In recent weeks the Maestr@s have spoken with teachers in Kent, Washington who started the year on strike, and teachers in Richmond, CA who started the year with a Strike Authorization Vote. There's also an update on the South Central Farm.

If the US Climate Bill goes unchanged through the Senate, it could make an adequate and fair global deal on climate change impossible. What does the US need to do start playing a leadership role at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen? We chew over the options for enhanced US action on climate change with Daphne Wysham, presenter of Earthbeat Radio and founder and director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network.

Eric Klein of KPFA recorded audio of faculty, students and staff rallying at Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the cuts.

In an interview with Radio H20, former Senior Public Health Medical Officer for CalOSHA Dr. Larry Rose enumerates the threats to public health posed by the Marin Municipal Water District's proposed $100 million desalination plant. 7MB. 15:25

Interview of Ralph Schoenman by Louis LaFortune on Free Radio Santa Cruz, Sept. 18, 2009.

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2eme album :
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The Obama Administration is in the process of creating a national ocean policy. The newly formed Oceans Policy Task Force is responsible for developing that policy, with public input. The task force convened in San Francisco to take west coast comments on what a national oceans policy should include. Environmental groups gathered to oppose offshore oil drilling and the US Navy's plans to conduct weapons and warfare training in Northern California waters.

multi-prize winning documentary
The critically aclaimed documentary "The End Of The Line", which takes a closer and more serious look at overfishing and the state of our oceans, was screened at the Irish Film Institute on September 21st 2009.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday September 21st, 2009.

With just three negotiating weeks left before the critical UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December, we take a behind-the-headlines look at the current status of the talks. What is the majority world vision of a fair deal?

Tune in to live coverage by G-Infinity Radio of the G-20 summit and protests this week in Pittsburgh, Sept. 21-25.

canal cleaning to keep the swans save and the canal clean and beautiful
Tracey O'Neill, founding member of the PORTOBELLO CANAL PROTECTION GROUP, cleaned up a stretch of the canal in Portobello supportet by WILD TIME host/producer Thomas Janak and his girlfriend Nicole.

Since 2001, U.S. presidents have tried to sell their foreign adventures and invasions as exercises in exporting democracy -- as if democracy was a crate of corn, or a barrel of oil... Many apologists for the Afghan war have used the export of democracy argument to justify its invasion and occupation.

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 12th to September 18h 2009

To kick off the new school year on Teachers 4 Class War (Mondays 6-7) we spoke with Jeff Duncan-Andrade once again, about the conditions facing teachers this year and every year in the California School system. Jeff has been a frequent guest on the show, and he's the closing speaker at this year's Teachers 4 Social Justice conference. MP3 format, 1.14.57

Once, Labor Day was a tribute to their power; today it's a cruel joke, reflecting a growing joblessness, and the loss of union influence. Why? Much of this can be traced to the 1992 signing of NAFTA by the then presidents of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. This pact (North American Free Trade Agreement) was a boon to big businesses (at least in the short term), but a bane to workers, especially in the U.S. and Mexico, for it fueled the flight of manufacturers from the U.S. to Mexico in search of cheaper labor. It also allowed U.S. agribusiness to buy up Mexican farmland, throwing hundreds of thousands of Mexican farmers off their lands, and thereby sparking the immigration boom of the last 12-to-15 years.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday September 17th, 2009.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday September 16th, 2009.

On Tuesday, Sept. 1st, around 8:20 in the morning, Jose 'June' Pagan was found hanging in his cell on Death Row at Graterford Prison in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The news sent shock all along the Row, especially among men who knew him, for few sensed that this was coming.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday September 15th, 2009