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Linda Leaks: Mayor Gray Is Balancing the Budget on Backs of the Poor

LISTEN TO LINDA LEAKS [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 PT. 2 – Q & A [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “The mayor is pitting one set of low income people against another … Continue reading

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D.C. Emancipation Day

LISTEN TO ANISE JENKINS [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 April 16, 1862, nine months before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln freed more than 3,000 slaves in the District of Columbia. Saturday – DC Emancipation … Continue reading

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Voices from The National Conference for Media Reform in Boston: Shirley Kressel, Muckraker

LISTEN TO SHIRLEY KRESSELL [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Shirley Kressel was unable to find work as a landscape architect in Boston due to her activism. While Kessel asked too many questions for her chosen profession, … Continue reading

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The Voice of DC Cab Drivers, April 10, 2011

LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF DC CAB DRIVERS [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “It’s just amazing to me that a lot of people that are not involved [with the taxicab industry] can sit and decide on … Continue reading

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“The 41 for 51”: 41 Arrested In Push to Make D.C. the 51st State

LISTEN TO MAYOR VINCE GRAY [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 It clearly isn’t going to come from simply being nice or being complacent or being apathetic. – Mayor Vincent Gray The District of Columbia lacks statehood, … Continue reading

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April 26 Special Election: At-Large D.C. Council Candidates Alan Page and Dorothy Douglas In Their Own Words

LISTEN TO ALAN PAGE [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3   LISTEN TO DOROTHY DOUGLAS [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 In fourteen days, the April 26 will take place for special election for … Continue reading

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Voices from The National Conference for Media Reform in Boston: Jonathan Simon’s Open Letter Calls On Journalists to Cover the Republicans’ Ongoing Rigging of Elections

LISTEN TO JONATHAN SIMON [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 In an open letter, Jonathan Simon, executive director of the Election Defense Alliance, asked that “every journalist and Media Reformer here in Boston” stop turning a blind … Continue reading

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April 26 Special Election: At-Large D.C. Council Candidates Vincent Orange and Joshua Lopez In Their Own Words

LISTEN TO JOSHUA LOPEZ [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 LISTEN TO VINCENT ORANGE [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 April 26, just eighteen days from now, is the special election for the D.C. … Continue reading

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“The Voice of DC Cab Drivers” Returns to the Air

LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF DC CAB DRIVERS [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “The Voice of DC Cab Drivers” can be heard Sundays from 7:00 – 8:00 PM on WUST 1120 AM (or at wust1120.com or … Continue reading

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Homeland (In)Security: Ward 8 Residents Question Benefit of DHS’s $3.4 Billion Headquarters

LISTEN TO VOICES FROM DC JOBS OR ELSE [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 If you don’t have economic democracy, you can’t have political democracy. – Donald Temple, civil rights attorney Unemployment in D.C.’s Ward 8 is … Continue reading

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