New America Now: Iranian/Amer reaction, LGBT movies, Goran Bregovic's Balkan band
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, Posted: Jun 19, 2009
New America Now:
- Victor Rodriguez, reporter for Univision KTVW in Tucson, Arizona about fears of immigrant profiling by the police.
- Pari Esfandiari, editor-in-chief irandokht.com an online magazine focused on Iranian women, based in Los Angeles, says Iranian Americans are being reminded of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Sandip Roy talks to:
- Iranian writer Roxanne Varzi says there is a generation gap in the Iranian reaction to their election.
- Randall Kline talks about the wild Balkan musical ride that is Goran Bregovic's Wedding and Funeral Orchestra, in San Francisco with SF Jazz.
Fruit Fly
- Directors HP Mendoza ("Fruit Fly") and Florencia Manovil ("Fiona's Script") talk about their two movies set in the Bay Area and part of the LGBT Film Festival. LGBT Festival
- Monica Ali 's new novel ("In The Kitchen") is out and we look back to an interview about her now famous novel, Brick Lane.
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User Comments
Pete Hudson on Jun 21, 2009 at 15:57:38 said:
Islamofascist Barack Obamai should be making announcements that support, encourage and admire the Iranian revolution. I truly believe he hopes for the revolution's failure. Who cares if we're accused of meddling in Iranian affairs. Does the opinion or comments of that dictatorship matter?
-->Ahmadinejad is nothing more than a puppet of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - Khamenei's front man. The real target is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A ruse election was held to create the illusion of democracy. Iran's dictatorship must be overthrown, and all of the top leadership (clergy, civilian and military) put to death. Then Iran can become a free nation.
The current regime needs to tidy up Evin prison, because they'll soon be temporary guests.
It will serve no purpose to have a reelection. Whoever is president, he/she will still be a stooge that serves as the mouthpiece of Khamenei.
To overthrow the dictatorship, a lot of blood will be shed, but that's necessary.
As the revolution continues the dictatorship will gradually fracture, and more and more of the military and police will join the revolt.
The revolution's success will be democracy's biggest victory in many years. Think about what it would do for Iran, Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and world terrorism, and the blessing for Israel.
Democracies should be working on providing arms to the revolutionaries.
Pete Hudson