Dec 20 2005
Bush Domestic Spying Program Revealed
GUESTS: Sherman Austin, political activist targeted by the government, Nancy Talanian, Director of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee
The New York Times reported last Friday on a government program of spying on US residents. It had known the story for over a year, before the last Presidential election. The report has created a furor in the …
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Dec 19 2005
Responding to popular demand, Uprising has begun podcasting our Weekly Edition.
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Dec 19 2005
WTO Meeting Ends in “Hong Kong Declaration”
GUEST: Benedict Southworth, Director of World Development Movement, based in Britain
Staying up all night, World Trade Organization delegates made an agreement at the 6th WTO ministerial wrapped up. The agreement is called the Hong Kong Declaration. According to this morning’s New York Times, it’s a “surprisingly broad document calling for changes in everything from European …
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Dec 16 2005
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Evo Morales Looks Poised to Win Bolivia Elections
Kathryn Ledebur, Director of the Andean Information Network, Nick Buxton, writer and activist in La Paz
On Sunday, December 18th, Bolivians go to the polls to elect …
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Dec 16 2005
Evo Morales Looks Poised to Win Bolivia Elections
Kathryn Ledebur, Director of the Andean Information Network, Nick Buxton, writer and activist in La Paz
On Sunday, December 18th, Bolivians will go to the polls to elect a new President. History could be made as indigenous activist, Evo Morales is the leading candidate with roughly 34% of the vote. Ex-President Jorge Quiroga is …
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Dec 15 2005
I was at the supermarket yesterday, and as is the nauseating custom at this time of the year, there was Christmas music playing over the loud speakers. While I was able to tune out “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” I soon found myself nearly retching when Band Aid’s “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” began playing.
I remember Bob Geldof’s paternalistic fervor 21 years ago, joined by the likes of George Michael, Boy George, Simon …
Dec 15 2005
Pacifica/FSRN Reports from WTO in Hong Kong
PRODUCED BY: Monica Lopez, Aaron Glantz, Ngoc Nguyen, Dante Toza of Free Speech Radio News
The Hong Kong session of the Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization (WTO) ended on Thursday with a declaration urging all the WTO members to advance the Doha Round trade talks. The declaration said, “Open, free, fair and growing trade reduces …
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Dec 14 2005
Pacifica/FSRN Reports from WTO in Hong Kong
PRODUCED BY: Monica Lopez, Aaron Glantz, Ngoc Nguyen, Dante Toza
Trade Ministers at the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong have failed to make any headway in the deadlock over contentious farm subsidies paid out by the US and Europe to its farmers and agribusinesses. Most of the developing world, including Brazil and India have demanded these …
Dec 13 2005
Anti-Muslim Riots in Australia
GUEST: Kuranda Seyit, Director of Forum on Australia’s Islamic Relations (FAIR)
Last Sunday a mob of about 5000 white youths, many drunk and wrapped in Australian flags, attacked people they believed to be of Middle Eastern origin, at a beach in Sydney, Australia. Hundreds of Lebanese and other Middle Eastern youths responded a day later, and now media …
Dec 12 2005
Race and Gender in the Orginal King Kong Film
GUEST: Gail Dines, Prof of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College in Boston
As movie fans prepare for this week’s release of Peter Jackson’s epic King Kong film, we go back about 70 years to the original film that gained a cult following. First appearing in 1933, King Kong was written for the …
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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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