Archive for October, 2007

Oct 08 2007

Jonathan Kozol’s “Letters to a Young Teacher”

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GUEST: Jonathan Kozol, author of “Letters to a Young Teacher”

As half of new teachers are likely to quit within the first five years on job, Jonathan Kozol has written a new book of letters to a first year teacher. The semi-fictionalized “Francesca,” based on young educators who have written to Kozol over the years, is a …

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Oct 08 2007

Empire Notes on a Tale of Two Atrocities

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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire NotesEmpire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today commentary is on a Tale of Two Atrocities.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …

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Oct 08 2007

Radical Day in History – 10/08/07

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… about The Suicide of Henri Christophe

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Oct 05 2007

Weekly Digest – 10/05/07

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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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Oct 05 2007

October 5th, 2007

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“You go into an Arab nation, you kill people, you steal their oil, you destroy their country and charge them to have it rebuilt. You are giving terrorism a whole new life.” — Camilo Mejia

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Oct 05 2007

Afghanistan Six Years After the US-led Invasion

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GUESTS: Sonali Kolhatkar Co-Director of Afghan Women’s Mission, Co-author of “Bleeding Afghanistan, and Regular Host of Uprising, Henry Duke with Orange County Peace Action

Twenty suspected Taliban fighters died in Afghanistan today after a clash with NATO-led forces in Kandahar. In a separate incident, one British soldier died and two were injured as a result of a …

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Oct 05 2007

Comandante Che: 40 Years Later

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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 …

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Oct 05 2007

Peace Caucus at The Latino Congreso

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GUESTS: Arturo Cambron, Military Families Speak out, Maricela Guzman, Service Women Action network (SWAN)

Latino organizations, elected officials and community leaders from throughout the country will convene for the Second Annual National Latino Congreso, at the Downtown Sheraton through Tuesday. The Congreso aims to develop plans for public policy, advocacy, and legislative and electoral strategies. Some 2,000 …

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Oct 05 2007

Black Agenda Report on Guinea’s Oil

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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. …

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Oct 05 2007

Radical Day in History – 10/05/07

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… about Spanish Conquistador Nunez de Balboa’s Slaughter of Transgender Men.

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