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This week on Uprising —

* New Report on Skyrocketing CEO Pay
* Commentary by Glen Ford on US Perceptions of National Greatness
* Katrina Injustices – Special Report on Race – Part 1
* Empire Notes on Katrina and Race
* Katrina Injustices – Special Report on Race – Part 2

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New Report on Skyrocketing CEO Pay

GUESTS: Chuck Collins, founding co-director of United for a Fair Economy and is now a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Sarah Andersen, Director of the Global Economy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted a sweeping overhaul of its rules governing the disclosure of CEO pay. The reforms were intended to provide greater transparency on compensation paid to principal executive officers, financial officers, and directors. This Labor Day weekend, gas prices are still high, and the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are still bloated, while average wages are slumping. A new report released on Wednesday August 30th by United for a Fair Economy and the Institute for Policy Studies, compares CEO pay to worker pay for defense and oil industries. The report is entitled “Executive Excess 2006: Defense & Oil Executives Cash in on Conflict.” Chuck Collins and Sarah Andersen are two of the co-authors on this report.

Read the entire report online: http://www.faireconomy.org/reports/2006/ExecutiveExcess2006.pdf

For more information, visit www.faireconomy.org, and www.ips-dc.org.

US Perceptions of National Greatness

GUEST: Glen Ford, writer and commentator

Today’s commentary by Glen Ford is on American Perceptions of national greatness.

Katrina Injustices – Special Report on Race – Part 1

GUESTS: Maya Wiley, Founder and Director of the Center for Social Inclusion and a civil rights attorney, Tracie Washington, Director of the NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center and Civil Rights Attorney

On Monday of last week, in an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Professor Michael Eric Dyson accused President and Laura Bush of being “clueless patricians” in the context of Katrina and the suffering of Black Americans. An AP-IPSOS poll earlier this month showed that 57% of Americans fear that the country is ill-prepared to protect them from natural disasters. That’s up from 44% in the immediate aftermath of Katrina. In addition, the poll showed that people of color, and those who were less wealthy and less educated were more worried about becoming victims of a natural disaster, compared with wealthier, more educated whites. Many reporters from the mainstream corporate media saw first hand the disproportionate effects of government negligence on Black Americans. Yet, scouring the news a year later, reveals that many in the mainstream media are backpedaling from any assertions that racism was at the root of the tragedy. On part one of our special report on Katrina and race we take a look today at effects on the African American Community.

Empire Notes on Empire Notes on Katrina and Race

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Empire Notes on Katrina and Race.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

Katrina Injustices – Special Report on Race – Part 2

GUESTS: Brenda Dardar-Robichaux, Principal Chief of the United Houma Nation, and Cecilia Munoz, Vice President of The National Council of La Raza

One year ago, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated many communities in the states of Louisana and Mississippi. Among those deeply impacted were the small Houma Indian settlements in lower Plaquemines, lower St. Bernard, and lower Jefferson parishes. The population of these Indian settlements, some 3500 tribal citizens, was hit hard by the storm. Over one thousand people were left homeless, their homes completely destroyed by wind and water. Meanwhile, several hundred thousand Latinos and immigrants living in Louisana and the Gulf region also suffered. Many of them did not receive adequate information or assistance from the federal government or private agencies. Monolingual relief workers made life and death decisions regarding access to aid, housing, medical care and other necessities, often denying benefits to deserving and eligible individuals, or exposing them to immigration enforcement. We continue the second part of our special report on race and Katrina with a look at how Native American, and Latino and immigrant communities were affected by the storm, and how they have been recovering.

For more information, visit www.unitedhoumanation.org, and www.nclr.org.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

“Can we really afford to proceed as a nation without addressing how race, poverty, and class gang-up on too many of our citizens and snatch them from their futures? Unless we answer this question, we are in jeopardy of becoming a morally and politically lost nation bled dry of our humanity by disasters of nature and soul.” — Michael Eric Dyson from his new book, “Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster”