Sierra Club Vote On Immigration and the Environment; AB 48: Is It Time To Raise The Minimum Wage In California?; The Camp Delta Report; Lucky Child
Sierra Club Vote On Immigration and the Environment
Guest host Patt Morrison discusses the strife within the Sierra Club about the issue of immigration. Should the Sierra Club remain neutral on the issue of immigration? Or, is immigration a threat to the environment? Patt talks with Jonathan Ela, with Groundswell Sierra, an organization of Sierra Club members who formed to keep the Club neutral on immigration, and Robert Van De Hoek, A conservation biologist who serves on the executive committees for both the Angeles and California chapters of the Sierra Club.
AB 48: Is It Time To Raise The Minimum Wage In California?
State Assemblywoman Sally Lieber has introduced a bill, AB 48, which seeks to raise the minimum wage in California from $6.75 and hour to $7.25 an hour in July of 2006. Guest host Patt Morrison talks with Assemblywoman Leiber, Adrian Moore, Vice President of Research for the Reason Foundation, Chereesse Thymes, Executive Director of the California Partnership for Working Families, and Jot Condie, Presdient and CEO of the California Restaurant Association about what impact such an increase would have economically for minimum wage earners and for California businesses.
The Camp Delta Report
The Department of Defense has just released a report summarizing some of the crucial information it has gained about Al Qaeda from the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Some are arguing that the volume and importance of this information justifies the decision by the U.S. to restrict the prisoners’ legal rights. Others continue to argue that the prisoners, detained at what the Department of Defense calls “Camp Delta,” are being illegally held and inhumanely treated. Patt Morrison talks with Mario Mancuso, special counsel to the DOD general counsel, Chapman University School of Law professor John Eastman and Wendy Patten, US Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch.
Lucky Child
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the takeover of Cambodia by Pol Pot, and the genocide of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge. Loung Ung was five years old, from a middle class family, in 1975. In the ensuing chaos of Pol Pot’s rule, she was orphaned and taught to be a child soldier. When the Khmer Rouge was defeated in 1979, her brother made the dangerous journey to Thailand, before emigrating to the United States. He could only take one sister with him, ten-year-old Loung Ung, the Lucky Child. Loung Ung joins guest Host Patt Morrison to talk about her new book, LUCKY CHILD: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind.