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… about Thurgood Marshall.

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“Our visions begin with our desires” — Audre Lourde

“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

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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 Michael Eric Dyson.

Michael Eric Dyson is a Professor of Theology, English, and …

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford

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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 eve of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, organizers and residents of New Orleans are demanding rights for displaced residents. A two-day, “Bring Our People Home,” event organized by the New Orleans Survivor Council as well as other organizations will call for government restoration of public housing so that many families can finally return home. The commemorative event is just one sign of many that New Orleans residents and Katrina victims feel that the pace of rebuilding the Gulf Coast is too slow. Critics of recovery efforts assail the federal policies of the past two years …

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GUEST: Raquel Rubio Goldsmith, Coordinator of the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona

Nearly 200 hundred bodies have been recovered this year on the Arizona-Mexico border according to Tuscon based human rights group, Derechos Humanos. This most recent figure brings the total number of recorded deaths on the border to 5,000 since the group began collecting data. As the number of immigrant men, women and children dying on the border gains national media attention, the Department of Homeland Security has announced a series of reforms in order to “address border security and immigration challenges.” Despite increasing evidence that suggests such strategies directly correlate with border deaths, Homeland Security continues to affirm its intentions to stay the course on these policies. The department is planning to …

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GUEST: Bob Gnaizda, Greenlining instutite

Consumer advocates have called for a moratorium on home foreclosures, as they warn that California will face many more next year. The reason cited for the projected increase of foreclosures is that homeowners are expected to be hit with payment increases brought on by subprime loans and risky mortgages. The call for a moratorium comes on the heels of The Mortgage Bankers Association estimation that more than 46,000 California homes were in foreclosure in March and another 76,732 mortgage loans were seriously delinquent. Over two million families are facing foreclosure in the next two years. California will become ground zero for the bottoming out of the housing market as there will be two and half times more foreclosures in the state than anywhere else. …

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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 commentary is on Bush’s Vietnam Analogy

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

Listen to This Radical Day in History

… about The Death of Emmett Till.

Produced by Radio Rootz.

Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org.