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This week on Uprising:

* Katrina and Reconstruction: Two Years Later
* Black Agenda Report on Alberto Gonzalez
* Katrina and Prison Injustices
* Empire Notes on Bush’s Vietnam Anaolgy
* Katrina and Women

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Katrina and Reconstruction: Two Years Later

GUESTS: Jeffrey Buchanan, Communications Officer for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial and Co-author of the report “Where did the Katrina money go?” Darryl Malek-Wiley, Environmental Justice Organizer with Sierra Club

On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, organizers and residents of New Orleans are demanding rights …

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GUEST: Sarah Anderson, co-author of “Executive Excess,” Director of the Global Economy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies

According to a new report CEOs “collected as much money from one day on the job as average workers made over the entire year.” Authored by the the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy the report “Executive Excess 2007, The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership,” shows that CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies averaged $10.8 million in pay and associated compensation, including stock options, based on data from 386 of the Fortune 500 companies. That figure for CEO salaries equates to more than 364 times the pay of the average American worker with the average American worker salary coming in at $30,000. Furthermore, …

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GUESTS: Rosana Cruz, co-director of Safe Streets Strong Communities and Robin Templeton, author of the article, “Locked Up in New Orleans,” which is published in the most recent edition of The Nation

On the second anniversary of Katrina, a forty-three year old inmate became the fourth person to die in Louisiana’s Orleans Parish Prison this year. Prison officials claim the man died of an apparent suicide committed in a ten person cell though an autopsy has yet to be performed. Orleans Parish Prison, which was the 8th largest city jail in the nation Pre-Katrina, has yet to regain accreditation lost in the wake of the storm. Two years ago, hundreds of inmates were abandoned in the facility as the flood waters rose. Now, inmates continue to complain …

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GUEST: Jason Kohn, Director of Manda Bala

Mandala Bala is a new documentary about corruption in Brazil. Going beyond Brazil’s sun-drenched beaches this documentary explores the connections between government corruption and the kidnapping industry in Sao Paolo. Through stunning imagery the doc weaves the interviews of kidnap victims, kidnappers, frog farmers, plastic surgeons, police, and even the corrupt politician Jader Barbalho. Barbalho was accused of siphoning millions of dollars for his own use from Sudam, a development program to help the poor in Brazil’s Amazon region, into a complex portrait of crime in Sao Paolo. Mandala Bala was recently named best documentary in Sundance.

Manda Bala will be opening in Los Angeles on August 31st at the Laemmle’s Royal, West Los Angeles and Laemmle’s Playhouse 7, Pasadena. Jason …

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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 Alberto Gonzales. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” – Eugene V. Debs

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GUESTS: Sara K Gould, President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Almetra Franklin, CEO of St. Mary’s Community Action Agency, Louisiana Housing Alliance

When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast, the devastation left in its wake ignited discussions on race and even class in the United States. However, even as women were disproportionately affected by the storm, few experts connected gender to the debate. Many major Katrina related issues such as housing, redevelopment, and environmental degradation have taken their particular toll on low-income women and women of color. When speaking of the right to return and calling on the Federal Government to restore public housing, it is important to note that women-headed households accounted for 88 percent of public housing units lost in New Orleans before the …

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GUEST:Sumaiya Islam, Community Organizer with South Asian Network

Earlier this week, the military-backed government of Bangladesh lifted an overnight curfew that had been imposed on six main cities. The curfew was the government’s response to demonstrations that began on August 20th at Dhaka University by students demanding the removal of army posts on college campuses. The students also protested the failure of the army-backed government which declared a state of emergency on January 12, to clean up Bangladesh’s corrupt politics before holding elections by 2008. Protests spread to other colleges across the country and then onto city streets. Many vendors and slum-dwellers also joined the heated street protests, setting vehicles on fire and damaging buildings and public property. One person was killed and hundreds were wounded, prompting the …

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GUESTS: Kenia, Luke, GLASS, Dianne Cary, co-founder of Live Arts Group

While easier then it was in the past, growing up queer or transgender in Los Angeles is still difficult. Queer and trans youth, according to US Department of Health Statistics are five times more likely to miss school because of feeling unsafe, two times as likely to abuse drugs, and four times as likely to attempt suicide. Queer and trans youth comprise nearly 30 percent of the estimated 5,000 completed youth suicides annually. Equally alarming are the rates of homeless among LGBT trans youth. Over 26% of gay and lesbian youth are forced to leave home because of conflicts with their families over their sexual identities. Helping queer and trans youth in such conditions is the Gay and …