On again, off again: Troy Davis...and war and its effects of people and land

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After 20 years on Georgia's death row and several stays of execution Troy Davis has one more week of life. Or does he? The justice system has refused his appeals and set his execution date four times. Is the fourth time the last?

Veterans tell their stories and the Veterans Health Research Institute advises troops and their families on how to welcome home a loved one from the wars. Then, the Presidio in San Francisco, a former military base, is now the Presidio Trust, a mixed use federal land trust with unique and imaginative ways of transforming what was once a nerve center for war into a nerve center for innovation and people-centered communities.

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Dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico and Theater and the Arts in Kabul

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An update from author activist Dahr Jamail who just returned from the disaster zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Despite what we are being told in the media, all is not coming right in the Gulf -- in fact, it has been turned into a vast toxic lake. 
Then Kayhan Irani, artivista and playwright with the Theater of the Oppressed recently returned from Kabul in Afghanistan where she conducted and facilitated workshops for Afghan actors and artists.

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HuffPost Green article on staph infections, hepatitis, and other diseases from our contaminated oceans

Immanuel Wallerstein and Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation at the 2010 US Social Forum

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A segment with two "national treasures" and elders of the U.S., Immanuel Wallerstein and Grace Lee Boggs. Both have spent their lives, from different directions, moving the U.S. forward into a more real democracy, a place that takes care of its people, educates its youth, brings We The People together into a community that celebrates our human similarites rather than separates us into unitary working stiffs along the lines of empire which is to divide and conquer.
To link to the full presentation (2 hours): http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/31

Presented by the Boggs Center - boggscenter.org and filmed by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin of Moving Images - movingimages.org.

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Obama, Stop Building Nuclear Weapons

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Tanemori San speaks about the vengeance in his heart...that eventually dissipated.

Straight talk about the ongoing expansion of - and the billions spent on -- our nuclear weapons arsenal...despite treaties, test bans, and Obama's hopeful words that talk the talk but do not walk the walk.
Outside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California on August 6th, hibakusha or survivor of Hiroshima's holocaust, Takashi Tanemori tells his story.
Show includes one-on-one interviews with Normal Solomon, native American Patricia St. Onge, and others.
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Read the articles:
1) to End the False Security of Nuclear Weapons
2) Rationalizing the Bombing of Hiroshima: Confronting a Mindset. Published in Counterpunch, August 5, 2010.

US Senate Aide - and Others - Contend, “The Bombing of Hiroshima was Right”

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 A brief update with Dahr Jamail from the Gulf of Mexico. 
Then, on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dr. Joseph Gerson joins us with his perspective as a co-convener of the May 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review.
We talk also with Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs - Communities Against a Radioactive Environments - near the Lawrence Livermore Lab in California.


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