The Only Way Out of Iraq? Troops and Teachers
Rich Gibson,

The US will not be voted out of Iraq, nor lobbied out of Iraq, and probably not marched out of Iraq. At issue is determining who is positioned, with the interest and wisdom, to end what is rapidly becoming the brink of World War III. Who might end the perpetual mass industrialized slaughter, and how might we do it?
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End the War! Get Involved! Planning Meeting/Church of Brethren Jan 2
vera lux,

Come to the planning meeting for the upcoming local anti-war protest. Tuesday, January 2nd 7pm. Church of the Brethren 3850 Westgate Place.


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Israel's orders
Digery Cohen,

Stand, fight and die for us and then bomb Iran
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There is No Doubt: Bush Spy Program is UnCons
alaskafreepress,

Join Cindy Sheehan and thousands of others in DC beginning Jan 3rd- stay as long as it takes.

Demand Impeachment!
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MORE TROOPS MEANS MORE GENOCIDE
Lloyd Hart,

Good fucking luck Democrats.
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Progressive San Diego Rallies for Impeachment
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Progressive San Diego and other allied organizations held an indoor rally on "Presidential Accountability" December 9 that was actually intended to mobilize support for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Speakers included former Congressional candidate Jeeni Criscenzo, Michael Kuzart of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Aïda Reyes of World Can't Wait and Gloria Daviston of San Diego Veterans for Peace. The program also heard a videotaped presentation from National Lawyers' Guild president Marjorie Cohn and focused on the war in Iraq and the Bush administration's shredding the Constitution as part of the so-called "War on Terror."

“When we impeach Bush and Cheney,” Judy Hess of Progressive Democrats of San Diego said, “Nancy Pelosi will become president of the United States.” Acknowledging that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders slated to take over Congress in January have said that impeachment is “off the table,” Hess said that the purpose of the meeting — and of similar events taking place nationwide — was to build a groundswell of popular support for impeachment that will prevent the Democrats in Congress from continuing to duck the issue.

Related: McKinney Files Articles of Impeachment | Indymedia Coverage of Impeachment Campaign | Impeachment Resource Center
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December 17 Mass Rally in Manila
AJLLPP-USA,

AJLPP -USA and Philippine news sources reported today that the December 17 prayer rally in Manila will push through.

AN “escalation of crises” that the leaders of the country’s Roman Catholic Church can no longer take sitting down prompted the Church to spearhead tomorrow’s planned huge prayer rally at Manila’s Rizal Park. News reports also confirmed that top officials of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines yesterday rebuffed calls from administration stalwarts for them to abandon the rally at the Quirino Grandstand in the wake of the decision by Ms Arroyo’s allies to scrap plans to convene a constituent assembly.

The CBCP secretary general, Msgr. Juanito Figura, said the CBCP could no longer ignore the escalating problems facing the country, including the questions surrounding President Macapagal-Arroyo’s disputed victory in the 2004 elections. Figura specifically cited the “Garci” tapes, which set off the election controversy, the P728-million fertilizer fund scam and the so-called Mayuga report on the alleged involvement of military officials in election fraud as among the issues unresolved to this day.

“The Church cannot play blind, deaf and mute to the sufferings that these issues have brought,” Figura said in a press conference.



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Omissions In the Iraq Study Group Report
Stephen Lendman,

Omissions in the ISG Report are more important than what's in it.
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Congress Votes 368-31 Against Mumia
Steven Argue,

Five California Democrats in Congress voted nay while 23 voted for the resolution. Those voting against were Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Fortney Stark, Michael Honda, and Maxine Waters.

Joining in the racist lynch mob voting for the blood of an innocent black man were California Democrats C. Thompson, Doris Matsui, Nancy Pelosi, Ellen Tauscher, Tom Lantos, Anna Eshoo, Zoe Lofgren, Dennis Cardoza, Lois Capps, Jim Costa, Linda Sanchez, Brad Sherman, Adam Schiff, Henry Waxman, Hilda Solis, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Jane Harman, Juanita Millender-McDonald, Grace Napolitano, Joe Baca, Loretta Sanchez, Bob Filner, and Susan Davis. Not voting were Diane Watson, Howard Berman, and Xavier Becerra.

