Sep
25
2007
… about Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot .
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Sep
24
2007
“We are all refugees of a future that never happened.” — Lee Weiner quotes …
Sep
24
2007
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GUESTS: Raed Jarrar, Iraq, Consultant for the American Friend’s Service Committee, and Noah Merril, of the Electronic News and Analysis Website.
According to the American Friends Service Committee, the cost of the Iraq war is $720 million, daily. The figure, which can be broken down to half a million dollars spent per minute, was displayed on …
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Sep
24
2007
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GUEST: Randall Robinson, author of “An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.”
Following a recent one day visit to Haiti, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim did not indicate a timetable for withdraw of his country’s U.N. forces from the Caribbean nation. U.N. officials have said that the nearly 9,000 strong multinational so-called …
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Sep
24
2007
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GUEST: Belinda Escobosa Helzer, staff attorney at the ACLU of Orange County.
Immigrant rights activist Coyotl Tezcatlipoca was addressing a meeting of the Costa Mesa City Council in January of last year when he was abruptly cut off by local mayor, Allan Mansoor. Coyotl was criticizing a proposal to mandate local police officers enforce federal immigration …
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Sep
24
2007
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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 commentary is on Protests in Burma.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
Sep
24
2007
… about The Majestic Twelve.
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Sep
21
2007
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.” — Theodore Adorno …
Sep
21
2007
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This week on Uprising:
* The Road From Ar Ramadi by Camilo Mejia
* Black Agenda Radio on White Man’s Wars
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Sep
21
2007
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GUEST: Dr. James Crowell, President of the Biloxi chapter of the NAACP
Last Wednesday, religious leaders protested a plan to divert housing recovery funds to expand the Port of Gulfport in Mississippi. The group of more than a dozen challenged Republican Governor Haley Barbour to answer their protest within 24 hours. Last September 7th, Governor Barbour announced …
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