Feb 06 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Chris Hedges on the Economy: It’s Not Going to Be Okay
* Empire Notes on the Iraqi Elections
* Senate Committee Sneaks Funding for Nuclear Industry into Stimulus Package
* Black Agenda Report about the New Black GOP Chair
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Feb 06 2009
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February is Black History month and in this past year, the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency has been one of the most dramatic moments in Black history and American history. From reading the editorial pages of newspapers and blogs one might be convinced that the election’s outcome means …
Feb 06 2009
“A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.” — Cornel West …
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Feb 05 2009
As debate over President Obama’s economic stimulus package turns to the Senate, more than two hundred groups are calling for at least one provision in the bill to be removed. Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved an amendment proposed by Republican Senator Robert F. Bennett calling for the allocation of fifty billion dollars in federal loan …
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Feb 05 2009
The Labor Department announced an unexpected jump in first-time claims for jobless benefits at the end of January. Initial unemployment claims increased by 35,000, the highest level in 26 years. The total number of people collecting jobless benefits has climbed to a record 4.79 million. According to veteran journalist and frequent Uprising guest, Chris Hedges, …
Feb 05 2009
In a new report, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy or LAANE, found that taxpayer subsidies to the tourism industry in Long Beach have not yielded a fair return on the public’s investment. The city has for nearly 30 years invested over $750 million in taxpayer subsidies in hopes of creating revenue and …
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Feb 05 2009
“The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.”– Bill Bryson …
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Feb 04 2009
“There is no dishonor in being slaves. There is dishonor is being slave owners. But let us not think of honor or dishonor in connection with the past. Let us realize that the future is with those who would be truthful pure and loving.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi in a letter to W.E.B. Du Bois …
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Feb 04 2009
What do the blockbuster film Slumdog Millionaire, Booker Prize winning novel White Tiger, out-sourced call-centers, urban bomb blasts, nuclear brinkmanship, and missile attacks by unmanned aircraft all have in common? The answer spread over the front pages everyday is: South Asia. Then there is another South Asia, continuously steeped into movements of resistance and self determination or terrorism – depending who you talk to: Kashmir, Tamil …
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Feb 03 2009
As California’s financial crisis worsens, lawmakers are still polarized on the state’s budget. The treasury has been depleted, and the state’s controller has begun withholding payments and, instead, is issuing IOUs, which are leaving many Californians in dire circumstances. Some 2.7 million Californians won’t receive their income tax refunds this month. College aid has also been placed …
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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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