Also voting for blood were California Republicans Walter Herger, Daniel Lungren, John Doolittle, Richard Pombo, George Radanovich, Devin Nunes, William Thomas, Elton Gallegly, David Dreier, Edward Royce, Jerry Lewis, Gary Miller, Ken Calvert, Mary Bono, Dana Rohrabacher, John Campbell, Darrell Issa, Brian Bilbray, and Duncan Hunter. Howard McKeon didn’t vote.

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Does Ahmadinejad Really Deny Nazi Holocaust?
Or Does He Question Zionism?? ,

Recently the controversial President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hosted a conference titled "World Without Zionism" where the official version of the Nazi's Holocaust of WW2 was challenged. Looking beyond media's accusations of "anti-Semitism" to understand what Ahmadinejad is saying..
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Cynthia McKinney HOLDING PRESS CONFERENCE?
Nick Trupiano,

PRESS RELEASE:

PRESS CONFERENCE REVEALED: WILL CYNTHIA MCKINNEY BE TALKING ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD?

Cynthia McKinney, official Congresswoman of Georgia retires after sending an impeachment bill against President George W. Bush to the House Floor this Friday.

Subjects to be discussed are according to our sources, Election Fraud, Impeachment, Mark Foley, Jeff Fisher and word has it an expose on the Administration.

Is there something happening soon? It sure seems to be the case, follow us all through-out the week and be sure to check in for our updates!
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Iraq War Resister Kyle Snyder Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

At 19, Kyle Snyder joined the Army for the usual reasons a 19-year-old would: a $5,000 signing bonus and promises of health coverage and college aid. Four years later, he's touring the country in a bus run by the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and speaking largely to student audiences — many of them students of color — in schools heavily recruited by the military. He's also fulfilling the opportunity the military promised him and then reneged — the chance to reconstruct infrastructure for a devastated population — not in Iraq, but in New Orleans, where IVAW members have an ongoing cleanup project to rehabilitate homes flooded in Hurricane Katrina.

“There’s not a day that goes by without me thinking about the 500,000 Iraqis and 3,000 Americans who have died. I support the troops but oppose the war. I want my friends home so I don’t have to question anymore. I don’t believe in the Bush administration. One minute I’m looked at as a hero, and the next as a traitor. It’s difficult for me to understand that kind of logic.”

Iraq Veterans Against the War | San Diego Pablo Paredes Coverage: 1 2 3 4 5
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The End of the Bush Dynasty
Stephen Lendman,

How George Bush hastened the demise of the Bush family political dynasty
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The Marla Ruzicka Story -- The *Real* Story
by Christian Parenti (posted by JA),

No one who was a threat -- let alone any real threat -- to the U.S. imperialist war machine would ever be gushingly and pervasively celebrated by it, the President, the Congress, imperialist politicians, and the military, no less, as well as the political establishment's corporate media. Marla Ruzicka -- even posing for pictures on top of tanks and in group hugs with gun-posing American soldiers, let alone using the war and exploiting the misery of the Iraqi people to parlay that into a hoped-for lucrative cushy position inside the Pentagon or State Department, feathering her nest and her new career with military-industrial complex money (yet still a pittance of that spent on the bombs of war) -- served as a willing PR front for that machine. Furthermore, she was willing to collect and *give* that information directly to the US *military*, providing it with, in effect, valuable intelligence on the Iraqi people (how many males and females of which ages, including possible fighting age, in each family, and what their resources and professional/community positions were, perhaps a community critic of the US war, maybe an intellectual, a journalist, a teacher, or a doctor/nurse who could patch up Iraqi wounded resistace fighters, and who in each family might have gotten shot -- perhaps a resistance member? -- by the US military) under the guise of humanitarian relief. Here is what progressive journalist Christian Parenti had to say about the darling of the U.S. imperialist military machine:
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TownHall Forum On Presidential Accountability
Al uh Looyah,

Topics Include: Lied Into War - the First Assault on Human Rights - Atrocities in Iraq - Extraordinary Rendition - Domestic Repression - Patriot and Military Commissions Acts - US Detention Centers and Martial Law
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CHEAP ART AND KEEP KIDS OUT OF THE MILITARY!
Bob Davis,

BUY HOLIDAY GIFTS AND
HELP KEEP KIDS OUT OF THE MILITARY!
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3RD IN HILLCREST
1601 University Avenue, 2 blocks West of Park Blvd.
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
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Teacher on PFP Terror in Oaxaca
interview, transcription, translation by O, J, B, R, E and K,

This is the testimony (via phone) of a teacher from an outlying village on November 21, the day after she participated in a women's march in Oaxaca City that was was attacked by Mexican Federal Preventative Police (PFP), who have been occupying Oaxaca since October 29. She talks about the attack on the march, repression of and violence against women and children, the failure of organizations such as Amnesty International to help and the importance of international solidarity. (Spanish with english translation)

"Right now in Oaxaca there is a generalized repression, but since last week, another form of repression started, one that is geared towards children and women. When we walk by the streets where the men of the PFP, with the excuse of looking for weapons, they search us. Touching all of our bodies, both men and female, and if that was not enough, they made fun... That is why the day before yesterday, the women decided to mach and protest against the violence towards our gender, and of course against their power and violence."

