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This week on Uprising:

* A New Report on Black Infant Mortality
* Black Agenda Report on Guinea’s Oil
* Che Guevara’s Record as a Guerrilla Soldier
* Empire Notes on Biden and the Partition of Iraq
* Argentina’s Worker-run Enterprises

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A New Report on Black Infant Mortality

GUESTS: Gina Wood, Deputy Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Ron David, M.D.Co-chair, National Commission on Infant Mortality

According to a recently released report, black infant mortality rates in the United States are more than twice the number suffered by white populations. Authored by a commission sponsored by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, the report calls the inequality a “new civil rights issue.” The series of studies from the Joint Center entitled “The Courage to Love” examine breastfeeding, maternal nutrition as well as stress, race and social support issues in seeking to understand the disparities. The stress of racism is implicated as an important factor as black women are less likely to have access health insurance in addition to being more likely to live under the federal poverty line. The commission, comprising of medical professionals and academics, concludes its research by calling for new approaches in policy and significant changes in order to address the disparities in infant mortality rates.

For more information, visit www.jointcenter.org/

Black Agenda Report on Guinea’s Oil

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

This week’s commentary is about Guinea’s Oil. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

Che Guevara’s Record as a Guerrilla Soldier

GUEST: Paul J. Dosal, Professor of History, University of South Florida, Author of Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956 – 1967

Cuban media is reporting that Cuban doctors restored the eyesight of the man who executed Ernesto “Che” Guevara forty years ago. Mario Teran, a Bolivian army sergeant in 1967, underwent cataracts surgery in Bolivia under a Cuban program that offers free eye care in Latin America. Though the surgery took place last year, Cuban media reported the story in the lead up to 40th anniversary commemoration plans for Che on the island nation. After successfully participating in the Cuban revolution as a Comandante, Che went on first to the Congo and then to Bolivia to spread armed rebellion. His career as a revolutionary came to an end after being captured on October 8, 1967 by the Bolivian army. He was executed the very next day. In the decades that have followed, Che has endured as a symbol of struggle in an unjust world. While the symbolic and political dimension of Che’s legacy has been given ample attention, the focus on his historical record as a Comandante has not.

Empire Notes on Biden and the Partition of Iraq

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 Biden and the Partition of Iraq.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

Argentina’s Worker-run Enterprises

GUEST: Marie Trigona, member of Grupo Alavio, a Direct Action and Video Collective – and a correspondent for Free Speech Radio news, based in Buenos Aires

Workers throughout Argentina are organizing in support of a national expropriation law – even as some of the country’s best-known worker-run enterprises face legal limbo and eviction. The high rise BAUEN Hotel in the heart of Buenos Aires City, which has been under worker control for the past four years, was issued a 30-day eviction by a federal court in July, which the hotel’s 154 workers have so far been successful in fighting. Behind them are the 10, 000 or so workers who labor at one of the nearly 200 worker-owned businesses in Argentina. The BAUEN Hotel has become a symbol of change and resistance. After being built in 1978 under Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship – in which some 30,000 people were disappeared – BAUEN’s original owner, Marcelo Iurovich never made good on bringing the site up to code, and failed to pay back millions of dollars in state loans. The boss fired the remaining 80 workers in the middle of Argentina’s economic crisis in December 2001, but workers organized to recuperate the hotel, their jobs, and their dignity in 2003. Today, they face legal uncertainty, just like many of the other recuperated businesses in which workers took their future in their own hands and continued to produce products and services with a boss.

For more information, visit www.agoratv.org

Uprising’s Subversive Thought for the Day

“To defend your job, you must defend someone else’s job. And to defend your food, you must defend someone else’s food.” — Candido Gonzalez, a worker at the Chilvert Cooperative in Buenos Aires