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Today's headlines:
A Report from Monrovia, Liberia on the Ongoing Medical Nightmare
facing the citizens of this war-torn country....and "Crossing
the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors, and Aliens in a New America."
Day five of our pledge drive. Pledge today to receive a CD
audio version of the new documentary by BBC reporter Greg
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$150 Pledge #239 CD: Greg Palast Bush Family Dynasty $75 Contribution
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5:01 PM PST
Medical Conditions in Liberia Dennis interviews Dr. Myers
of Oklahoma of Doctors Without Borders who are having a very
difficule time in treating victims who are falling to the
strife which has overcome Monrovia, Liberia and its suburbs.
Chief among the problems he is encountering is the lack of
food...a meal every four days!...these meals are limited to
1000 calories which is far below the 2500 calories per day
which healing serious surgery requires...brutal wounds caused
by the constant mortar attacks bring the patients to the hospital
---when they are able to get there,-- due to a lack of gasoline
for the ambulances!
5:05 PM PST
Crossing the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors and Aliens in
a New America: Queens Boulevard, the long route through the
Borough of Queens in western Long Island stretches through
the New America of more than a hundred languages and dialects
as the more fortunate newly displaced refugees have found
room to live in the most populated place in the United States.
Crossing Queens Boulevard can be a problem when so many busy
people are driving, riding, and traveling and that is the
jumping-off of place for this new book of the experience of
the cultural mosaic which is eastern New York City. Judith
Sloan and Warren Lehner EAR
SAY are interviewed by Dennis and offer this wonderful
book as a gift for those who are able to donate $100 to KPFA
during the final days of the Summer On-Air Mini Drive. For
a donation of $60 there is a CD with the musical montage of
voices and the bustle of the diversity along the Boulevard.
You can have both for a contribution of $150 and If you are
quick you can get one of the last copies of the Judith Sloan
interview conducted by Dennis Bernstein for a pledge of $60.
.....this is a beautiful book and we will be featuring its
photographs for the next few days. The quality of the photos
is so good that we are presently experiencing difficulties
in reproducing them in the quality which they deserve to be
shown!
UC Berkeley Nobel Laureate Slams Bush "American Nobel
Prize laureate for Economics George A. Akerlof lashed out
at the government of George W. Bush, in an interview for Der
Spiegel, google
english translation. '"I think this is the worst
government the US has ever had in its more than 200 years
of history. It has engaged in extradordinarily irresponsible
policies not only in foreign policy and economics but also
in social and environmental policy,' said the 2001 Nobel Prize
laureate who teaches economics at the University of California
in Berkeley. 'This is not normal government policy. Now is
the time for (American) people to engage in civil disobedience.
I think it's time to protest - as much as possible,'
8:55:30 PM PST
End today's show. today's comments by Michael Jordan
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