Aug 30 2007
… about Thurgood Marshall.
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Aug 30 2007
“Our visions begin with our desires” — Audre Lourde …
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Aug 29 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 …
Aug 29 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 …
Aug 28 2007
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford …
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Aug 28 2007
GUESTS: Jeffrey Buchanan, Communications Officer for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial and Co-author of the report “Where did the Katrina money go?” Darryl Malek-Wiley, Environmental Justice Organizer with Sierra Club
On the eve of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, organizers and residents of New Orleans are demanding rights for displaced residents. A two-day, “Bring Our …
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Aug 28 2007
GUEST: Raquel Rubio Goldsmith, Coordinator of the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona
Nearly 200 hundred bodies have been recovered this year on the Arizona-Mexico border according to Tuscon based human rights group, Derechos Humanos. This most recent figure brings the total number of recorded deaths on the border to 5,000 since the …
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Aug 28 2007
GUEST: Bob Gnaizda, Greenlining instutite
Consumer advocates have called for a moratorium on home foreclosures, as they warn that California will face many more next year. The reason cited for the projected increase of foreclosures is that homeowners are expected to be hit with payment increases brought on by subprime loans and risky mortgages. The call for …
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Aug 28 2007
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 commentary is on Bush’s Vietnam Analogy
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Aug 28 2007
… about The Death of Emmett Till.
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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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