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March 16, 2009
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 1:53 pm.
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We’ll speak with arms expert Frida Berrigan on the stimulus package that has been ignored – the $700 billion Pentagon budget; and, a report back from Pink Friday, when teachers across California protested cut-backs in the classroom. Plus, in a sharp about-turn from the Bush-era the Justice Department announced it’s dropping the definition “Enemy Combatant.” We’ll speak with two law experts about the consequences.
Weekly Digest - 03/13/09
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 12:58 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:
* Obama is Hit With Accusations of Socialism
* Empire Notes on the End on Capitalism’s Remedy
* Congress Takes Up Food Safety
* Black Agenda Report on the Economic “N-word”
* Women’s History Month Special: A Conversation With Betita Martinez
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El Salvador Gears Up for Elections
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 11:23 am.
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El Salvador is gearing up for a Presidential election this Sunday that could catapult a leader of the leftist FMLN party into power for the first time. Mauricio Funes, a former correspondent for CNN en Español, is a relatively new recruit of the FMLN and leads the conservative ARENA party’s candidate, Rodrigo Avila, in polls. Plagued by severe …
Toxic Tubs: A New Report about Carcinogens in Baby Bath Products
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 11:23 am.
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Often marked as “safe and gentle”, children’s bath products are found to be anything but by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. This nonprofit coalition of environmental groups is the first to document the widespread contamination of children’s products with two known carcinogens: Formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane. None of the products tested by the coalition list formaldehyde …
High School Students Take Up Guerilla Gardening
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 11:22 am.
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In a practice known as guerrilla gardening, groups of environmentalists, armed with seed bombs, seek out neglected plots of land in urban sprawl areas, and transform them into green spaces. Operating in a legally gray area, this form of environmental activism is simple and provocative. In recent years, guerrilla gardening has become a worldwide phenomenon with environmentalists …
Black Agenda Report on the Economic ‘N’ Word
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 11:20 am.
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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the Economic N-word.
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Subversive Historian - 03/13/09
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 11:19 am.
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The Butler Act
Back in the day on March 13th, 1925 the Tennessee State Legislature passed the Butler Act into law. Authored by John Washington Butler, a Tennessee farmer, the first section of the statute provided that it be unlawful for any teacher in a publicly funded educational institution to teach any scientific theory that invalidated the creation …
March 13, 2009
Published 13 Mar 2009 at 9:47 am.
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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle, 1855
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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