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Keynote: John Perkins

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John Perkins is an economist and author. His best known book is "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" (2004), an insider's account of the exploitation or neo-colonization of Third World countries by what Perkins describes as a cabal of corporations, banks and the U.S. government. "The Secret History of the American Empire" makes further claims about the negative impact of global corporations on the economies and ecologies of poor countries and suggestions for making corporations behave more like good citizens.

GRITtv: Jeffrey Perry on Hubert Harrison, Harlem's Radical Voice

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Arturo Schomburg once described his friend and fellow bibliophile Hubert Harrison as a man who was ahead of his time. Ahead of his time and largely relegated to the margins of history. Until now. Jeffrey Perry has written the first volume of a biography of the radical activist, orator, and public figure, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry says that Harrison's iconoclasm, race, and working class roots all meant that he wasn't given the serious scholarly attention he deserves.

SourceCode: Immigration Emergency?

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Wake up and pay attention to the Immigration Emergency. This episode is about the legislation of intolerance and bigotry, and what you can do about it.First, Investigative Reporter Joe Richey reports on the Department of Homeland Security's existing funding, planning and execution of contracts (to KBR and other private security companies) to enable detection, detaining, and deportation of many immigrants. Some border states are already calling for the trigger: an official "Immigration Emergency".

SourceCode: New Orleans: Civil Rights from Ruin

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They're not refugees, the more 300,000 people of New Orleans who were driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina, and prevented from returning by their city, state and federal governments. They are citizens, and their civil and human rights have been trampled by an unjust system that is becoming LESS just with each passing day. The people of New Orleans are now threatened with losing their VOTES, and they are responding with community involvement that's spilling out from courtrooms and into the streets, the same streets that volunteers are trying to rebuild.

NorthWest Indian News: June 2009

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Issues this month include the Klamath River Dam removal, Tulalip Coast Guard Training; Pacific Coast Scenic Byway Workshop; and the West Coast American Indian Music Award. "NorthWest Indian News" tells stories and shares information about topics important to tribal communities and our neighbors throughout northwest America.

SourceCode: Patriot Act/Criminal Justice

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The people's rights are under attack! Jim Hightower explains why corporations are more human than you. Bernie Sanders explains why he voted against the Patriot Act. Head to a prison in California, the front line of the battle over rights for youth, the poor, and communities of color

Press for Democracy #7

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News Magazine featuring shows on issues of importance to the community, state, nation, and world.

Keynote: Maria Luisa Mendonca: The World Social Forum

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Maria Luisa Mendonça, an award-winning Brazilian film director talks about human rights for grassroots organizations to build alliances and develop social and economic alternatives based on human rights and sustainable development.

Keynote: Aqeela Sherrills: The Reverence Movement

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Aqeela Sherrills is an inspiring leader who emerged from the carnage of gang-war ravaged Watts after losing countless friends (and very recently his son) to violence, and decided to work tirelessly to bring peace, education, housing, jobs and self-respect to Los Angeles and other American inner cities. Sherrills offers his vision of the how the environmental, social justice, human rights and civil rights movements need to find common ground in a spirit of reverence and compassion, an understanding that their primary mission is the restoration of the vitality of the human spirit.

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