Nov 17 2008
This week, Father Roy Bourgeois, who helped found the group, School of the America’s Watch, faces ex-communication from the Roman Catholic Church. The Maryknoll priest of thirty-six years could be subjected to the harshest form of ecclesiastical punishment for his participation in the ordination of a woman into priesthood. In August, Bourgeois gave …
Nov 17 2008
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is called “Only in America”
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Nov 17 2008
Listen to today’s Subversive Historian
The Athens Polytechnic Uprising by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Exactly thirty-five years ago on this day in people’s history, the ruling military junta of Greece put a violent end to an uprising challenging its dictatorship. On November 17th, 1973, the self-proclaimed “Regime of the Colonels†sent a tank crashing through the gates of Athens Polytechnic to quell a …
Nov 17 2008
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.†— Chinua Achebe …
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Nov 14 2008
We’ll get a report from the weekend’s G20 meeting where world leaders have gathered to grapple with the global financial crisis. And, does the auto industry really warrant a bailout? As the Senate sets a hearing date, we’ll look at why the industry failed in the first place. Plus, Father Roy Bourgeous, who has courageously taken on the School of the Americas, now faces excommunication for a very different kind of struggle – his support …
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Nov 14 2008
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This week on Uprising: A Special Look at the Obama Victory
* Afghans to Obama: End the Occupation
* Empire Notes: “Only in America”
* Bush Sneaks in 11th Hour Gutting of Environmental Regulations
* Black Agenda Report on the Election Impact in Dixie
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Nov 14 2008
While major attention is focused on President elect Barack Obama’s transition to power, the Bush Administration is spending its twilight days slipping in last minute policies, particularly on environmental regulation. Environmental groups have taken note of recent proposed changes by the Interior Department including revisions to environmental regulations that would change …
Nov 14 2008
In 1972, three black prisoners in Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana, organized their fellow prisoners against institutionalized rape, murder, and segregation within prison facilities. Robert “King†Wilkerson, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, started their own chapter of the Black Panther Party inside prison walls, and organized and radicalized their fellow prisoners. In retaliation prison officials …
Nov 14 2008
One of the major turning points for the Vietnam war was the March 1971 leak of the so-called Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. The classified 7000 page document outlined a high-level government narrative of the war that exposed its immorality and ultimately helped to end the war. The name most closely …
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Nov 14 2008
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the Election Impact in Dixie
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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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