Dec 15 2006
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This week on Uprising —
* Iran Hosts a Conference Denying the Holocaust
* A critique of Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto
* New York Adopts a Ban on Transfats
* Death of a Dictator – a Conversation with poet, Francisco Letelier
* This week’s …
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Dec 15 2006
GUEST: Dr. Trita Parsi, author of the forthcoming book “Treacherous Triangle – The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States.”
This week the Iranian capital, Tehran, hosted a two day conference on the Holocaust, called “International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust.” Conference participants included former Louisiana …
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Dec 15 2006
GUESTS: Joe Blackburn and Tina Ta, residents of El Monte, organizers and activists, Jane Williams, Jane Williams, Chair of the Sierra Club Toxics Task Force and a member of the Sierra Club National Air Committee
The South Coast Air Quality Management District in November 2006 ordered an El Monte metal parts manufacturer to take immediate …
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Dec 15 2006
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is on Racial Profiling. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Dec 15 2006
GUESTS: Sumaiya Islam, South Asian Network, Liz Sunwoo with MIWON
This Monday is International Migrants Day. On December 4th 2000, the UN General Assembly proclaimed December 18th International Migrants Day. It was on that same day in 1990 that the Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant …
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GUEST: Marta Moreno, Executive Director of El Comite de Longmont in Colorado, serving Denver County, Carolyn Slauson, Program Director of El Comite
On Tuesday, federal officials raided six meatpacking facilities across the country arresting 1,282 workers on suspicion of being undocumented and possessing stolen identities of U.S. citizens. The raid was carried out by …
Dec 15 2006
“Environmental racism is racial discrimination in environmental policymaking. It is racial discrimination in the enforcement of regulations and laws. It is racial disccrimination in the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste disposal and the siting of polluting industries. It is racial discrimination in the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in communities of color. And, it is racial discrimination in the history of excluding people of color from …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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