Induction into Labor Hall of Fame |(34 Minutes) East Timor Bowing to international pressure, the Indonesian military has retreated for the first time in 23 years from its hard-line stance on Indonesia’s continued occupation of East Timor. After a prolonged meeting with Prsident B.J. Habibie and his cabinet, Foreign Minister Ali…
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Democracy Now! February 16, 1999
American Airlines Sick-out; Violent Crime and Native Americans; Kurdish Rebel Leader Arrested |American Airlines Sick-out Most pilots with American Airlines have returned to work after a 10-day massive sick-out to protest the two-tiered pay scale imposed by the airline after it bought Reno Air, a smaller airline. After canceling 12% of its flights yesterday, American…