Deporting Arrested Illegal Immigrants Before Trial; Grocery Strike Deja Vu?; Nuclear Power To Combat Global Warming; Near is More; Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier
Deporting Arrested Illegal Immigrants Before Trial
Gang members who have been arrested, and are then found to be in the Southland illegally, will now face deportation before they go to trial. L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, and L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley, are working more closely with federal immigration officials. The partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement marks a departure for local law enforcement which generally keeps federal officials at arm's length. Joining Larry to discuss the new policy are Angelica Salas of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) and L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley.
Grocery Strike Deja Vu?
In 2003 Southland grocery workers struck for over four months and it's possible it could be deja vu all over again. Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons officials announced they will once again lock out Southland workers at all three chains if clerks at any one launch a strike. Larry talks with Rick Icaza, President, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 770 and Edena Tessler, spokeswoman for the supermarket chains about this latest labor battle.
Nuclear Power To Combat Global Warming
As the threat of global warming looms larger, CO2 emission-free nuclear power is being given a second look as an energy alternative in California. Republican State Assemblyman Chuck Devore has proposed legislation that would lift the moratorium on building nuclear power plants in California. Also joining the conversation with Larry is Karl Zichella of the Sierra Club, who argues that global warming can be mitigated without resorting to new nuclear power plants in California.
Near is More
In his new book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Times Books), author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, challenges the prevailing economic view that "more is better" and urges us to move beyond growth as the paramount economic ideal. McKibben proposes we pursue prosperity in a more local direction, with cities, suburbs, and regions producing more of what they consume like food, energy and even culture, on a local level. The author joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new economic vision.
Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer and how does one stop? In his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells the riveting story of how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered his homeland of Sierra Leone which had been rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Ishmael joins Larry to share his firsthand account of how his life was altered by war and how he emerged from the chaos.