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* Howard Zinn gives a passionate address in Los Angeles on the topic of “Just War,” the history of war, resistence to war, and civil disobedience.
* Empire Notes by Rahul Mahajan and The Black Commentator with Glen Ford

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Empire Notes on Iraq’s reconstruction

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s …

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The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
GUEST: Jonathan Kozol, author of “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America,” previous book, “Savage Inequalities”

Despite the gains made after the 1954 desegregation ruling Brown Versus Board of Education, schools today are more segregated than ever. My guest Jonathan Kozol, well known for his books about the American educational system and children’s rights, such as Savage Inequalities, has a new book out. It’s called “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.” Kozol visited 60 schools in 11 states over a five-year period and found that schools in the US are racially segregated, and that wealthy white suburbanites receive far better facilities and resources for their children than poor children of color. Kozol believes that …

As KPFK’s fund drive comes to a close, Uprising would like to thank you for your financial and moral support. Next week, as a show our appreciation, Uprising will be presenting a two hour special: The Mexican OC: Triumphs and Contributions of Orange County’s Mexican Communities; a two act play dramatized for radio, and offered as a thank you gift, will be played in its entirety on Monday and Tuesday July 3rd and 4th from 8 to 9 am.

From July 5th – July 7th, stay tuned for special two-hour editions of The Morning Review from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m.

Sonali will be back live on July 10th.

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Galloway and Shiva

George Galloway is a Member of the British Parliament and affiliated with the Respect party. He is one of the most outspoken anti-war elected representatives in the English speaking world. During the 90s, Galloway with the fought a long campaign against sanctions on Iraq, and was an adamant opponent of the Gulf War and the military action in Afghanistan.

He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 in he wake of his comments on the Iraq war, which included a television interview in which he accused Tony Blair and George Bush of acting “like wolves” in invading Iraq.

Last May George Galloway testified in front of the US Senate defending himself against charges of corruption. He used the opportunity to put the US government on blast for the war on …

“You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Do you know what surprised me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. In the end the sword is always beaten by the spirit.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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Why We Fight and Sir! No Sir!

The Grand Prize winner at last year’s Sundance Festival was a political documentary on US foreign policy called “Why We Fight.” Film maker Eugene Jarecki brought back President Eisenhower’s farewell address where he warned Americans against the “military industrial complex.” Jarecki examines the state of the current “military-industrial complex” – now a 500 billion dollar business that corporations like Lockheed & Martin and Halliburton make millions on. Why We Fight also features the father of a September 11th 2001 victim, and the two fighter pilots who dropped the first bombs onto Baghdad on March 19th 2003. He interviews Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Senator John McCain, Dan Rather, as well as Eisenhower’s son and granddaughter. Jarecki’s earlier film was the …

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Marcos and Galeano: Latin America, Politics, and Resistance

More than a decade after launching an armed rebellion that captivated millions across the world, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, or EZLN launched their new campaign earlier this year. They have been calling it “La Otra Campana,” or “The Other Campaign.” The Other Campaign is an attempt to mobilize the millions of disenfranchised indigenous and working class people in Mexico to abandon the country’s political parties and take matters into their own hands. Marcos, the charismatic Subcommandante of the EZLN began a journey through all 31 states and the federal district of Mexico City this year.

[Adapted from John Gibler's "On the Trail of 'The Other Campaign'", Jan 18, 2006.]

FSRN’s Aura Bogado had an exclusive interview with Marcos this March in Vera Cruz, which …

Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.

Audio Stream | Podcast | Mp3 Download

This week on Uprising —

* After the recent Gitmo suicides, former US Army Muslim Chaplain James Yee describes the mistreatment of detainees that he witnessed.
* Independent film maker Jill Friedberg addresses the popular struggles of teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico as they battle on-going police brutality.
* Investigative reporter Sasha Ambramsky on his new book, “Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House.”
* Empire Notes by Rahul Mahajan on the plan to give amnesty to Iraqi insurgents
* The Black Commentator on the “imperialist mind”.

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From War to Earth Democracy

Chris Hedges is a Lecturer at Princeton University – he is the Ferris Professor of Journalism there. In a 2003 commencement speech at Rockford College, Illinois, Hedges denounced the US war on Iraq only to be booed off stage and forcibly escorted by security officers off of the campus, taken to his hotel room to pack his belongings, and put on a bus to leave town. Afterwords, his then employer, The New York Times, gave him the choice of staying true to his beliefs or conforming to the official story – he chose the former.

Having worked as a war correspondent for many media outlets for fifteen years, Chris Hedges has seen war, and its effects upon those who wage it, at close range. His reports from the front lines bear …