"The comrades of the village asked us (women) to lead the march, because they are angry at what they (PFP) are doing (to us)... Just as we were passing by the attacks started. There was an incredible amount of tear gas that did not let us breathe or see where we were headed. We had to protect the children with our bodies and hide them under our clothes trying to get them away and we would scream that there were kids and old people there. That they needed to stop the aggression, but they had it all prepared. There was no sense in running, they were attacking from all four sides. It was then that the youth from the university arrived and began taking the kids away from the area. We were able to see that some of the guys were pulled. That is why we were so anguished, and we wanted to know what had happened to our youth. And we were told that they (PFP) pulled a female too. For about two or three hours after that, they were shooting tear gas to where we were running. And well, they had us in that state of terror, and in those moments all we could do was to pull back to the church, and to ask for medical assistance."

"We also insisted that the people we had heard were present, from amnesty international; to show up and testify the state of terror and violence they have had Oaxaca in for more than 5 months now. Unfortunately, they told us they could not come, because they had a very busy agenda."

"I world like to say that it saddens me a lot to be in the streets, and to see that I am becoming part of a now normal and typical panorama, that these aggressors, these invaders are here in our streets. It is sad to see that the warm, beautiful Oaxaca filled with brave people now is invaded by these people (PFP). And I think to my self: how long will they be here; intimidating us?"

"I know that somewhere in this world there are many hearts that will hear and understand our call, and I can assure you that we feel those invisible hands, that even though we do not see, we know they are fighting for our dignity. Especially the women: don’t leave us alone. We are not afraid, we are filled with indignation, rage for what they are doing. Keep on answering our calls. I have a lot of confidence in the help of the international community, and of course of our people. We are going to accomplish it. This century will change all the things that need to change."
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NOAM CHOMSKY AND GILBERT ACHCAR'S NEW BOOK -
Stephen Lendman,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S DISASTROUS POLICIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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PAHAYAG NG AJLPP PARA SA NOB.30, 2006
AJLPP-USA,

Pahayag ng AJLPP-USA sa Ika-143 Taong Kaarawan Nobyembre 30, 2006 at ika-42 taong Anibersaryo ng Kabataang Makabayan (KM)

Buong pagmamalaking ipinagdiriwang natin lalo ng Alyansa para Tunay at Pangmatagalang Kapayapaan sa Pilipinas (AJLPP)-USA ,ang ika 143 taong kaarawan ng dakilang Supremo Andres Bonifacio, ang tagapagtatatag ng Katipunan na tumapos sa mahigit sa 300 daang taong paghahari ng Kolonyalismong Espanya sa Pilipinas, Nobyembre 30, 1863.

Eksaktong sa ika 101 taong ng kanyang kaarawan, itinatag naman ang organisasyong Kabataang Makabayan (KM) noong Nobyembre 30, 1964. Kasunod nito, nagtatag din ng iba’t-ibang organisasyong kabataan ang mga estudyante at kabataan at mga nasa komunidad tulad ng Samahang Demokratikong Kabataan (SDK), Katipunan ng Kabataang Demokratiko (KKD), Samahang Molabe (SM), Kamanyang at iba pa sa iba’t ibang panig ng Pilipinas.

Mula noon, nag-iba na ang takbo ng kasaysayan. Mula sa mga maliit na aksyong masa, unti-unti ito ay lumaki at nagiging matutunog na pagkilos. Noong Oktubre 24, 1966 hanggang sa pagsiklab ang welga ng mga guro noong unang hati ng 1969 hanggang sa malakihang mga welgang estudyante na yumanig sa buong Pilipinas. Hanggang sa pumutok ang Sigwa ng Unang Kwarto noong Enero 1970.

