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March 24, 2008
Published 21 Mar 2008 at 12:11 pm.
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We’ll take a look at the recent protests in Armenia and the just-lifted-state of emergency. Plus, John McCain’s recent Al Qaeda gaffe reveals just how easily the mainstream media have let him off the hook. And progressive populist and everyone’s favorite Texan, Jim Hightower, joins us in studio to discuss his new book, “Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow.”
Weekly Digest - 03/21/08
Published 21 Mar 2008 at 12:02 pm.
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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:
* US Economy Nosedives
* Empire Notes on the Iraq War: Five Years Later
* New Report on Iraq’s Shocking Humanitarian Crisis
* Despite Mounting Evidence to the Contrary, Bush Maintains Success in Iraq
* Nanotech Materials Found in Groceries
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Witnessing Whiteness
Published 21 Mar 2008 at 8:36 am.
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GUEST: Shelly Tochluk, educator with background in psychology, assistant professor of education at Mount St. Mary’s College, author of “Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps toward an antiracist practice and culture”
Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s moving speech on race in America this Tuesday addressed a fundamental issue in US culture that is rarely addressed in a national forum. …
US Economy Nosedives
Published 21 Mar 2008 at 8:36 am.
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GUEST: Eileen Applebaum, labor economist at Rutgers University
More news of the weakening U.S. economy surfaced yesterday as reports indicated slumping factory production and rising unemployment claims. According to new data, factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. economy has continued to shrink for the fourth consecutive month. This has been the worst downturn since …
Gun Rights in the Crosshairs
Published 21 Mar 2008 at 8:36 am.
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GUEST: Ladd Everitt, Director of Communications at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
This week, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving gun control. The highest court in the nation, which has stayed out of the controversial issue for decades, will be ruling on the Second Amendment for the first time since 1939. At …
Radical Day in History - 03/21/08
Published 21 Mar 2008 at 8:36 am.
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… about the death of Pocahantas
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March 21, 2008
Published 21 Mar 2008 at 8:16 am.
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“You don’t have to be part of the world of the lynchers. You do have a choice. You can join the other America. The other America has always been here. From the time the first slave ship arrived. It is the people who fought against slavery. Against injustice. The people who fought for humanity. It was Black and it was white.” — William Paterson, an African American activist
On July 27, 2010 Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan about the latest film he has produced, Peepli Live, about …
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