presentación de libro 24

For more than four decades, the world-renowned author, activist and scholar Angela Davis has been one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black liberation movement, Davis' work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements across several generations. She is a leading advocate for prison abolition, a position informed by her own experience as a fugitive on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list more than 40 years ago.

After hundreds of complaints and 13 deaths, the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into how the nation's largest automaker, General Motors, may have covered up deadly safety defects in its compact cars. Six GM models made from 2003 to 2007 suddenly turned off while being driven — leaving drivers with no engine power, no power steering, no breaks and no air bags. For 11 years, GM reportedly treated the defect as a matter of customer satisfaction, not safety. Federal regulators also failed to take action, declining to investigate despite a flood of complaints. GM finally announced a massive recall of some 1.6 million vehicles last month.

Dr. Tom Schneider will explain the growing problem of preventable medical errors, and what's being done to curb this epidemic.

Ian Millhiser, editor of Think Progress Justice in Washington, D.C., will take us on a journey into.

Author Cliff Schecter will tell us how income inequality is poisoning our democracy.

Author and American Prospect contributing editor Paul Waldman will explain why success in big business doesn't translate into success in politics.

During the original trial, Bob Autobee supported a death sentence for Edward Montour who killed his son, a prison guard in 2002. But the Colorado Supreme Court threw out Montour's sentence in 2007 because it was imposed by a judge, not a jury as is required. A decade later, Autobee has now changed his mind. In the new murder trial that begins today, he wants to make a victim's statement to the jury asking them not to impose the death penalty — but the judge in the case has barred him from doing so.

FSTV hosts an exclusive interview with the star and filmmaker of the film, Cafeteria Man. Conducted by FSTV's friend, Gavin Dahl from KGNU Alternative Radio this interview discusses their film, the impact it's made to school food programs nation wide, and the hope for change. We hope you enjoy!

Russian President Vladimir Putin is rebuffing warnings from the U.S. and European Union as the crisis in Ukraine threatens one of the worst east-west standoffs since the Cold War. The pro-Russian Crimean Parliament has voted to hold a referendum on splitting off from Ukraine and joining Russia. But the vote's legitimacy has been called into question after the installation of a pro-Russian government in Crimea just last week.