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This week on Uprising —

Tens of thousands of students nationwide walkout of their classrooms to protest harsh immigration measures.

Activists and farmers are victorious on extending a global ban on terminator technology.

Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow shares “Dispatches from the Country formerly known as America.”

Plus the Black Commentator on the immigrant uprising

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Students Walkout of Schools Nationwide

GUESTS: 17 year old Carlos Montero, and 16 year old Sergio Mendoza from Grover Cleveland High School, Piero Giunti, 20 year old “veteran” activist, graduated student at …

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Angela Davis is a radical black activist and philosopher. She is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. She was active with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) before the Black Panthers. Davis has been promoting women’s rights and racial justice while pursuing her career as a philosopher and teacher at the University of Santa Cruz and San Francisco University — she achieved tenure at UC Santa Cruz, although Ronald Reagan once swore she would never teach again in the UC system. In recent years she has been active in prison justice issues. Angela Davis spoke on the topic of “women and social justice movements: then, now and tomorrow,” at the …

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GUESTS: 17 year old Carlos Montero, and 16 year old Sergio Mendoza from Grover Cleveland High School, Piero Giunti, 20 year old “veteran” activist, graduated student at John Burrows High school, involved in walkouts, 16 year old, Jose Covarubias from Garden Grove High School, Jesus Cruz, 16 year old from Valley High School in Santa Ana.

This week tens of thousands of students all across the state, and even country, have been walking out of class rooms each day, to protest harsh immigration legislation. The protest even eclipsed the famous student walkout for Chicano rights in 1968. At one point, protesters marched onto the Hollywood Freeway in downtown Los Angeles and two sections of the Harbor Freeway, downtown and in San Pedro, briefly halting traffic. Students in Orange County briefly blocked the Riverside Freeway …

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GUESTS: Carlos Montes, SEIU Local 660, organizer with Latinos Against the War, Jesse Diaz, Professor at UC Riverside, organizer with Coalition Against HR 4437, Alvaro Huerta, Director of Community, Education, and, Advocacy at CHIRLA

President Bush is currently in Cancun, Mexico, at a two-day summit with leaders from Mexico and Canada. The issue of immigration is at the top of his agenda. Meanwhile, immigration issues dominate the news and Capitol Hill. The U.S. Senate is debating a bill to overhaul immigration laws, including a proposal by Bush to allow workers from Mexico and other countries to work legally in the United States for up to six years. None of the prospective bills are particularly progressive. Bush’s proposal has put him at odds with members of his own Republican Party. Protests on the streets of …

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Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator

The Black Commentator is an online political magazine bringing you commentary, analysis and investigation from a black perspective. Today’s commentary is about Latinos on the march.

The Black Commentator is online at www.blackcommentator.com.

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GUESTS: Linda Bonn, Katie Rainge, teachers at Manual Arts High School

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the McCain-Kennedy version of immigration legislation earlier this week, after hundreds of thousands of immigrant communities took to the streets.

This so-called compromise bill is being glowingly hailed as coupling border security measures with allowing millions of undocumented workers to apply for legal work visas and move toward U.S. citizenship, while at the same time offering hundreds of thousands of foreign workers “access to the U.S. workplace.”

But is this so-called compromise bill really a better bill than the Sensenbrenner bill, which was so strongly opposed by last week’s demonstrators?

Under the Judiciary Committee bill, immigrants would have to pay a $1,000 fine and back taxes. But how would back-taxes be calculated for people …

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GUEST: Tom Tomorrow, political cartoonist, and author of “Hell in a Handbasket: Dispatches from the Country Formerly Known as America.”

Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow’s graphic commentaries, “This Modern World,” have appeared for years in the New York Times, US News and World Report, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, The Nation, and many other publications. Now for the first time, her has published a full color compilation of his work in a new book “Hell in a Handbasket: Dispatches from the Country Formerly Known as America.” Tom Tomorrow’s work has been especially crucial in the years after 9/11, when he has looked unflinchingly at the Bush Administration’s drive toward the war on Iraq, and Republican and Democratic Party politics. Michael Moore says of him, …

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GUEST: Robert Jensen, Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, author of several books including “Citizens of the Empire,” and “The Heart of Whiteness : Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege”

“Crash,” a film with interlocking stories set in Los Angeles, took home the Oscar for best picture at the Academy Awards earlier this month. The film has been hailed by many critics as one of the most “intelligent” and “provocative” looks at race relations in recent film history. The Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, even noted that “Crash,” could be helpful for the city’s diverse residents to see their commonalities and move beyond prejudice. However, not all critics agree with the positive assessments of the film. Hip-Hop historian Jeff Chang and …

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GUEST: Rosalina Garcia, 15 year old high school student from Santa Ana, interviewed by KPFK’s Aura Bogado

Over 20,000 students from at least 70 high schools in Southern California walked out of classes yesterday to protest against immigration legislation in the Senate. Students from Los Angeles County high schools marched onto the 101 freeway, and restricting cars to one lane, nearly shut down northbound traffic for several hours. In Orange County, riot-clad police rushed a crowd of student-demonstrators in downtown Santa Ana, and at a separate student protest at Anaheim City Hall. Police also barricaded Santa Ana High School for several hours, and locked down local elementary schools, fearing that student threats for a district-wide protest would become a reality. Aura Bogado spoke with Rosalina Garcia, a 15 year-old …

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GUEST: Lucy Sharvatt, with the Ban Terminator Campaign

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a two week forum being held in Curitiba, Brazil. Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva addressed attendees blaming industrialized nations for the “unsustainable patterns of production and consumption… It is unacceptable that poorer nations continue to suffer the main burden of environmental degradation.” Meanwhile activists celebrated a major victory at the Convention which firmly extended the global moratorium on Terminator technologies or genetically engineered sterile seeds.

For more information, visit www.banterminator.org