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May 1 - 5, 2006
Monday, May 1
May 1st - Great American Boycott 2006
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Today's immigration-related demonstrations reach across California and the rest of the country. Observers in LA and around the nation discuss the day's events and impact on schools, businesses, and traffic.
Guests included: KPCC reporters Frank Stoltze, Adolfo Guzman Lopez, Rachael Myrow, and Jordan Davis. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Ira Melman, Media Director for the Federation of American Immigration Reform. Renan "El Cucuy" Almendarez Coello, a deejay with Univision Radio's KSCA-FM La Nueva 101.9. Lourdes Garcia Navarro, NPR correspondent in Mexico City. Leslie Barristein, staff writer for San Diego Union Tribune. Tom Honig, editor-in-chief Santa Cruz Sentinel. Ellen Barry, national correspondent for the LA Times. Gilbert Bailon, news editor for Al Dia, Spanish language newspaper operated by the Dallas Morning News. Lucio Guerrero, reporter for the Chicago Sun Times.
Continued, May 1st - Great American Boycott 2006
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Tuesday, May 2
A Special "Ask the Chief" with Town Hall Los Angeles
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Patt Morrison interviews Los Angeles police Chief at a special Town Hall Los Angeles meeting from the City Club.
Wednesday, May 3
Juvenile Justice in Crises
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Severe overcrowding, lack of adequate personnel, and security lapse... these are just some of the problems facing the juvenile justice system throughout California. Patt and her guests Noam Levey, reporter for the LA Times, Peter Greenwood, former head of RAND's Criminal Justice Program, Elizabeth Siggins, Chief of Juvenile Justice Policy, CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and Sara Norman of the Prison Law Office, talk about the challenges to the system and reforms that some feel would cause change for the better.
Sebastian Junger - A Death in Belmont
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Against the backdrop of a tumultuous era in American history, Sebastian Junger's A Death in Belmont, gives a detailed account of the events surrounding a brutal murder in a Massachusetts suburb. He joins Patt Morrison to discuss race, homicide and justice, and why this story hit particularly close to home for him.
Thursday, May 4
UC Executive Compensation
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A report released this week by California's State Auditor Elaine Howle, highlights the compensation irregularities in the publicly-funded University of California system. The state report is the latest in a series of probes highlighting irregularities in how the 10-campus system rewards its leaders. The audit drew sharp responses from legislators and even brought up the debate over the compensation for CSU's Barry Munitz who teaches one class at a salary of $163,000. In a publicly funded university system, what is fair compensation for talent? Patt Morrison is joined by Elaine Howle, California State Auditor, Paul Schwartz, Spokesman for the University of California's President's Office, and Linnea Bernard McCord, Associate Professor of Business Law at the Garziadio School of Business Management at Pepperdine University.
Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century
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Is U.S. foreign policy achieving our long-held strategic aim to create a more peaceful and democratic world? Or is it actually undermining it? In her latest book, Friendly Fire (PublicAffairs), author Julia E. Sweig argues that for the last 60 years America has sown the seeds of its own decline in the eyes of the world. Sweig joins host Patt Morrison to talk about her new book and to share her views on how U.S. relations with other countries have devolved, and why.
The Loh Life
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Friday, May 5
7 dollars for Smokes?
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In many states a pack of cigarettes costs $2.60, but California smokers may soon pay that just in taxes. Coalition for a Healthy California collected over 1 million signatures that should qualify a measure for the November ballot that would raise cigarette taxes from $.87 to $2.60. The proposed tax would go to fund tobacco prevention and health care costs, but is it fair to make smokers front the bill for these programs and pay $7 for a pack of smokes? Maria Robles, campaign spokesperson for Coalition for a Healthy California and Jacob Sullum, senior editor from Reason Magazine talk to Patt about it.
Dedication of CARMA Radio Telescope Array in Inyo Mountains
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Today marks the official dedication of the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA) facility. A joint venture of Caltech, UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Maryland, the project involves moving the six existing 10-meter telescopes at Caltech's Owen's Valley Radio Observatory millimeter-wave array, along with the nine 6-meter telescopes at the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array to the new Cedar Flat location, about 13 miles east of Big Pine. The facility will be used to observe molecular gas and dust in planets, star-forming clouds, planet-forming disks around other stars, as well as nearby and distant galaxies. Anneila Sargent, Rosen Professor of Astronomy at Caltech and CARMA director, joins Patt Morrison to give us a preview of the day's event.
AMEC Atacama Cosmology Telescope
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AMEC, the international project management and engineering company, is near completion of the most sophisticated and sensitive telescope to this day. The telescope, known as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, will be able to further investigations on how the universe has evolved since the Big Bang. By detecting remote microwaves the telescope will then procure a series of images that will enable scientists to study how the structure of the universe has changed over time. David Halliday, VP of special projects speaks with Patt Morrison about the pioneering telescope and the scientific marvels it will unveil.
Denise Hamilton, Queen of L.A. Noir
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In her novels, Denise Hamilton uses her experience as a reporter for the LA Times covering the break-up of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, youth movements in Japan, and exploding Asian communities in Los Angeles. The latest thriller, Prisoner of Memory, finds her street-smart heroine, Eve Diamond, drawn to L.A.'s vibrant Russian immigrant community, where telling truth from fiction is a dangerous game.
Cinco de Mayo
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Some call it Gringo de Mayo. Others, Cinco de Drinko. The actual holiday, Cinco de Mayo, was born on May 5, 1862, when a small Mexican army in the town of Pueblo defeated heavily armed French soldiers. In the 1960's, the Chicano movement was in full swing, and Mexican Americans wanted another reason to celebrate their culture besides September 16, which is Mexico's Independence Day. From there the holiday evolved, in part as an excuse for beer companies to sell mass quantities of cerveza. Gustavo Arellano, Staff Writer for the OC Weekly, joins host Patt Morrison to commemorate the holiday and talk about why it's celebrated more in the U.S. than in Mexico.
Cinco de Mayo Celebrations:
Cinco de Mayo Celebration and Health Fair
5/5 - 5/7 - 10am-6pm
MacArthur Park
2230 W 6th St
Wilshire Blvd
LA, Ca. 90057
310 669-9922
Long Beach Symphony - Cinco de Mayo
5/06: 8:00PM
Price: $25-$40
Museum of Latin American Art
628 Alamitos Ave.
Long Beach, CA, 90802
562 437-1689
Children's Cultural Festival
5/07: 12:00PM-5:00PM
Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 E. Ocean Blvd.
Long Beach, CA, 90803
562 439-2119
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