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This week on Uprising:

* Obama Addresses Congress: Norman Solomon Analyzes his Economic Plan
* Black Agenda Report on the economy and American manufacturing
* William Kleinknecht on Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street, America
* Empire Notes on Obama and Afghanistan
* Patricia Isasa: Conversation with an Argentine Torture Survivor

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Obama Addresses Congress: Norman Solomon Analyzes his Economic Plan

President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, in what was essentially a state-of-the union talk. Obama justified the stimulus bill he just signed into …

We’ll look at Tuesday’s local elections including the race for city council seats, LA Mayor, and City Controller. Plus a debate on Measure B, the plan to make LA the solar power capital of the US. And, a live report from Washington DC where thousands of young activists are gathering to make their voice heard on climate change. And this week’s Empire Notes.

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” — Woodrow Wilson

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Today is my last chance to ask you to support KPFK and Uprising will end this fund drive with our most popular thank you gift, The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? by BBC film maker Adam Curtis. Through his 3 hour film, The Trap, we will explore the concepts of freedom as expressed by politicians and revolutionaries. Adam Curtis is a British television documentary maker who has during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer, director and narrator. He formerly taught politics at Oxford University but then left for a career in television – he currently works for BBC Current Affairs making programs which express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject. According to The …

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The election of Barack Obama to the presidency, while historic in its breaking of a racial barrier, has also inspired a large number of Americans, young and old, to become politically active. Progressives are warning that Obama is no radical, rather a centrist Democrat who is open to pressure from the left. On issues like the economy, healthcare, and climate change, grassroots activism is necessary to move beyond definitions of liberal and conservative and create real bottom-up change. Today we feature several voices, most notably those of historian Howard Zinn, and analyst Noam Chomsky, on how and why Americans need to exercise their democratic rights more than ever.

A new documentary called American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals, features Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Thomas Frank, Kevin …

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” — Helen Keller

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President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress yesterday, in what was essentially a state-of-the union talk. Obama justified the stimulus bill he just signed into law, and outlined his ideas for reforming the economy through investing in renewable energy technologies, health care reform, and fixing public education. Many reacted to the speech as inspiring hope and confidence in tough times. But not everyone was impressed – Louisiana’s Republican Governor, Bobby Jindal delivered sharp criticism of Obama and his economic stimulus plan in his own speech.

GUEST: Norman Solomon, journalist and author of War Made Easy

Many economists are warning that on the heels of the foreclosure crisis is the credit card crash. The US Senate and Banking Committee recently held hearings on the credit card …

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent that they become the instruments of their own oppression.” – Kumasi, from Crips and Bloods: Made in America

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A 17 year old boy was shot in the head and killed last night in South LA, after getting off a city bus. An LAPD officer told the press that the killer, another boy, was a member of a rival gang, and fled after the shooting. Meanwhile, three unrelated drive-by shootings across Los Angeles happened late last night in less than five hours, leaving one person dead and six wounded. Police are also identifying these attacks as gang-related. For the last thirty years, gang-related deaths in Los Angeles have surpassed epidemic proportions. More than 15 thousand people have been killed, almost all in South Los Angeles. In a brand new highly acclaimed documentary film maker Stacy Peralta takes a historic and intimate look at two of LA’s …