Dec 17 2007
GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on the idea of a Black President
Listen to Mumia’s audio commentaries at www.prisonradio.org. …
Dec 17 2007
“I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It’s quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.” -– Eduardo Galeano …
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Dec 14 2007
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This week on Uprising:
* Monbiot: Proposed Global Warming Cuts Far Too Weak
* Empire Notes on Venezuela’s Economy
* Oprah Endorses Obama: Will it Work?
* Black Agenda Report on Walmart
* FCC Chair Gives In To Big Media
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Dec 14 2007
GUEST: David Kotz, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and coauthor of “Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia.”
Earlier this week Russia announced its decision to withdraw unilaterally from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, angering the US and other NATO …
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Dec 14 2007
GUESTS: Ralph Camacho, organizer of the Southern California Anarchist Conference, Isaac Ontiveros, member of the AK Press Collective
Anarchism is perhaps one of the most misunderstood of all political philosophies. Distortions about anarchism from both the left and the right have obscured a non-monolithic radical tradition that opposes in various ways and means …
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Dec 14 2007
“The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.” — Erich Fromm
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Dec 14 2007
GUESTS: Laura Palomares founder of El Puente, Quincy McCrary, singer/songwriter and music coordinator of Antimall
For the past several years, conscious consumers have been forgoing the mall to spend their holiday dollars at the annual Antimall. Antimall is a project of El Puente, a collective that works on economic justice in local communities. The idea …
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Dec 14 2007
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is about Walmart. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Dec 13 2007
GUEST: John Entelis, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University, co-author of “The Algerian Civil War”
The death toll in the wake of Tuesday’s twin truck bombings in the capital of Algeria has continued to rise. Yesterday’s government figures placed the number of dead at 31 …
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Dec 13 2007
GUEST: Peter Hart, Activism Coordinator at FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Presidential electoral politics have provided fodder for breathless horse-race style reporting for most of the mainstream media for years now. Who’s the front runner and who’s made the most progress, become topics for many column inches and broadcast minutes each day. With …
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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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