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GUEST: Maritza Galvez, Youth Justice Coalition

Starting tonight, California’s grassroots juvenile justice organization, Youth Justice Coalition, will be taking bus-loads of activists from Los Angeles to Sacramento to begin a Beyond Prisons day statewide campaign for progressive reforms in the juvenile justice system. They also plan to challenge Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plans to …

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… about the first Chicano Youth Liberation Conference.

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“It is only through the strength and courage of those few who are willing to stand against insurmountable odds and incalculable risk that true change can be wrought. Your work to end modern day slavery reminds us all that there is still much to be done to end injustice both at home and abroad!” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s response to CIW’s Taco Bell victory in 2005 …

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GUEST: Christine Ahn, Policy analyst with the Korea Policy Institute, coordinating the campaign with the Korean-Americans for Fair Trade

The US and South Korea are working feverishly on a free-trade deal before the end of this month. South Korea warned today that there would be no agreement if the US insisted …

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GUEST: Robert Perez, Freeze Relief Director with the United Farm Workers

This week is Farmworkers Awareness week and today we focus on the struggles of California’s farm workers in the face of last winter’s freeze that left thousands of people with no work, and no pay. At the request of Governor Schwarzenegger, …

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GUEST: California State Senator Gloria Romero

California State Senator Gloria Romero is sponsoring a bill to make the Honor Program at the State Prison in Los Angeles County the law. The bill would continue the program as well as lay the foundations for a statewide expansion. Originally created in 2000 by non-custody staff and …

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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 “the fight over Iraq appropriations”
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… about the US Naturalization Law of 1790 .

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“Many years back, I gave up on thuggish mentality and attitudes through the sweat lodge and understanding my past, I came to understand and believe violence is the easy and weak way out of doing things. Thought and knowledge is not easy, but good for my spirit, and less complicated.” — Cualanqi, an inmate at Lancaster prison in LA County. …

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This week on Uprising:

* Empire Notes on the 4th Anniversary of the Iraq War – Pt 2
* Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson
* Black Agenda Report on White Preference for Black Immigrants

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