Aug 11 2008
“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.” — Cesar Chavez …
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Aug 08 2008
We’ll follow up on the Hamdan case now that the verdict is in, and see what it means for American justice. And, Monsanto announces it will give up producing recombinant growth hormone, used widely in milk – this after years of fighting milk labeling standards. Plus, as air-line consumers continue to be disgusted by their flying experiences, a new passengers’ bill of rights makes its way through Congress. …
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Aug 08 2008
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This week on Uprising:
* Not Enough Achieved at AIDS Conference
* Black Agenda Report about the DC Greens and the Washington Post
* The Olympics Games or The Commercial Games?
* China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
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Aug 08 2008
The 17th International AIDS Conference is set to conclude today in Mexico City. The week-long gathering of scientists, government officials, and representatives from international agencies, focused on a discussion of the global AIDS crisis including treatment and prevention policies. The AIDS virus currently infects more than 33 million people worldwide and has already claimed …
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Aug 08 2008
Three Palestinian Fulbright scholars directly appealed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday to reissue their entry visas to the US. The Palestinian students at the center of diplomatic tensions between Israel and the U.S. were recently deemed “security threats.” Neither Israeli nor U.S. officials have commented as to the nature of …
Aug 08 2008
The recent spike in oil and food prices, and extreme weather conditions due to climate change have led many Americans to consider changing their eating and shopping habits and even their lifestyles. In Pasadena, the Dervaes family has transformed their residential lot into an urban homestead on which they generate more than …
Aug 08 2008
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about the DC Greens and the Washington Post.
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Aug 08 2008
Listen to today’s Subversive Historian
The 8.8.88 Uprising by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Twenty years ago on this day in people’s history, the 8.8.88 Uprising took place in Burma. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Burma on August 8th, 1988 to demand democracy. On the occasion of the country’s 40th anniversary of independence, students, workers and Buddhist monks protested for …
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Aug 08 2008
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” –- Thomas Paine
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Aug 07 2008
The money in this year’s Beijing Olympics Games is unprecedented. At a tally of $43 billion dollars, the games are fifty percent more expensive than the previous five Olympics’ bills added together, according to the Wall Street Journal. In fact, “never in the history of sports has so much money been spent in …
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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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