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This week on Uprising:

In the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s death, we’ll hear an hour-long special interview of the late former Pakistani Prime Minister and responses by analyst and activist, Pervez Hoodbhoy.

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Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday December 27th. Bhutto was at a political rally when she was killed at close range by gunfire while riding in a vehicle which was then shattered by a suicide bomber. Pakistan has been plunged into nation-wide violent protests in response to the assassination. Backed by …

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

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This week on Uprising:

A holiday special one-hour program on Global Warming and solutions for change. Journalist and writer George Monbiot will explain why we absolutely have to reduce our carbon emissions 90% by the year 2030 if the planet is to survive, and what we can do about it.

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Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning

GUEST: George Monbiot, weekly columnist for the Guardian Newspaper, author of “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”

In the aftermath of the Bali Climate Conference, which world leaders are …

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GUEST: Bob Norman, columnist for New Times, Broward/Palm Beach in Florida

Last week, a Miami federal court declared a mistrial in the case of six men accused of plotting to wage war against the United States by blowing up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Jurors acquitted one man and failed to reach verdicts for the other six. The men, known as the Liberty City Seven, named for the region of Miami where they gathered in a warehouse, were arrested in 2006. All the defendants are black men in their 20s and 30s, and after their high-profile arrest last year, were painted as part of a dangerous homegrown terror cell that wanted to join forces with al-Qaida. A new trial is set to begin on January 7th. …

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GUESTS: Floppy, Guin, Anne, members of Everybody’s Kitchen project

A group of activists have been traveling the country in a school bus, cooking food and feeding people in communities from New Orleans to Los Angeles. They call themselves Everybody’s Kitchen and base their work on the belief that no one should ever go hungry. The bus is fitted with all the amenities of a professional commercial kitchen and also provides transportation across the country and a floor to sleep on. Everybody’s Kitchen recently arrived in Los Angeles where they are stationed temporarily near Skid Row. They show up every week day 4 pm on the corner of 6th and Gladys, handing out fresh cooked food to anyone who wants it.

NOTE: Everybody’s Kitchen is operating out of a location …

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GUESTS: Lalo Alcaraz and Estaban Zul, hosts of Pocho Hour of Power

This Friday December 21st, one of KPFK’s most popular programs, The Pocho Hour of Power, will be hosting The Pocho Night of Power, in an event hosted by Culture Clash. The event will feature local musicians and bands such as Mezklah, Aztlan Nation and Ollin.

Pocho Night of Power is on December 21st at 110 S. Garfield, 90022
Doors open at 9 pm. Students and Seniors Pre-sale tickets for $8
$10 at the door

Tickets are available at Teocitli, Imix Books, One Stop Culture, Naui Ollin, Antigua Cafe and ADI.

The Uprising crew, Sonali Kolhatkar and Gabriel San Roman, will be on vacation until Friday January 4th. Until then, stay tuned to the Uprising hour for new and archival programming.

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” — Oscar Wilde

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GUEST: Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen

In the aftermath of the Bali Climate Conference, which world leaders are calling, “historic,” the US appears to have destroyed all hopes for international agreement on ending global warming. Even worse than the outcome of the Kyoto talks, 190 nations agreed that while something had to be done about the planet heating up, no targets or dates were set. In fact, all that was agreed upon was that further talks are needed over the next two years in order to come to agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 – in two years George W. Bush will be out of power. However, since the meetings in Kyoto ten years ago, all countries have only increased their …

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GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus

Last week, the New Jersey State legislature voted to pave the way for the state to become the first in four decades to repeal the death penalty. Governor John Corzine, long in favor of abolishing capital punishment, is expected in to sign into law the replacement of the death sentence with life without parole next month. Opponents of capital punishment view the recent vote as just the latest indicator that the US public is beginning to turn away from death penalty. As the number of death sentences and executions continue to reduce nationwide, anti-death penalty activists hope that other states follow New Jersey’s suit. Currently, thirty-six states make use of the death penalty as a form of …

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GUEST: Marc Becker, Latin American Historian

The United States is on the verge of losing one of its last military outposts in Latin America. Manta Airport in Ecuador is currently on a ten-year lease to the US, signed in 1999, and has been used to combat the drug trade and immigration, as well as for counterinsurgency operations. When Ecuador’s current president, Rafael Correa, was campaigning in 2006, he promised to make the contract renewal with the U.S. contingent on a reciprocal agreement allowing Ecuador to build or station their military on an air base in Miami. Predictably the US did not look too favorably on this. Manta Airport is expected to be leased to China instead. Meanwhile, Correa joined five other Latin American leaders last week in signing …