Jul 14 2008
GUEST: Richard Berkowitz, author of “A Personal History: Staying Alive – the Invention of Safe Sex,” David Oliver Cohen, the producer of Sex Positive
Within the midst of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, with large numbers of gay men dying from a new and poorly understood disease, a man by the name of …
Jul 14 2008
“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.” –- Oscar Wilde …
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Jul 11 2008
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This week on Uprising:
* Mexico Torture Training Videos Cause Uproar
* Empire Notes on Iran
* Debate: Progressives Disagree on Healthcare Reform
* Black Agenda Report on Zimbabwe and Somalia
* Reproduce and Revolt: A Conversation with Artist Favianna Rodriguez
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Jul 11 2008
We’ll hear a report-back from the weekend’s Green Party Convention in Chicago; Allegra Stratton discusses her book, Muhajababes, about youth in the Arab world who defy Western stereotypes. And we’ll be joined in studio by Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary AIDS activist, featured in a new documentary called Sex Positive, part of this year’s Outfest. …
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Jul 11 2008
GUEST: David Sirota, author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington
These days the so-called American Dream, more closely resembles a nightmare. Americans are struggling with unemployment, stagnating wages, job insecurity, falling housing prices, rising gas and food prices, poor health coverage, rising debt, and the un-ending war in Iraq that has claimed …
Jul 11 2008
Black Agenda Report on Zimbabwe and Somalia
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is on Zimbabwe and Somalia. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Jul 11 2008
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Jul 11 2008
“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.” — Abbie Hoffman …
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Jul 10 2008
We’ll spend the hour with David Sirota about his new book, The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington. Plus this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Jul 10 2008
GUEST: Laura Carlsen, the director of the Americas Program of the International Relations Center, based in Mexico City
A Mexican newspaper posted videos of what appear to be torture training workshops on its website last week. The videos, which are reposted on YouTube, show police in the city of Leon, being subjected to harsh treatment …
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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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