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This week on Uprising —

* The Taliban are Back – Crisis in Afghanistan
* Commentary by Glen Ford on 60th anniversary of Nuremberg
* National Latino Congreso Convenes
* Empire Notes on “War on Terror” – Part 1
* Challenging the Right on Campus

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The Taliban are Back – Crisis in Afghanistan

GUEST: Emmanuel Reinert, Executive Director of SENLIS Council

It has been nearly five years since the US launched Operation Enduring Freedom claiming retaliation for the attacks on 9/11. But has the war in Afghanistan been a success as many Americans are led to believe? Two influential international think tanks last week released reports on the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. The International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) reported that a vital opportunity was lost when the West failed to carry out adequate reconstruction work after the 2001 war in Afghanistan. Another think tank, the Senlis Council also claims that Western forces in Afghanistan are caught in a cycle of violence against the Taliban which is sparking poverty and starvation on a grand scale. The violence is turning the average Afghan against British and US forces, leading some to claim their lives were better under Taliban rule. According to the Senlis report, the Taliban now “have a strong grip on the Southern half of the country.”

For more information, visit www.senliscouncil.net.

Read the entire report here:
http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/publications/014_publication

Commentary by Glen Ford on 60th anniversary of Nuremberg

GUEST: Glen Ford, Black Agenda Radio (formerly with The Black Commentator)

Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator, formerly with the Black Commentator. He is now affiliated with ‘The Black Agenda Report.’ This week’s commentary is about the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials on September 30th.

National Latino Congreso Convenes

GUEST: John Trasviña, Interim President and General Counsel of MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

From September 5th – 1oth, the National Latino Congreso has been gathering in downtown Los Angeles. Organizers are describing the National Latino Congreso as being the most comprehensive gathering of Latino leaders, organizations, and elected officials since 1977. The five-day conference features discussions pf some of the most pressing issues of our time. Among the items on the agenda for the Congreso are voting rights, elections reform, social justice, economic equality, voter mobilization, and comprehensive immigration reform. As part of the Congreso, a rally and vigil to urge Congress to pass an immigration reform bill is taking place on Saturday, September 9th. Among the hundreds of speakers at the 5-day long National Latino Congreso, are LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, and Gubernatorial candidate and State Treasurer, Phil Angelides, as well as Bill and Hilary Clinton, John McCain, and Howard Dean. Delegates at the Congreso will be voting on a number of resolutions. They have already endorsed California’s public financing ballot measure in this year’s election.

Speakers also include Bill and Hilary Clinton, Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Howard Dean and others.

For more information, visit www.latinocongreso.org.

For more information on MALDEF, call 213-629-2512, or visit www.maldef.org.

Empire Notes on “War on Terror” – Part 1

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 part 1 of 2, on the “War on Terror.”

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

Challenging the Right on Campus

GUEST: Felicia Gustin, co-Author of “Turning the Tide,” and co-director of Speak Out

As the school year begins for many university students across the nation, a new report entitled, “Turning the Tide: Challenging the Right on Campus,” has just been released by Speak Out and the Oakland Institute. Co-authored by Anuradha Mittal and Felicia Gustin and featuring a foreword by people’s historian Howard Zinn, “Turning the Tide,” calls for a broad-based, progressive movement on college campuses to counter the ever emerging college conservative movement. The report analyses the history and strategies employed by the right in order to gain political influence among students. College Republicans is a growing organization and has increased its total membership three-fold to over 120,000 members on over a thousand college campuses. Over the course of a decade, conservative opinions are increasingly finding favor among college freshmen. According to a 2003 survey sponsored by the American Council of Education, 53 percent of college freshman favored ending affirmative action, while only 55 percent favored reproductive rights, down from two-thirds in 1992. “Turning the Tide,” concludes by presenting options on how to construct a framework for progressive organizing on college campuses.

For more information, visit www.speakoutnow.org.

Download the report here:
http://www.campusactivism.org/server-new/uploads/turningthetide.pdf

To order a copy of Turning the Tide, send $10 check or money order (includes shipping & handling) along with your name and address to:

Speak Out
PO Box 99096
Emeryville CA 94662

To charge to your Visa or Mastercard, call
510-601-0182.

Bulk copies of the report are also available by contacting Speak Out.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

“Being young and not being a revolutionary is a biological contradiction” — Salvador Allende