Jul 15 2008
We’ll look at Barack Obama’s position on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the newly revealed video of a teenager being interrogated at Guantanamo. Plus, healthcare workers in California take on their parent union SEIU, and Monica Palacios joins us in studio to talk about her latest performance, “Greetings From a Queer Senorita.” …
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Jul 15 2008
GUESTS: Roberto Lovato, writer with New American Media, frequent contributor to The Nation, Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association and the executive director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have spent the past week or so courting potential Latino voters ahead of November’s election. The two …
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Jul 15 2008
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
Yesterday we played you part 1 of a conversation I recently had with activist and writer Tom Hayden, about the tumultuous sixties, and the seminal moment when …
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Jul 15 2008
Five years ago to this day Uprising was born. On July 15, 2003, we broadcast the very first edition of this program featuring, among other things, an interview with Alfred McCoy about the revised edition of his historic book, The Politics of Heroin. It had been over a year since I began working …
Jul 15 2008
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.” -– Albert Einstein …
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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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