As gang-related activities increase in the Sonoma Valley, new prevention efforts are being launched to help parents redirect affected kids.

 

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For details about the upcoming seminar series, click here . You can hear Jill Royce describe the full series in this audio clip:

 

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To learn about the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force in Santa Rosa, click here .

California's schools may not be teaching civics and government as much as they once did, but the state's educators are more deeply engaged in these subjects than ever.

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  David Sanchez, a Kindergarten teacher from Santa Maria  is president of the 340,000 member California Teachers Association.

 

 

A traveling half-scale replica of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial from

Washington D.C. is visiting Santa Rosa for a few days,

eliciting memories, mourning and emotion.

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"The Wall That Heals" is a project of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

The United Veterans Council of Sonoma County took the lead inbringing the wall to Santa Rosa.

Below is an aerial view of the full size Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.

While some media observers worry about the consolidation of ownership, Michael Parenti sees the narrowing of viewpoints that are able to get media exposure as something even more dangerous.

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Cable television hosts Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are sometiems cited as alternatives to the mainstream media, but Parenti says they should not be --and do not expect to be -- taken that seriously.

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Michael Parenti is an internationally known historian and author, who has taught at universities and written books about politics and the media. His Aug. 27 lecture at Sonoma State University will be on "Diversity and Orthodoxy in the News Media, part of the Project Censored Modern Media Censorship Lecture series.

His most recent book is Contrary Notions.

A sampling of Michael Parenti's essays is available on his website.

Or you can click here to read "Imperialism 101," the opening chapter from his book, Against Empire.