Check out Carlos Santana a musician who needs no further introduction. Uprising was generously given two pair of tickets for our listeners today to see Carlos Santa live at the Hollywood Bowl, Saturday October 1st at 7pm. Congratulations to winners Stephanie and Jeremy! We featured Santana’s song “Maria Maria” today on Uprising.

More about Carlos Santana at www.santana.com and for tickets to SAturay’s show visit www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/performance-detail.cfm?id=4781

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Uprising’s Music Curator is Chris Bennett

Five years ago, millions of bad loans that banks had peddled—in order to feed the profitable securities market—began to fail and foreclosures began climbing. Washington ignored it then and continues to ignore it in all but name today. Millions of people lost their homes and millions more will follow. But amid all the chatter about deficits and coming presidential elections, it’s easy to forget this crisis continues apace. One in eight mortgages are past due; one in five black and Latino borrowers are believed to be at the brink of foreclosure.

The consequences stretch past the families that get kicked out. The systemic fraud that drove up prices and flipped homeowners through large refinances has also left the market with a glut of ridiculously overvalued, foreclosed properties upon which banks are now squatting. The glut has spawned many new crises, including driving down the value of everyone else’s home and …

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Tourists were stranded without rides to the airport and traffic jams stretched for miles in Athens, Greece yesterday while a 24 hour public transportation strike was held in protest of further austerity measures. Work stoppages were carried out by a range of professionals, including tax officials, and riot police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of a 1000 protestors outside the Parliament. Once again, Greece is said to be on the brink of financial collapse. After receiving a bailout of over 100 billion Euros from the European Union a little over a year ago, a second bailout is now in the works. To receive loan installments, or tranches, the Greek government has been continually required to cut public spending and raise taxes, leading to a series of mass demonstrations and strikes …

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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, LA Times columnist and novelist Héctor Tobar, has just published his newest book, The Barbarian Nurseries. Set in the wealthy suburbs of Orange County and the gritty barrios of Los Angeles, The Barbarian Nurseries is the story of a young undocumented Mexican maid, Araceli, and her liberal employers, Maureen and Scott Torres-Thompson, and their three children. A marital dispute set off by the family’s financial woes leads to an inadvertent abandonment by the Torres-Thompsons of their two young sons who are left in the care of the surly Araceli. In an attempt to find the children’s grandfather Araceli takes the boys on a journey via Southern California public transit, across county lines, into a drama politicized by the media and legal system. Ultimately Araceli is accused of kidnapping …

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According to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing firm, August saw a 33% jump from July in the number of initial mortgage default notices filed nationwide. It was a surprising increase and the highest jump since the housing bubble burst four years ago. Bank of America initiated the most foreclosures, hitting homeowners in California the hardest with a 96% increase across the state from the previous month. The Sacramento Bee reports that around 2,420 default notices were filed in Sacramento County in August alone, 670 of those by Bank of America. A BofA spokeswoman told the Sacramento Bee the increase has long been expected. She said the slow-down in activity over the last year was mainly due to reviews of processes in the wake of the robo-signing scandal. Banks are signaling they believe they …

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According to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing firm, August saw a 33% jump from July in the number of initial mortgage default notices filed nationwide. It was a surprising increase and the highest jump since the housing bubble burst four years ago. Bank of America initiated the most foreclosures, hitting homeowners in California the hardest with a 96% increase across the state from the previous month. The Sacramento Bee reports that around 2,420 default notices were filed in Sacramento County in August alone, 670 of those by Bank of America. A BofA spokeswoman told the Sacramento Bee the increase has long been expected. She said the slow-down in activity over the last year was mainly due to reviews of processes in the wake of the robo-signing scandal. Banks are signaling they believe they have cleaned-up their act and are ready to resume shedding distressed homeowners from their books. As a response to this, a statewide coalition named “Refund California,” has formed as a means, “to make Wall Street banks pay for destroying jobs and neighborhoods with their greedy, irresponsible and predatory business practices.” The group is organizing events across California in order to express their complaints at Wall Street. Next week Refund California will initiate several actions in Los Angeles. Next Tuesday and Wednesday, protestors will visit a Wall Street executive’s house to demand, “Its time for Wall Street Banks to Pay.” Following that, on Thursday, this group will be conducting a march in Los Angeles comprised of over 1000 homeowners.

“Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.” — Naomi Klein

We’ll hear part 2 of our two part interview with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and LA Times columnist Hector Tobar on his new book Barbarian Nurseries. And, how local Los Angelinos are organizing against predatory banks. Plus, the debt crisis in Greece and what it means for the economies of the US and EU. Plus this week’s Black Agenda Report.

Check out Cole Downing a blues musician from LA. We featured his song “When Did You Leave Heaven?” today on Uprising.

Here is in a video for his song, “Same Old Blues”

More about Cole Downing at www.reverbnation.com/thecoledowningband

If you know of an independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send an email to mail@uprisingradio.org.

Uprising’s Music Curator is Chris Bennett