NICARAGUA

  • Maryknoll Sisters on Leon, Nicaragua, 1981

    Talk by Maryknoll Sisters recorded during a June 1981 visit to Nicaragua by a study group of KPFK listeners. Two sisters, Julie Miller and Pat Murphy, talk about their work in Leon, Nicaragua. Background to the Maryknoll Sisters order (Catholic) is given and how they became involved in the Nicaraguan revolution, and how siding with…

  • Michio Kaku : Anti War Speech At The Deadly Connection Conference

    MICHIO KAKU: Anti-War speech given August 4, 1984 at the Deadly Connection Conference at Santa Monica High School, CA.|Michio Kaku, nuclear physicist and well-known peace activist,| begins with dedication to the 200,000 people who perished at Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a result of the atomic bombs. In 1983, WBAI organized a peace mission to Grenada…

  • Democracy Now! February 4, 1999

    Voices in the Wilderness-The Human Toll of 8 Years of Sanctions in Iraq; The CIA’s Role in the War on Drugs |Voices in the Wilderness – Human Toll of 8 Years of Sanctions in Iraq The united Nations ordered its remaining American staff members in Iraq to leave this week after Baghdad warned that it…

  • Democracy Now! November 5, 1998

    Post Election Roundtable; Nicaragua Aid |(33 Minutes) Post Election Roundtable Discussion of progressive issues following yesterday’s election. GUEST: Tammy Baldwin, Congresswoman-elect from Madison, WI, and first openly gay woman to be elected to Congress. GUEST: Van Jones, Exec. Dir. of the Bay Area Police Watch, from San Francisco. GUEST: Elaine Bernard, Dir. of Harvard University’s…

  • Latin American year end report : 1985 / produced by Pacifica Radio News.

    Pacifica correspondents recap the years events in Latin America. |Guatemala and the Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Awards / Patricia Garcia — Nicaragua / Joan Kruckwitte — Honduras — El Salvador. |Guatemala and the Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Awards / Patricia Garcia — Nicaragua / Joan Kruckwitte — Honduras — El Salvador.