Election Preview; All Saints At Risk Of Losing Its Tax Exempt Status; Riots In France
Election Preview
Larry Mantle talks with Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chicano Studies, UC Irvine, and author of Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity and Politics in Los Angeles, Alfred Balitzer, Professor of Government and Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, and Tony Perry, LA Times San Diego bureau chief about tomorrow's special election. Larry is also joined by actor Warren Beatty to discuss the election as well.
All Saints At Risk Of Losing Its Tax Exempt Status
Larry Mantle talks with Ed Bacon, the Rector of All Saints Church, George Regas, former pastor of All Saints, longtime activist with Interfaith Communities United for Peace and Justice, and Ed McCaffery, Professor of Law and Politics at USC and visiting Professor of Law and Economics at Cal Tech about the IRS’s warning to the church that it might lose its tax exempt status due to an anti-war sermon.
Riots In France
Riots beginning 12 days ago in poor immigrant-populated communities outside Paris have now spread into the city and to other parts of France. They began when two teenagers were electrocuted while hiding from police. Groups of young Muslim men, mostly children of immigrants from former French Arab and African colonies, are largely responsible. French leaders and police have blamed the riots on organized criminal gangs, and perhaps Islamic radicals. Rioters and some scholars point to the French government for neglecting the country’s poor suburban communities, to the French police for treating Arab and African immigrants unfairly, and to the French people for their reluctance to integrate non-natives into French society. Larry talks with Marc Burleigh, journalist for Agence France Presse, and Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University.