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This week on Uprising:

* Cuba and Fidel, One Year Later
* Immigrant Woman Seeks Sanctuary in Church
* Scandal Over Food Imports from China Continues
* Remembering the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act
* Empire Notes on Ryan Crocker’s Recent Comments on Iraq

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Cuba and Fidel, One Year Later

GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College and author of the book, “Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures”

On Thursday July 26th, acting Cuban President …

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GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, author of “Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop” and Professor of Theology, English, and African American Studies at Georgetown University

The topic of hip hop as a means of social and political expression is something we have covered often on Uprising. Ever since it’s inception in the 1970s in New York’s West Bronx, Hip Hop has been an artistic force that has spread rapidly throughout the country and is now unequivocally a global phenomenon, from Palestine to Cuba and everywhere in between. Hip Hop has many faces from commercial to underground, hedonistic to conscious. Hip Hop has always been controversial and a subject of contention between genders and generations. To tackle these controversies head-on is my next guest, a favorite here on Uprising – Michael Eric Dyson.

Michael …

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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about Barack Obama. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

“Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.” – Frederick Douglass

Listen to This Radical Day in History

… about The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 .

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GUEST: Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director of The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and one of the primary architects of the Mckinney Act

This past Sunday was the 20th anniversary of the Stewart B McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. Named after the Republican Congressman Stewart B McKinney, the act emphasized emergency measures, transitional measures and long-term solutions to combat the homeless crisis. At the time, it was viewed as the first step in a larger effort to eradicate homelessness, but subsequent efforts never materialized. McKinney died of AIDS in 1987 and was a major force on Capitol Hill in advocating for the homeless – he spent the night with homeless residents on the streets of Washington, D.C. soon before his death. The National Law Center on …

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GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College and author of the book, “Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures”

The “Granma International” newspaper of Cuba reported yesterday that Raul Castro would give the public address at the annual celebration of the July 26th Moncada barrack assaults of 1953. This major annual Cuban event has usually been presided over by Fidel Castro. In fact, Fidel Castro’s last public appearance was exactly a year ago today for last year’s Moncada celebration. Five days after that appearance, Fidel Castro underwent surgery for an undisclosed medical condition, and, in an unprecedented move, temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul. Fidel has missed every major Cuban event since his initial surgery including …

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GUEST: “Flor,” a Filipino nanny who faces deportation, interviewed by KPFK reporter, Leilani Albano

Since 1996, more than 4,000 Filipinos have been deported from the United States. Following the 9/11 attacks, the rate of deportations has dramatically increased. More recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has systematically targeted immigrant communities across the country through mass raids that have resulted in Filipino immigrants being deported alongside other immigrants. As a result, the number of deportations have jumped from 400 a year, to 800 a year, making Filipinos the most deported of all Asian ethnicities. A nanny who goes by the name of “Flor” is among those who faces removal from the US. Upon her arrival to the East Coast, Flor had started her job …