May 21 2007
From his introduction to the US edition of the book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, George Monbiot says, “The rest of the world cannot solve this problem without the United States, and the United States cannot solve it without the rest of the world. We could tear each other to pieces over what has happened in the recent past, but climate change is too important for that.” …
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May 21 2007
Sonali Kolhatkar remembers Afghanistan, even if the rest of us don’t
By GUSTAVO ARELLANO in the OC Weekly
Thursday, May 17, 2007 – 3:00 pm
http://www.ocweekly.com/culture/books/that-other-quagmire/27160/
Remember Afghanistan? The Taliban? Hamid Karzai? That weird game Afghans play involving a goat carcass? Of course not. If the Iraq War is our latest Vietnam, then Dubya’s Afghanistan adventure is our Philippine-American War: a major incursion that became a quagmire no one talks about.
One of the …
May 18 2007
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar and her co-author James Ingalls will be discussing their book, Bleeding Afghanistan, and the latest situation in Afghanistan in the Southern California area this weekend:
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WHAT: Revolutionary Mic Nite: RAWA/AWM Benefit Event
WHEN: 7-11 pm, Friday May 18, 2007
WHERE: IMIX Bookstore, 5052 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
FOR MORE INFO, download the flyer, or visit www.imixbooks.com
There will be spoken Word by Mujeres de Maiz and others, dance by UCLA’s …
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May 18 2007
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* Gordon Brown and the Future of British Politics
* Empire Notes on the Iraq Policy Failure
* Because I’m a Girl: New Study Shows Stark Global Gender Inequality
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May 18 2007
GUEST: Tony Benn, retired from the House of Commons in May 2001, after fifty years in Parliament, was the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party, which he joined in 1942 – he is also the President of the Stop the War Coalition in Britain
Gordon Brown has been named the ruling Labor Party’s …
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May 18 2007
GUEST: Christopher Finan, President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the chair of the National Coalition Against Censorship, author of “From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America”
Writing the first comprehensive history of the evolution of free speech in the United States, Christopher …
May 18 2007
GUEST: Alexander Robinson, Executive Director/CEO National Black Justice Coalition
This past Tuesday, Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died at the age of 51 in Santa Monica. The King family did not know the cause of her death but relatives think it may have been a heart problem. …
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May 18 2007
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is on Chavez and Oil. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.
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May 18 2007
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May 18 2007
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …
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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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