Jul
14
2008
Uprising celebrates its fifth anniversary! Part 2 of our conversation with Tom Hayden about the Chicago Eight, and dissecting the buzz over the Latino vote in this year’s Presidential elections. …
Jul
14
2008
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GUEST: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator of the Green Party
Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party nomination this weekend at the convention in Chicago. She picked hip hop artist and activist Rosa Clemente as her Vice Presidential running mate. McKinney received 313 out of 532 votes cast on Saturday. She ran against …
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Jul
14
2008
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GUEST: Tom Hayden, former state assembly and senate representative, member of the “Chicago 8,” co-author of several books including Voices of the Chicago Eight
A Generation on Trial
While the Green Party convention was in Chicago this past weekend, the windy city was the site of a much more explosive party convention 40 years ago. …
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Jul
14
2008
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GUEST: Richard Berkowitz, author of “A Personal History: Staying Alive – the Invention of Safe Sex,” David Oliver Cohen, the producer of Sex Positive
Within the midst of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, with large numbers of gay men dying from a new and poorly understood disease, a man by the name of …
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Jul
14
2008
“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.” –- Oscar Wilde …