Mar 13 2009
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. …
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Mar 13 2009
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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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Mar 13 2009
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 …
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Mar 13 2009
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 …
Mar 13 2009
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 …
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Mar 13 2009
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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Mar 13 2009
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 …
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Mar 13 2009
“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 …
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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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