“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.” –- Rosa Luxemburg

* Michael Eric Dyson on the Sean Bell verdict, and Reverend Jeremiah Wright
* Conversation with Dalia Mogahed, co-author of Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Want
* The Supreme Court uphold’s Indiana’s controversial Voter ID law – we’ll find out what it means for the upcoming primary election

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GUEST: Chris Hedges, award winning journalist and writer, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio, author of several books including “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,” and “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,” senior fellow at the Nation Institute and a Lannan Literary fellow

A spate of books in the past several years has resurrected the debate over religion. Authors like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and others, published books critiquing religion and its role in promoting intolerance, fundamentalism, and a host of problems. The books struck a nerve at a time when the simultaneous rise in Christian and Islamic fundamentalist forces in …

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GUEST: Christine Blower, Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers

British teachers took to the streets by the tens of thousands demanding fair pay last Thursday in the country’s first national strike in more than twenty years. The National Union of Teachers, with a membership of 200,000, was joined in solidarity by lecturers and other public sector workers as it mobilized its members in response to salary negotiations that they feel are unfair and amount to a pay cut. In January of this year, the British government offered a 2.45 percent raise which the union rejected on the grounds of not being adequate enough to keep up with rates of inflation. Instead, Europe’s largest teachers union is demanding that wages be raised by 4.1 percent …

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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 about blaming Iraqis.

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* We’ll go to England to speak with the head of the teachers union there, as hundreds of thousands of teachers all over Britain are walking out of their jobs for labor rights.
* And, we’ll have a conversation, live in-studio with Chris Hedges, about his new book, I Don’t Believe in Atheists.
* Plus this week’s Empire Notes with Rahul Mahajan.

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This week on Uprising:

* Where Does Pennsylvania’s Primary Leave Obama and Clinton?
* Empire Notes: Capitalism and the Global Food Crisis
* The Real SPP Conspiracy: Promoting Big Business and Endless War
* Black Agenda Report on Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment
* Conversation with an Immigrant Mother Facing Deportation and her Daughter

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Where Does Pennsylvania’s Primary Leave Obama and Clinton?

GUEST: Suzan Erem, General Manager of “Voices of Central Pennsylvania,” and co-author of “On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the …

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GUEST: Pramod Parajuli, Professor at Portland State University and founding executive director of the Portland International Initiative for Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning

Maoists in Nepal are celebrating a victory that has left everybody including themselves, stunned. The Maoist Communist Party of Nepal won the biggest majority in the the country’s new governing assembly according to an election official yesterday. The election was held in early April with plans for the Assembly to write a new constitution for Nepal. After a decade of armed struggle during which more than 13,000 people died, the Maoist party put down their weapons and signed a peace treaty with the government two years ago as a step toward entering the electoral process. The Maoist Communist Party of Nepal was often …