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Elizabeth Holtzman, former member of House of Representatives who served on the Nixon impeachment panel, will be testifying Friday, July 25, when the House Judiciary Committee considers Dennis Kucinich's bill with a single Article of Impeachment charging George W. Bush invaded Iraq under false pretenses. Holtzman was interviewed by Peter B. Collins on July 22. Here is a four-minute QuickTime excerpt from the interview:

The Indigenous Environmental Network hosted its 15th Protecting Mother Earth Conference in Shoshoneland from July 17-20th, 2008. Here are some audio highlights from the third day, which was themed around the issue of Climate Change and featured powerful speakers from the front lines of struggles against large development projects that are the root cause of Climate Change. Listen to the entire panel on www.earthcycles.net!

When Obama speaks (especially in his post-primary incarnation) one hears a profound nationalism. He has spoken in the past of an American history that many of us know has never actually existed. It has forced him to denounce a man he once knew, admired and respected (here I speak, of course, of the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright) for making whites uncomfortable by speaking ugly truths about American history, at home and abroad. Is this but the necessary shifts occasioned by the nasty game of politics? Or is it the road occasioned by one being an outsider, making that transition to the consummate insider? Time will tell.

Once again, a major American scientific figure has emerged from the shadows of his laboratory, to insult Black people, and their genetic inability.

J. Patrick O'Connor, author of "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal", talks about his theory of events that led to the death of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. O'Connor asserts Kenneth Freeman killed officer Faulkner during a traffic stop involving an altercation between Officer Faulkner and Billy Cook, Mumia's brother. O'Connor explains how a corrupt police department set out to silence a local journalist and one of its biggest critics.

Hear Eric Vega, Professor of Chicano Studies at CSUS as he spoke to the Sacramento United Nations Association on June 23, 2008.

Julia Harumi Mass, staff attorney with the ACLU, discusses the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in an attempt to learn more about the Homeland Security agency ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

On Monday July 14th students, workers, and supporters from the University of Californina Santa Cruz stopped by Free Radio Santa Cruz to help provide coverage about the first day of the 5 day UC-wide strike. 8,500 University of California workers represented by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) began a five-day strike at UC's ten campuses and five medical centers. The strike, which began on July 14th, will conclude on July 18th. At issue are poverty wages as low as $10 per hour. Many employees work 2-3 jobs and qualify for public assistance to meet their families' basic needs.

Simba Kenyatta is a member of the Coalition for a County Wide Community Dialogue on Race, Poverty, Equality, and Justice, and a political and social activist with decades of work in Santa Cruz. We talked about the Coalition's Listening Sessions that are documenting the experience and reality of racism in the community. 43 Minutes & 42 Seconds, MP3 format.

Saturday, July 12, 2008 : This week on Crossing The Line: Supporters of Dr. Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian political prisoner being held in the US, are outraged at a new indictment after al-Arian refused to appear before a grand jury probing an Islamic charity in northern Virginia. Host Naji Ali gets an update from Dr. al-Arian's daughter, Laila, regarding this latest indictment.

When he was housed at the state prison in Pittsburgh, he participated in the Scared Straight program, and spoke to young people coming into the prison, deeply impressing upon them the emptiness and loss of imprisonment. He did all he could to convince them to avoid this fate. Bushead was 50 years old. He lived from the streets to the prison, a high octane, high energy, high volume life. His illness, which led to his long and tortuous suffering, was utterly debilitating. Hi memory among many prisoners, will evoke smiles, and hearty laughter, despite the manner of his passing.

Daniel Ellsberg spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday March 30. His talk, "Must America Remain an Outlaw State?" was on the occasion of War and Law League (WALL), tenth birthday. http://www.warandlaw.org/files/index.html WALL, founded in March 1998, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, San Francisco-based group that wants the U.S. to follow its Constitution, its treaties, and customary international law insofar as they concern war and peace.

Quienes formamos parte del espacio Voces Oaxaqueñas Construyendo Autonomía y Libertad (VOCAL) queremos denunciar mediante esta carta el grave clima de hostigamiento, criminalización y persecución que el gobierno de Ulises Ruiz Ortiz y los medios de comunicación locales han desatado en los últimas semanas en contra de algunos integrantes de nuestro espacio de manera directa.