Nov 05 2007
GUEST: Vladimir Flores, Oaxaca Correspondent with Free Speech Radio News
Political tension once again flared up in the Mexican state of Oaxaca on Friday when police arrested around 20 people as they blocked an intersection near the state university to commemorate the dead from the 2006 uprising and to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the “All Saint’s Victory”. …
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Nov 05 2007
GUEST: Debra Eschmeyer, Center for Food & Justice at the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College
The Farm Bill has been passed in the house and will soon face a vote in the Senate. Among other things, the bill will continue to guarantee inflated prices for certain agricultural products and will artificially bring down prices for …
Nov 05 2007
GUEST: Gigi B. Sohn, President and Co-Founder of Public Knowledge
Members of the SavetheInternet.com coalition joined legal scholars from the nation’s top law schools filed a petition and complain last Thursday against Comcast. The “Petition for Declaratory Ruling,” calls on the Federal Communications Commission to take action against Comcast for what they say is the cable company’s interference …
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Nov 05 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 Pervez Musharraf.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Nov 05 2007
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Nov 02 2007
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This week on Uprising:
* A Hard Look at New York’s Real ID
* Black Agenda Report on Disaster Capitalism
* The Pope Speaks Out Against the Morning After Pill
* Empire Notes on the Antiwar Movement
* Norman Solomon’s New Book, “Made Love, …
Nov 02 2007
“We didn’t kick them out because the whole Iraqi Army couldn’t do that…. But we decided to let them know that they are not welcome here…. They shouldn’t think people are receiving them with flowers.” — Iraqi Resistance Fighter from the film “Meetings Resistance”
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Nov 02 2007
GUEST: Gustavo Arellano, Staff Writer for the OC Weekly, and Author of the “Ask a Mexican,” Book and Column
Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona, his wife, and his mistress are free on bail after being named in a federal indictment for corruption earlier this week. Sheriff Carona was detained in a cell before appearing in federal court handcuffed. …
Nov 02 2007
GUESTS: Molly Bingham and Steve Connors, Filmmakers
In April 2003, people around the world watched a massive statue of Saddam Hussein toppled by US troops on television. Just a few days later, small style insurgent attacks against US occupiers began to place. Since then, the resistance fighters have carried out hundreds of attacks. After historic elections, the …
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Nov 02 2007
GUESTS: Lilia Rodriguez, Francisco Alvarez, Gallery owners, Duke One, Raul Gonzalez, Artists
The indigenous ritual of honoring the dead has been practiced for about 3,000 years in the Americas – and when Spanish colonizers arrived to present-day Mexico, they could not eradicate the tradition. Instead, the practice was absorbed into Catholic theology and became Dia de Los Muertos, …
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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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