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Both Salwa Salem's and Ghada Karmi's childhoods were violently disrupted by what Palestinians call al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe -- the involuntary mass exodus of nearly three quarters of the Palestinian population when the State of Israel was established in 1948. Marking the destruction of their country, this event would define their lives as ones of exile. In their respective memoirs, The Wind in My Hair and In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Salwa Salem -- who dictated her memoirs wh...

Actor and activist Danny Glover joins us to talk about his new film "Bamako." Set in Mali, the plot revolves around a trial that pits the people of Bamako against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. We're also joined by Bamako's co-executive producer, Joslyn Barnes....

Perhaps no musical act has paid a bigger price for speaking out against war than the Dixie Chicks, the biggest selling female music group of all time and the big winners at the Grammy Awards on Sunday. They have been largely blacklisted since the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. That's when the group’s lead singer - Natalie Maines - said the group was against the war and ashamed that the President Bush is from Texas. Barbara Kopple joins us to talk about her new documentary, “S...

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The hypocrisy of U.S. immigration policy is underscored by a little-known reality of Mexican migrants in the border city of San Diego. An estimated 2,000 undocumented Mexicans live in tiny shacks in the rocky, rattlesnake-invested, brush-covered canyons abutting high-end San Diego communities that boast multi-million dollar mansions....

Las Visitadoras de Vargas Llosa explican al comisario Maigret que el pasado de las mismas acredita la competencia de éstas para lograr avances en las estrategias del grupo que coordina la señora Maigret para combatir la conspiración de los medios de comunicación para trastocar los conceptos de “ciudadano”, de “Estado Nación” y de organización multilateral en la actualidad....

Each year in the last week of January, as Australia’s summer holiday season draws to a close, tens of thousands of young people attend Big Day Out (BDO) rock festivals in capital cities across the continent. The popular outdoor event, which is one of the country’s longest-running and most successful rock events, featuring local and international bands, is generally ignored by politicians....

The syndicated columnist and best-selling author Molly Ivins passed away last night following a long bout with breast cancer. Her weekly column appeared in over 400 newspapers making her the most widely read progressive columnist in the country....

Deepa Mehta’s film Water has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It’s the third in a trilogy following Fire and Earth. It looks at a colony of widows set in a sacred city whose lives are upturned by a new widow, a child, in their midst. Mehta’s films have caused movie theatres to be burnt down in India by angry mobs and they have also won awards for the issues she addresses with the fiercest of passions. NAM editor and host of UpFront Sandip Roy spoke with Mehta when th...

Young Asian Pacific Islanders invloved as part of the Project Ride crew, the only nonprofit working with the young API community involved in the Import Scene to counter the targeting of youth within the import car scene by big corporate tobacco companies, holds the first Import car event free of tobacco sponsorship. It is held in conjunction with JDM Thereoy a major event promoter within the Import Scene. They are also the first major event promoter within the Import tuner scene to sign a ple...