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America's "War on Terrorism" e-book
Michel Chossudovsky,

"Chossudovsky's book presents its readers with a harsh reality: terrorism is a tool used to maintain and expand the growth of corporate capitalism, led by the U.S. dollar and backed by the U.S. military might. His book is one of those 'connect-the-dots' works that should be required reading, especially for media-misled, history-starved Americans." - Kellia Rameres, Online Journal

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Election 2006: Mixed Blessings
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

An analysis of the November 7 election results plus the ways in which the Democratic takeover of Congress has been reported in the corporate media since. The analysis suggests that the Democrats will have a hard time maintaining their Congressional majority if they don't take a strong stand on corruption and ethics issues; that conservative social issues in general and a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage may actually have an easier time of passing in the new Congress, since many of the recently elected Democrats assured their constituents in their campaigns that they were anti-abortion rights and anti-Gay marriage; and that the "outings" of Florida Congressmember Mark Foley and Reverend Ted Haggard towards the end of the campaign may be more complex issues than most progressives believe.
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Hinggil sa Paghuhukom sa Kaso ni Nicole
Pesante-USA,

Kitang-kita ito sa kanilang pagtatangol sa Imperyalismong US at sa mga kawal ng Amerika na lumapastangan sa isang Pilipina noong Nobyembre 2005. Sa halip na kampihan at ipagtanggol ang Pilipina, nilait, halos ipinagbili at inalipusta pa nila ang pamilya ng nagsakdal at lantarang kumampi sa apat na lapastangan.

Ngayon, kahit ang hustisya ay binabalam dahil sa paglilipat ng desisyon mula Nobyembre 27 tungo ng Disyembre 4. Lubhang pinanabikan ng sambayanan ang hatol na nakabitin.


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What Price is the Bob Dylan in Each of Us?
rocky neptun,

It is the annual “Souper Supper” for the San Diego Peace Resource Center. Nearly 100 people of conscience gather in secular communion: walking human artifacts; year after year, decade after decade, they have not given up their need to oppose the abomination of war.

A lagoon of white heads and gray tinted beards, ninety percent are over 50 years of age; while a good third are over seventy. It was a familiar, cozy event. There were no youth at the gathering. Only white faces, perhaps two or three brown, showed up. There were no poor people; no scruffy, smelly, homeless folks who everyday in San Diego are victims of systematic violence by city officials and police.

Amid the old timey folk music sung by the musicians at the peace supper was ironically, “The Times They Are a Changing.” Is there an unstated recognition of similarity with Bob Dylan; his cult of personality, looking out for number one, his material wealth - now a part of the problem?

Perhaps, one day there will be a spark; just one more martyr, just one more atrocity, more news of widespread torture and our gentle folks at the Peace Resources annual Souper Supper will rise up. Risking the wrath of an increasingly totalitarian state and, worse, the ostracism of family and friends still tethered to the profit and exploit order; they may sell their belongings to support the movement and become mendicants for peace.


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Free Screening of 'The Myth and the Reality'
Al uh Looyah,

Free Screening of The Myth and the Reality
Sunday, December 10 at 6:30PM
Joyce Beers Center
Vermont St, San Diego CA 92101

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Hillary defends AIPAC
Digery Cohen,

and says Pelosi must give their place persons all the top jobs in Congress
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Make Dec. 1 Rosa Parks Human Rights Day
Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee,

Make December 1 Rosa Parks Human Rights Day

Friday, Dec. 1
1:00pm - Rally/March
Dudley Square, Roxbury, MA
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Socialist Party Makes Big Gains In The Nether
Steven Argue ,

Dutch voters were fed up with both the ruling Christian Democrat (CDA) government led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenede as well as the powerful Labor Party (PvdA) and Liberal Party (VVD). All three parties have carried out the policies of austerity and privatization that are components of the drive for higher corporate profit as well as integration into the capitalist European Union.
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Manifesto Presented to Consul as Oaxaca Solidarity Camp Closes
san diego indymedia volunteer,

With a press conference and presentation of a Manifesto to the Consul, the Oaxaca Solidarity Camp, which had occupied the sidewalk outside the San Diego Mexican Consulate since the invasion of Oaxaca City by Federal Preventative Forces (PFP) on October 29, closed Tuesday and moved to Chican@ Perk in Sherman Heights.

The Camp had become a center for education about the corrupt government in Oaxaca, ongoing repression and the resistance, as well as a hub for organizing activity. The Plantonistas communicated their messages using diverse tactics, including marches, rallies, banners, chants, photos, sidewalk chalk art, flyers, video showings and conversations.

