Dec 18 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Reports from Copenhagen
* Black Agenda Report on Climate Reparations
* The Tyranny of Oil – A Conversation with Antonia Juhasz
* Empire Notes on Healthcare: A Legislative Travesty
* Senators Battle Over Healthcare Even as Liberals Give Up
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Dec 18 2009
We’ll dissect the Copenhagen Climate Talks – what came out of them, what didn’t. And we’ll find out why, at a time when death sentences are waning nationwide, California’s killing rate has gone up. Plus, Smart by Nature, a handbook for students, parents, and school staff to put fresh foods into public schools. …
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Dec 18 2009
Earlier this week, Alternet.org broke the news that supporters in California had collected more than enough signatures to qualify a ballot measure on marijuana legalization next year. The group “Tax Cannabis 2010” needed only two months to gather nearly 700,000 signatures in an effort to have the state be the first in the nation to vote on decriminalizing the …
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Dec 18 2009
Iraq recently held an international auction to run its oil fields, awarding contracts to companies like Royal Dutch Shell, and Russia’s Lukoil. As representatives of nearly two hundred nations, and over a hundred thousand climate justice activists wrap up the final day of a 2 week meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark on global warming, the auction winners in Iraq have promised …
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Dec 18 2009
A battle between liberals has broken out in the Senate over healthcare. Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee has come out in recent days urging a no vote on the bill being considered in the Senate saying that it is too geared in favor of insurance companies in it’s current incarnation. He is being joined in his …
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Dec 18 2009
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Climate Reparations.
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Dec 18 2009
“If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.” — Richard Stallman …
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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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