UPS Strike; Watts Anniversary; Frogs
|(14 Minutes) UPS Strike Update on UPS strike. GUEST: Alexander Cockburn, columnist for the The Nation magazine and the The Anderson Valley Advertiser, co-editor of Counterpunch. GUEST: Bob Fitch, prof. of metropolitan studies at NYU. Former union organizer and former economic consultant to the Communication Worker’s of America. (19 Minutes) Watts Anniversary A look back at Watts riots. GUEST: Gerald Horne, prof. at the University of NC. Author of BOOK: THE FORE THIS TIME: THE WATTS UPRISING OF THE 1960’S. (17 Minutes) Frogs Report of alarming increase in number deformities in frogs across the country. GUEST: Dr. Robert McKinnell, cell biologist at the University of Minnesota who has been studying frogs for almost forty years.
Democracy Now! August 11, 1997
PRA Archive #:
PZ0287.385
Date Recorded On:
August 11, 1997
Date Broadcast On:
August 11, 1997
Item Duration:
59:00
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Station: Pacifica National Programming
Program: Democracy Now! August 11, 1997
Series: DEMOCRACY NOW!
Keywords: Biology, Blacks., Civil rights., Cockburn, Alexander., COMMUNICATION WORKER’S OF AMERICA, COMMUNITY CONCERNS, CONSUMER AFFAIRS, CWA, Economics., ENVIRONMENT / POLLUTION, Environment., FITCH, BOB, FROGS, GENERAL HISTORY, GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCE, Horne, Gerald., INDUSTRY AND LABOR, International relations., MCKINNELL, ROBERT, Peace movement., RIOTS, Strikes., TEAMSTERS, UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, WATTS
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