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This week on Uprising:

* Afghanistan Marja Offensive Aimed At Convincing US Public
* Banks Manage to Sidestep Credit Card Reform
* Black Agenda Report on Police Brutality in New York
* Extreme Right Wing Attempts Takeover of Republican Party

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Afghanistan Marja Offensive Aimed At Convincing US Public

An Afghan flag fluttered symbolically over the small town of Marja in Southern Afghanistan on Thursday, signifying that the rural area is now officially out of the Taliban’s hands and under the control of the central government. On February 12th, 15,000 international troops, including …

We’ll examine the US’s latest offensive in Marja, Afghanistan – our guest Gareth Porter thinks it’s meant more to convince Americans to support the war than have strategic value. And, Max Blumenthal reports back from the Annual CPAC conference where he was attacked by a right wing mob. Plus, new credit card regulations aimed at protecting consumers end up being undermined by banks even before implementation.

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

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In one of the first acts of non-violent resistance of the civil rights movement, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1st 1955. It was an act that launched a year long successful boycott of the bus system, led by Martin Luther King Jr, and was among the earliest victories of a movement to establish the civil rights of African Americans. Today we wrap our pledge drive by celebrating black history, spending the hour hearing the voices of the people intimately involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and other similar events in American history and Black history.

The voices of people like Martin Luther King Jr, Ralph Abernathy, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Betty Shabazz, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, …

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Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Angela Y. Davis, studied philosophy at Brandeis University, one of only three black students in her freshman class. She went on to live in France and Germany where she became involved in radical movements, eventually returning to the United States. Back in the US Angela Davis joined the Communist Party and in 1969 became an acting assistant professor in the philosophy department at UCLA here in Southern California. Then Governor Ronald Reagan urged the UC Board of Regents to fire her from her job because of her membership in the Communist Party. She was later rehired after legal action.

Angela Davis has been intimately involved in the prison abolition movement since her own experience in prison, which we’ll hear about later. She recently gave an address at an event for a …

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” — Frederick Douglass

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Newly unearthed images by the legendary Cuban photographer Alberto Korda show Fidel Castro and Che Guevara playing golf and fishing in military uniform and riding on the back of a vehicle heavily armed. The photos are to be auctioned off for thousands of dollars. Alberto Korda is best known for taking a photo of Argentine doctor-turned-revolutionary Che Guevara, that has become the most reproduced photo in history. The iconic image of Che is seen on countless posters, T-shirts, murals, water bottles, children’s clothing, and even beer. While some struggle to bind Che to his historical context, others celebrate his transcendence through Korda’s image, appreciating him as a symbol of revolution. In their groundbreaking new documentary, “Chevolution”, film makers Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez explore the history of Korda’s image by which many of us know Che today, …

“Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.” — Che Guevara

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Shop ‘Til You Drop: The Crisis of ConsumerismA new study by scientists at the University of Chicago is looking for a correlation between childhood obesity and television advertising. The federally funded study is the first attempt to investigate whether the barrage of television advertising of food influences children’s eating habits. The same researchers previously found that 98% of food ads viewed by children from 2-11 years of age, were for foods high in fat, sugar, and salt. There is growing concern that the influence of advertising on adults and children has a negative impact in terms of physical, mental, and financial health. Today we spend the hour looking at how corporate marketing over the past two decades has created a society whose children grow up to be better consumers than citizens, and whose adults are …

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.” — John Berger