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This week on Uprising:

* No End in Sight for Guantanamo
* Black Agenda Report on the Jena Six
* Haiti: An Unbroken Agony
* Empire Notes on Protests in Burma
* Iraq’s Continuing Displacement Crises

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No End in Sight for Guantanamo

GUEST: Karen J. Greenberg, Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University, and editor of various books such “The Torture Papers”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently said that he would like to see the closure of the U.S. detention center in …

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” — Anne Frank

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GUEST: Karen J. Greenberg, Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University, and editor of various books such “The Torture Papers.”

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that he would like to see the closure of the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo. According to Secretary Gates, the Bush Administration and The Pentagon could not agree on where detainees would be held if not at the naval base in Cuba. Meanwhile, as the presidential campaigns heat up for 2008, the debate on Guantanamo has taken prominence once more. For many Republican candidates, supporting the detention center has become a way to demonstrate commitment to the so-called “war on terror.” GOP candidate Mitt Romney said in a presidential debate last May that he would …

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GUEST: Alanis Obomsawin, First Nations Documentary Filmmaker

In a new documentary called “Gene Boy Came Home”, acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin turns her camera on the ugliness of war through the eyes of one survivor. When he was 15, Eugene Benedict left the Odanak reserve in Canada to find work in the United States. At 17, he accepted a dare, enlisted in the Marines and served a traumatic two years in Vietnam. The film captures his journey back home and captures the living history of an often untold story. Alanis Omobsawin has made more than 30 documentaries on issues affecting Aboriginal people over the past 40 years. Gene Boy Come Home will screen as part of this year’s National Geographic All Roads Film Festival in LA this Sunday.

Gene …

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GUESTS:Laura Cambron and Miguel Paredes, with The LA Circle

Community organizations, artists, and fair trade vendors are joining together this Sunday to celebrate the City of Los Angeles and its residents. The invitation is extended to all communities in the greater L.A. area to the “Come Together Festival” – to bring together various communities who otherwise live and organize in isolation from one another. The Festival seeks to begin to build bridges by celebrating and sharing the diversity and richness that makes up the city. Besides celebrating multi-ethnic music, poetry, dance and art, the Festival will also address social justice and community empowerment

The Come Together Festival
Sunday, September 30, 2-9 pm
LA Crash Mansion
1024 S Grand Avenue (at W. Olympic)

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/lacometogetherfestival or call 323-204-6722

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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 White Man’s Wars. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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“They won’t break my spirit. I won’t let them do that. They can do what they will with me, but I won’t concede my spirit.” — Political Prisoner Bobby Sands

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GUEST:Susan Helper, professor of regional economic development at Case Western University in Ohio

A two-day national strike against General Motors Corporation came to an end early Wednesday morning after the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement. Though full details of the new contract have not been made available, the two sides are said to have agreed on a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, or VEBA health care trust fund. Three former UAW International Executive Board Members published a letter in the New York Times to UAW officers cautioning against any VEBA proposals. The letter stated that “such a proposal, if ratified as part of a new collective agreement would represent a radical shift in the traditions of our union.” Workers could return to the picket line if they …

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GUEST:Sherman Austin, activist, musician

Former political prisoner Sherman Austin’s new record, “Silence is Defeat: The Album the FBI Doesn’t Want You to Hear” will be released this Saturday, September 29 in LA. Sherman first gained national attention in 2002 when the FBI ransacked his home and eventually held him in 24-hour lock down in 2002 in connection with internet activity. After a maze of interrogations and court proceedings from LA to New York, Sherman served one year in federal detention, mostly in Arizona.

Sherman Austin’s Record Release:
Saturday, September 29th, 5 p.m.
El Centro de Accion Popular
1042 N. Richmond Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033

For more information, visit www.raisethefirst.com and www.shermanaustinmusic.com