Sep 26 2006
GUEST: Lisa Hajjar, Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, author of “Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza,” and editor of “Middle East Report.”
Late last week, the House Judiciary Committee endorsed President Bush’s plan to legalize …
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Sep 26 2006
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.†– Gandhi. …
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Sep 22 2006
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This week on Uprising:
* FCC Supresses its own Report
* Mining and Human Rights in Mongolia
* Oaxaca Communities Rise Up
* Empire Notes on “War on Terror” – Part 3
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Sep 20 2006
GUEST: Mike Davis, Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people live in slums in the cities of the Global south. Instead of the so-called Cities of Light as once imagined by urban futurists, much of the 21st century urban world sits in squalor, surrounded by pollution, excrement, and decay. In October 2003, the United Nations Human Settlements …
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Sep 19 2006
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar will be out of town on a book tour from September 20-25th. She will be back live on Tuesday September 26th.
Sep 19 2006
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed “The Secure Fence Act of 2006,†that calls for erecting a 700 mile double layer wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. House Resolution 6061 passed by a vote of 283 – …
Sep 19 2006
GUEST: Adam Candeub, Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law
Last week, California Senator Barbara Boxer released a draft of a study by the Federal Communications Commission, showing that media consolidation leads to less local TV news coverage. Adam Candeub, a former lawyer with the FCC said FCC managers …
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Sep 19 2006
GUESTS: Brian Dominick, Jessica Azulay, members of the New Standard Collective
As my producer and I opened one of our favorite online news sites yesterday, we were faced with the words, “TNS Slated to Disappear.” TNS is the The New Standard, a news service managed by a collective of journalists and published …
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Sep 19 2006
The History that Might Have Been
Christopher Columbus couldn’t discover America: he didn’t have a visa or even a passport.
Pedro Alvares CAbral couldn’t get off the boat in Brazil: he might have been carrying smallpox, measles, the flu, or other foreign plagues.
Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro could never have begun the conquest of Mexico and Peru: they didn’t have working papers.
Pedro …
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Sep 18 2006
GUESTS: Vanessa Diaz, director, editor and producer of Cuban Hip Hop, Larissa Diaz, producer and editor of Cuban Hip Hop
Unbeknownst to many Americans, Hip Hop has rapidly become one of the preferred forms of expression and youth culture on the island nation of Cuba. Despite the imposition of a decade’s long …
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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