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This week on Uprising – A 1 Hour Special:

* Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields

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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields

A city dreamed up from a dusty border mountain pass by promoters of the NAFTA, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, now typifies the failure of the so-called “war on drugs.” Directly across the border from El Paso, Texas, the 1.3 million person metropolis has garnered a gritty reputation in recent years. It’s a place where drug cartels …

Sonali Kolhatkar and Gabriel San Roman, the Uprising Crew, will be on vacation from 05/24 to 06/04. Tune in Monday the 24th through Friday the 28th from 8 to 9 am for a special week-long series on immigration in the United States, global migration, movements for justice for migrants, and more, with special guest host Hamid Khan, Executive Director of the South Asian Network. Hamid will bring analysts, activists, and organizers to the air-waves to help us understand the economic and political pressures that drive immigration, and how communities are responding.

Uprising will be back to regular programming on Monday June 7th 2010.

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:

* Govt Agency Didn’t Require Permits for BP Rig Despite Warnings
* New Film by Oscar Nominee Laura Poitras Features Al Qaeda’s Abu Jandal
* Black Agenda Report on Arizona’s Immigration Law
* Mosque Terror Attack in Florida Ignored by Media

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Govt Agency Didn’t Require Permits for BP Rig Despite Warnings

Thursday marked 30 days since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, pumping the equivalent of the Exxon-Valdez spill into Gulf Coast waters every three days. BP is saying the mile-long tube inserted into the ruptured …

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Nine people demonstrating in support of the DREAM Act were arrested yesterday after blocking traffic for several hours in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Two hundred immigrant rights protesters marched in a circle on Wilshire boulevard as motorists were rerouted by the police. The action was the second this week in support of the federal legislation that would provide undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as minors the opportunity to pursue legal status through higher education or service in the military. On Monday, five immigrants, three of them undocumented, donned caps and gowns as they sat down and refused to leave the Tucson, Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Calling for the passage of the DREAM Act on the anniversary of the Brown v. the …

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” — Frederick Buechner

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The war in Afghanistan reached a grim milestone on Tuesday. A roadside bomb in Kabul brought the toll of American dead to over 1,000. After taking seven years to reach 500 deaths, the war claimed the second 500 American lives in less than two years. Now, award-winning film maker Laura Poitras, has made a new documentary, The Oath. The film details the lives of two brothers-in-law who served as Osama bin Laden’s trusted aides in Afghanistan before the September 11 attacks. The first is a man whose name is well known to most Americans – Salim Hamdan, bin Laden’s personal driver who was captured shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2001 and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As Hamdan’s military lawyers navigate the tribunal system in Hamdan v. …

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Homeboy Industries, the acclaimed institution that has worked to transform the lives of gang members in East Los Angeles for more than two decades, was forced into massive layoffs last week. The organization founded by Boyle Heights Jesuit Priest Father Gregory Boyle to combat gang violence through job placement has fallen short of maintaining its operating budget and as a result three hundred employees, including senior staff and administrators, found themselves suddenly out of work. The independent non-profit has been adversely affected by the long-standing economic recession as private donations and less local government funding has come at a time when unemployment has increased demand for its services. Despite the financial hardships, Homeboy Industries is not shutting down. One hundred people will continue to be employed at the …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Arizona.

Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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The White Night Riots

Back in the day on May 21st, 1979 demonstrators took to the streets of San Francisco in what would be known as the White Night riots. The raucous events were spurred in part by a verdict returned in the controversial trial of Daniel James White. The former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors stood accused of the murders of city mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the city board elected. The jury in the case convicted White of lesser charges finding him guilty only of “involuntary manslaughter.” When the news hit the streets, crowds began converging in San Francisco’s Castro district and angrily marched on city hall. It was there that they were met by police and …

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On Sunday May 9th, the ground-breaking African American actress and singer Lena Horne died at the age of 92. Known for paving the way for blacks in film, she was among the first African Americans to sign a long-term contract with a major studio, MGM. Lena Horne was signed up as a member of the NAACP as a toddler by her fierce and active grandmother Cora. She went on to be a strong campaigner for civil rights and her voice is preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives. At her funeral last Friday in New York, former New York Mayor David Dinkins called Lena Horne, “one of our greatest treasures.” Another speaker at her funeral, a former Tuskeegee airman, said “[she] used her celebrity to fight the indignities of the time.”

Last year a biography of Lena Horne …