Jul 30 2007
… about Abraham Lincoln’s “Eye for eye” order.
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Jul 30 2007
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” — Audre Lorde …
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Jul 27 2007
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This week on Uprising:
* Cuba and Fidel, One Year Later
* Immigrant Woman Seeks Sanctuary in Church
* Scandal Over Food Imports from China Continues
* Remembering the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act
* Empire Notes on Ryan Crocker’s Recent Comments on Iraq
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Jul 27 2007
GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, author of “Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop” and Professor of Theology, English, and African American Studies at Georgetown University
The topic of hip hop as a means of social and political expression is something we have covered often on Uprising. Ever since it’s inception in the 1970s in New York’s West Bronx, Hip …
Jul 27 2007
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is about Barack Obama. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.
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Jul 27 2007
“Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.” – Frederick Douglass …
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Jul 27 2007
… about The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 .
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Jul 26 2007
GUEST: Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director of The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and one of the primary architects of the Mckinney Act
This past Sunday was the 20th anniversary of the Stewart B McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. Named after the Republican Congressman Stewart B McKinney, the act emphasized emergency measures, transitional measures …
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Jul 26 2007
GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College and author of the book, “Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures”
The “Granma International” newspaper of Cuba reported yesterday that Raul Castro would give the public address at the annual celebration of the July 26th Moncada barrack …
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Jul 26 2007
GUEST: “Flor,” a Filipino nanny who faces deportation, interviewed by KPFK reporter, Leilani Albano
Since 1996, more than 4,000 Filipinos have been deported from the United States. Following the 9/11 attacks, the rate of deportations has dramatically increased. More recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has systematically targeted immigrant communities across the …
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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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