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This week on Uprising:

* Where Does Pennsylvania’s Primary Leave Obama and Clinton?
* Empire Notes: Capitalism and the Global Food Crisis
* The Real SPP Conspiracy: Promoting Big Business and Endless War
* Black Agenda Report on Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment
* Conversation with an Immigrant Mother Facing Deportation and her Daughter

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Where Does Pennsylvania’s Primary Leave Obama and Clinton?

GUEST: Suzan Erem, General Manager of “Voices of Central Pennsylvania,” and co-author of “On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleton Five”

Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary election for the Democratic nomination on Tuesday April 22nd leading her rival Barack Obama by 55-45%. Her victory in another big state has sparked new hope in her campaign for clinching the nomination nationally. As in other states, Clinton’s supporters were largely white and older, while Obama won big among Blacks and youth. But because Pennsylvania allocates delegates proportionally, her latest win does little to catch up to Obama’s delegate lead. With no major states among the nine remaining contests, Clinton’s delegate gap may be impossible for her to erase. The candidates are now gearing up for the next two races on May 6th in Indiana and North Carolina. Obama is leading in North Carolina, while in Indiana both candidates are neck in neck.

Empire Notes: Capitalism and the Global Food Crisis

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’s commentary reflects on capitalism and the global food crisis.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

The Real SPP Conspiracy: Promoting Big Business and Endless War

GUEST: Manuel Pérez Rocha is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he leads an initiative on the Security and Prosperity Partnership

This past week political and business leaders from the three North American countries gathered in New Orleans for a meeting called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) to discuss ways in which to expand NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. The meeting, shrouded in secrecy, has sparked a wave of conspiracy theories about the formation of a so-called North American Union, whose currency would be the “Amero” like the EU’s Euro. CNN’s notoriously anti-immigrant anchor, Lou Dobbs has predicted that the SPP will “end the United States as we know it.” But many other activists gathered outside the meeting are protesting a conspiracy with more basis in reality: the bulldozing of civil rights and workers rights in the interests of big business.

Read Rocha’s articles about the SPP here:
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/324
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/81361/

Black Agenda Report on Gun Control and the Second Amendment

GUEST: Bruce Dixon is a writer and radio commentator and the Managing Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about gun control and the second amendment. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

Conversation with an Immigrant Mother Facing Deportation and her Daughter

GUESTS: Maria, immigrant mother facing deportation after an ICE raid, Jessica Salcedo her 14 year old daughter, Xiomara Corpeno, Director of organizing at CHIRLA and interpreter

Last week, federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a series of immigration raids at workplaces in five states, including the nation’s largest poultry producer. The Texas based Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plant said that approximately four hundred of its employees were taken into custody after Wednesday’s sweeps. Immigrant workers were also apprehended at various restaurants and factories in New York, Florida, Arkansas, and Tennessee. While elected officials and federal agencies argue over economics and national security, communities are reeling from the devastation of being separated from family members and the loss of income. Today we’ll hear from a woman named Maria who was rounded up at Global Microsolutions Corp. in an ICE raid on February 7th in Torrance, California. She was immediately put into deportation proceedings despite having lived and worked in the US for over 15 years. I spoke first with her 14 year old daughter Jessica and later with Maria herself. Joining the conversation was Xiomara Corpeno, Director of Organizing with the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day

“Do not expect justice where might is right.” — Plato