* Law Enforcement officials speak out against California’s death penalty, calling for a moratorium
* A conversation with author Thomas DeWolf about his family’s slave trading past
* HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigns – we’ll find out why

The Los Angeles Valley College Democracy Matters Club, CALPIRG and Campus Progress will present “The Best Government Corporate Money Can Buy” with Gore Vidal, who will be interviewed by KPFK’s Sonali Kolhatkar, on Wednesday, April 2 from 4:30-6 pm in Monarch Hall. Students will give a presentation on how publicly-funded elections could cut corruption in politics. There will also be a Q&A session with Gore Vidal. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call Andrea Barrera at (818) 606-1159.

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GUEST: Deepa Fernandes, author of “Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration”

Congress is currently considering a controversial immigration proposal known as the Save America through Verification and Enforcement Act. Introduced by the vehemently anti-immigrant Congressman Tom Tancredo and Democratic Representative Heath Shuler last year, the SAVE act is seen by many critics as a strictly deportation bill. If passed into law, the legislation would mandate that all employers use verification databases to check the immigration status of their employees. Also, local police authorities would be required to assist in federal immigration enforcement. Along the border, the SAVE act calls for more patrol agents while creating a financial incentive for those who report anyone seen assisting undocumented immigrants. Critics of the proposed legislation argue that …

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GUEST: Kathy Gannon, the Associated Press correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1986-2005, author of “I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror – 18 Years Inside Afghanistan”

Yesterday two British marines, part of NATO’s force, were killed in an explosion in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. President Bush is in Europe this week to persuade his allies in NATO to pledge more troops to Afghanistan. France plans to send 1000 more troops, while Britain has pledged 800. CIA Director General Michael Hayden recently announced that Al Qaeda has established a “safe haven” in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghanistan border over the past 18 months, training new recruits that “look Western.” While the battle in Basra and Baghdad rage on, the US war in Afghanistan has …

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GUEST: Jim Naureckas, Editor of Extra! FAIR’s Magazine, Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy

Fighting escalated in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Friday when a U.S. airstrike killed five civilians according to Iraqi police and hospital sources. The U.S. military has claimed that four armed militants were killed in the attack. In addressing the violence in Basra, President Bush called the clashes “a defining moment in the history of Iraq,” as well as a “necessary part of the development of a free society.” As the battles continue in Basra between the Iraqi government’s forces and Shite militias affiliated with Moqtada Al Sadr, critics in the United States have taken the media to task for its coverage. Institute for Public Accuracy’s Norman …

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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’s commentary is on Basra.

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This week on Uprising:

* The Future of Pakistan
* Empire Notes on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright
* California Decision on the Electric Car Mandate
* Black Agenda Report on Race in America
* New Report on Children Sentenced for Life in US Prisons

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The Future of Pakistan

GUEST: Ali Ahsan, lawyer and son of leading dissident Aitzaz Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association; Farhat Haq, Pakistani American teaching at Monmouth College, and expert on political Islam, women and Islam, and contemporary Pakistani Politics

Pakistani …

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GUEST: Robert R Bryan, lead counsel for Mumia Abu Jamal

A three judge panel with the third circuit US Court of Appeals in Philadelphia refused to reinstate the death penalty for political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal yesterday. While this is a major victory for Abu-Jamal and his supporters, his murder conviction in the 1981 shooting death of Police office Daniel Faulkner was left intact. The state now has six months to hold a new sentencing hearing for Abu-Jamal. If a new hearing is not held, the life imprisonment sentence stands. The legal appeal was based on the argument that racism by the judge and prosecutors in the original trial played a negative role Abu Jamal’s conviction by a nearly all-white jury. Abu Jamal’s lawyers were hoping for …