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This week on Uprising:

* Bush Nominates Zoellick for World Bank Post
* Empire Notes on Democrats’ Capitulation on the Iraq Funding Bill
* A Conversation with Noam Chomsky on his new book, Interventions
* Black Agenda Report on Barack Obama
* Progressives Gear Up for the US Social Forum in Atlanta

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Bush Nominates Zoellick for World Bank Post

GUESTS: Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director of New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, Ruth Castel-Branco, Outreach/Communications Coordinator, 50 Years Is Enough Network

On Wednesday May 30th, President Bush nominated Robert B. Zoellick as a candidate for Managing Director of the World Bank. Zoellick had previously served in high-ranking foreign policy and economic policy posts under three Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan. He served as US trade representative under Bush in 2001 during which he distinguished himself primarily by protecting U.S. pharmaceutical firms in global trade talks. Zoellick was also known for repeatedly rejecting developing countries’ concerns on issues like agriculture, access to medicines, and protecting biodiversity. Last year, he became a top executive at Goldman Sachs, a global financial corporation. The US has exclusive authority to select the top post at the World Bank. If selected, Zoellick will replace the disgraced Paul Wolfowitz who resigned over a bank investigation which found that he had violated policy by involving himself in personnel decisions regarding his girlfriend.

For more information, visit www.50years.org, and www.new-rules.org.

Empire Notes on Democrats’ Capitulation on the Iraq Funding Bill

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 Democratic Capitulation.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

A Conversation with Noam Chomsky on his new book, Interventions

GUEST: Noam Chomsky, has taught Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than 50 years, author of dozens of books including “Hegemony or Survival,” and “Failed States”

Since 2002, the New York Times Syndicate has been distributing op-eds written by the pre-eminent foreign policy critic and scholar of our time, Noam Chomsky. The New York Times Syndicate is part of the same company as the New York Times newspaper, and while readers around the world have had a chance to regularly read Chomsky’s articles, the New York Times newspaper has never published a single one. Only a few regional newspapers in the US have picked up the Op-eds, such as the Register Guard, the Dayton Daily News, and the Knoxville Voice. Internationally, the Op-eds have appeared in the mainstream British press including the International Herald Tribune, the Guardian, and the Independent. Now, City Lights Books has just published a complete collection of these 1000 word Op-eds in a single book called Interventions.

Black Agenda Report on Barack Obama

GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is on Barack Obama. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

Progressives Gear Up for the US Social Forum in Atlanta

GUEST: Tammy Bang Luu, national planning committee for the US Social Forum

The first ever United States Social Forum will take place in Atlanta, Georgia under the banner of “Another World is Possible/ Another US is Necessary.” Beginning June 27th, 20,000 activists, trade unionists, students, educators, and people of faith are expected to attend the historic five day gathering. Atlanta, Georgia was chosen to host the first US Social Forum on account of its unique history in the struggle for social justice. Organizers hope that this inaugural US forum will provide an opportunity for the progressive community to build a stronger movement for social change. The forum will be centered on six key plenary themes; Gulf Coast reconstruction, indigenous sovereignty, war, militarism, and prison, gender and sexuality, workers’ rights, and immigrant rights. Taking its cue from the World Social Forum, the US forum will be self-planned and self organized. Hundreds of workshops will take place in addition to numerous other panels, presentations, exhibits, marches, and cultural events. Some political commentators have said that the US Social Forum could be the most significant event for the progressive community in the states since Seattle’s anti-corporate globalization protests of 1999.

The US Social Forum website is www.ussf2007.org.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” — Anonymous graffiti quotes in “Inciting Democracy”