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April 29, 2005
TOPIC: Orange County Protestors Arrested
GUESTS: Duane Roberts, Orange County activist
On October 22nd 2004, community activists gathered to march against police brutality in Santa Ana. During that march several activists were injured and arrested. Two were arrested for obstructing the police, and two more were arrested for using bullhorns. So far two have settled or plead guilty, but Mexican-American Indigenous Rights Activist, Naui Huitzilopochtli is fighting his case in court this week. For an update on the case, we have on the line Duane Roberts, another Orange county based activist.

For more information email duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com, or call 714-830-8317.


TOPIC: Right Wing Attacks on Ward Churchill
GUESTS: Ward Churchill, professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado at Boulder.
Imminent Native American scholar, activist and writer Ward Churchill had been the center of a right wing attack in recent months for an essay that he wrote in the aftermath of 9-11. Fox News programmer Bill O'Reilly devoted his show The O’Reilly to denouncing Churchill for weeks. Churchill, a tenured professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was forced to resign his position as chair of the ethnic studies department but retained his teaching position, despite a call by Colorado Governor Bill Owens for Churchill to resign from his job. Churchill has received numerous death threats. Earlier this week Ward Churchill spoke at Claremont Colleges and today we bring you a short excerpt of his lengthy speech. This speech was recorded by David Adelson of LA Sound Posse.

On Monday we’ll play you a longer excerpt of Ward Churchill’s speech given at Claremont Colleges, where he goes into greater detail about what he actually said and what the attacks on him mean.

TOPIC: Girl Planet: Global Diaries
GUESTS: Cristina Frias, Gabriela Lopez, Maria G. Martinez, and Raquel Salinas, performance writers and actors.
This weekend, four local women writers will present theatrical works at the Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles. In collaboration with their mentors, Julia Cho, Jessica Goldberg, Adriana Sevan, Judy Soo Hoo, and Annie Weisman, the four featured writers, Cristina Frias, Gabriela Lopez, Maria G. Martinez, and Raquel Salinas, have created 4 new works. It’s called Girl Planet: The Global Diaries – a Cross Town Collaboration. The writers have been holding summit meetings in preparation, and been “exploring the global territories of the most uncharted personal and political terrain” to create the performance works.

Performance Information:

TEADA Productions & The Center Theatre Group's Latino Theatre Initiative GIRL PLANET: GLOBAL DIAIRIES A CROSS TOWN COLLABORATION

Friday - Sunday April 29 - May 1

Four original pieces by eight writers who take on our global community. Julia Cho, Cristina Frias, Jessica Goldberg, Gabriela Lopez, Maria Martinez, Raquel Salinas, Judy Soo Hoo + Annie Weisman.

Friday + Saturday 8:30 PM $15
Sunday 2:00 PM followed by a panel discussion and reception $15

Highways Performance Space is located at the 18th Street Arts Center, 1651 18th Street, in Santa Monica.


TOPIC: Black Commentator
GUESTS: Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator
The Black Commentator is an online political magazine bringing you commentary, analysis and investigation from a black perspective. Today’s commentary by Glen Ford is about the US Prison population. Visit the Black Commentator online at www.blackcommentator.com.


TOPIC: May Day Immigrant Workers March
GUESTS: Cindy Cho, Community Organizer with Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA), Tony Bernabe, Organizer with Day Laborer Project with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Liz Sunwoo, Coordinator for the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON)
As we head into the month of May, activists across the globe are gearing up for an important day - May Day. May Day, whose modern day origins of a working class holiday, developed from the US workers struggle for the eight hour day in 1886. Since then, May Day has been a day of expression of workers’ solidarity. Today it is celebrated more outside the US than inside. But one of the few groups who will be celebrating this day is MIWON- or the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON). As anti-immigrant sentiment heightens in the halls of Congress, the White House, and corporate media, MIWON says, “Immigrants regardless of their country of origin, labor in the hardest, loneliest and most badly paid jobs in this country. These immigrants make close to 50% of the U.S. labor force in California. Moreover, immigrants pay between $90 to $140 billion dollars in federal, state, and local taxes. However, many of our brothers and sisters suffer from abuse, exploitation and even deportation.”

The May Day March will take place on Saturday April 30th at 12 noon on the corner of Broadway and Olympic. The march will begin at 12:30 and head to Historic Olvera Street. For more information call MIWON at 213-738-9050.

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