Lisa Dettmer interviews Fawn Yacker, co-director and co-producer of the award-winning film "Training Rules," about homophobia in women's collegiate basketball. Audio, 15 minutes. Plus a short clip from the film - 2 mins.

Minister Keith Muhammad notes that as of this Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, not a singly policing policy has changed in California, except that maybe police officers might be a little more wary of using force in "routine traffic stops" for fear of a video camera documenting their actions. He then goes on to discuss early known details of the Oakland police killing of Parnell Smith on July 15th and police officers like BART officer Tony Pirone having a sense of ownership of city streets or BART trains rather than a sense of accountability to the public. What they end up doing is protecting property rights rather than people. Police in urban areas fail in their primary mission -- for instance, ninety percent of Oakland's murders go unsolved. Laws like three strikes have proven ineffective in their stated goals but effective in discriminating against lower income people of color. A fear of police results from racial profiling and discriminatory laws. On BART on January 1st, it was a white citizen who initially called for law enforcement and described an incident between black males when other witnesses reported that those in the dispute were of various races. From there, known police fear of black males kicked in and Marysol Domenici claimed to have felt that she was going to have to shoot someone that morning. He also describes how BART police stole high-quality video footage of the murder of Oscar Grant from a passenger New Year's Day on the false promise that they would merely copy it and return it to the passenger. Minister Keith Muhammad reports about early efforts to reach out to the federal Justice Department in order to start looking into racial profiling in local police forces as well as to provide a potential back-up should the trial of Johannes Mehserle be moved to a majority white county where he is acquitted as happened with the accused officers who beat Rodney King in Los Angeles. Additionally, community distrust in Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff prosecuting an effective case against Mehserle being a motivation for seeking his recall is discussed. The Town Hall for Justice is seeking reports from victims of police racial profiling and abuse in order to build a case to present to the Justice Department. Towards the end of the audio here, Professor Brown from Merritt Community College makes a point about history being a tool for activists today. Reverend Zachary Kerry stresses the important of small businesses and nationalized health care in reaching economic self-reliance and changing the prison-industrial complex, closing the Town Hall with a prayer.

56-minute special featuring the voices of Climate Camp activists from London and around the globe

Venezuela News Summary (Audio: 11min, 32secs) Venezuela to Transfer Private Media Concessions to Community Media - Venezuelan Government Arrests Suspect in Attack on Globovision - National Assembly Discusses Combating Media Terrorism - VZ Passes New Electoral Law - VZ Increases Funding of Communal Councils and Communes - VZ Takes Over Coffee Manufacturers Suspected of Hoarding and Speculation - VZ Issues First Ecological Cell Phone - VZ to Provide Children with 50,000 Mini Laptops -VZ & Spain Strengthen "Energy Alliance" - VZ Denies Extradition of Basque Nationalist to Spain - VZ Ambassador and Staff Withdrawn from Colombia- VZ's Foreign Minister: Colombia's FARC Weapons Claim a "Dirty Campaign" - VZ Prepares Defense against Potential U.S. Aggression from Colombia - U.S.: Honduras Coup a "Lesson" for Zelaya Not to Follow Venezuela's Path

A few photos and some audio ...

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for August 1st to 7th, 2009

Pissed off dosent come close..

A week after the Sotomayor hearings, Kate Raphael talks with "wise Latina" Anamaria Loya, Executive Director of La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco, about racism, sexism and her expectations for the nation's first Latina Supreme Court Justice. Audio 12 minutes.

Native tribes and environmental groups held a 4-day gathering, a reoccupation of sacred land, near the Grand Canyon, Arizona, calling for protections from proposed uranium mining. In late July, the Department of Interior ordered a 2 year ban on new mining and exploration. Tribal groups say the ban should include some 10 thousand existing mining proposals as well.

Kevin Kumashiro speaks with Teachers for Class War on Free Radio SC about reframing education debates, politics of education and realities of classrooms from grade 2 through teacher training programs, looking at intersections of race and sexuality for youth, as well as Asian American experiences.

On this program: Olympics protest on April 2nd, plus highlights of the Stop Blackwater Conference, Saturday, April 25, 2009. Featured speakers: Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army; Kathy Kelly, founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Mary Shesgren, cofounder of Clearwater Group to Stop Blackwater and music of Anne Feeney.

On this program: Chicago's disorderly conduct ordinance is declared unconstitutional, former death row prisoner, Geraldine Smith speaks about her experience as the first woman sentenced to death in Illinois and Dr. Paul King speaks about the connection between the mercury-laced preservative in vaccines and autism.

On this program, Kim Bobo, author of Wage Theft in America speaks at Chicago Public Library and David Schweikart, author of After Capitalism speaks at Third Unitarian Church in Chicago.

On this program: The opening of Camp Hope and its forum on torture with speakers: Sonia De Santiago, Marc Falkoff, and Flint Taylor. Also, a visit to the Fox Valley Electric Auto Association and a conversion class at Morton Community College.