As the Camp was being dismantled, the Consul Luis Cabrera presented himself to receive a copy of the VAPPOR-OAXACA Manifesto, signing a statement that he would forward it to outgoing President Vincente Fox and fraudulently elected incoming President Felipe Calderón.

Christy Will, who was present at the Camp Tuesday morning, introduced herself to the representative of the government that is violently repressing the resistance her brother Brad was documenting as he was murdered and that is sheltering his assassins. She earlier read a statement on Radio Universidad thanking the Plantonistas for their solidarity with the people of Oaxaca, expressing support for the demands of The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) and announcing the formation of a foundation to "support and contribute to nonviolent groups dedicated to the advancement of underserved people and communities throughout the world."

The Manifesto declares the solidarity of VAPPOR-OAXACA with the people of Oaxaca and their representatives, APPO. It connects the dots between the current struggle, the role of the international capitalist system stretching back 514 years to the European invasion, and the repression of Oaxaqueños and other migrants in the border region. It also submits demands paralleling those of APPO: immediate withdrawal of Mexican federal forces; a complete end to repression, harassment, torture and psychological warfare; freedom for all political prisoners and disappeared, with compensation; and the removal and immediate arrest, judgment and punishment of the corrupt governor Ulises Ruiz.

The Plantonistas reclaimed public space in front of the Consulate and held the space day and night despite harassment by cops and Consulate personnel in a heavily gentrified neighborhood of Little Italy, where private security forces aided by cops have made it nearly impossible to sit down, much less lie down, without buying crap.

The Camp was maintained by a coalition of individuals and groups operating on a consensus basis that came to be called VAPPOR (Vencera la Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca en Resistencia) OAXACA, including Oaxaqueños in San Diego County, Adherents to the Zapatista Sixth Declaration, Anarchists, Students, Migrant Advocates and others. Members of VAPPOR OAXACA plan to continue their educational efforts and actions elsewhere in San Diego.

Numerous other solidarity actions around the world have been raising awareness of ongoing repression and resistance in Oaxaca, despite a corporate media near blackout.

The Seventh MegaMarch, called for by APPO with the intention of surrounding PFP troops in the Zócalo of Oaxaca City and ejecting them on November 25, is in progress. For live coverage, check out Radio Universidad (go here and look to the right column to find the latest reliable streaming links).

Video 8min 20sec: Press Conference (espanol), Christy Will (english and espanol) and dismantling of the Camp.
Video:12min 17sec Presentation of Manifesto to Consul (espanol)
Press Release and Manifesto

Continuing Updates: espanol: 1 2 3 | english 1 2 3

UPDATE: Photos From Last Day of Planton

SD Reports: 1 2 3 4 5 6

SD Photos/Reports with Photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

SD Audio: 1 2 3

SD Video: 1 2 3 4 5 6

SD Features: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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Rally in Solidarity with Oaxaca Nov 19
san diego indymedia volunteer,

On Sunday November 19, a Rally in support of the resistance in Oaxaca was held at the Oaxaca Solidarity Camp, which had been occupying the sidewalk outside the San Diego Mexican Consulate continuously for three weeks.

The Rally included numerous speakers discussing the situation in Oaxaca and the courageous resistance of the people, a reading of the manifesto written by VAPPOR OAXACA (Vencera la Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca en Resistencia), the companer@s who been maintaining the Solidarity Camp, a phone call to Radio Universidad from a cousin of Brad Will who happened upon the Camp while visiting relatives in Little Italy, passionate and energetic music, and the dramatic arrival of marchers from another part of the city.

The Rally was part of a series of events leading up to November 20, for which the Zapatistas called for international actions in solidarity with the resistance in Oaxaca. Numerous events were held in the u.s. and globally, including a blockade of major roadways in Chiapas, a blockade, march and critical mass ride in San Francisco, and Oaxaca video showing, street theater and dance in Barcelona.

Video: Oaxaca Solidarity Camp Nov 19 Rally Part 1
Video: Oaxaca Solidarity Camp Nov 19 Rally Part 2

Past SDIMC Features on Oaxaca and the Camp: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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CSPAN to air KPFA's 911 and American Empire
Maya,

The September 24 KPFA event from Berkeley, CA, will air on C-Span's Book TV this weekend.

Friday Nov 24th: 4:00pm 1:00pm
Saturday Nov 25th: 3:30am 12:30am
10:00pm 7:00pm
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