Apr 06 2009
The Murder of Little Bobby Hutton
Back in the day on April 6th 1968, Black Panther Party member Little Bobby Hutton was murdered by the Oakland Police. Coming just two days after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was slain, Hutton, who was the first person to join the Panthers at the age of 16 …
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Apr 03 2009
We’ll find out why amidst rising unemployment, union members are picketing their own union, and we’ll be joined in studio by Helen Benedict, author of “The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq.” Plus, the last of the White House’s Regional Health care forums is held in LA on Monday – we’ll speak with advocates of single payer health care. …
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Apr 03 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* G-20 Ignores Protesters, Moves Ahead with Neo-Liberal Agenda to Solve Crisis
* Black Agenda Report: Comparing Iraq and Afghanistan
* New Israeli Government Veers Sharply to the Right
* Prospects for Iraqi Peace
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Apr 03 2009
At their London meeting yesterday, the Group of 20 countries agreed to reform the international finance system through the use of regulations, registries, and executive pay caps. More significantly they agreed to set aside a 1.1 trillion dollar “recovery fund,” the majority of which will be used by the International Monetary Fund. There was also agreement to …
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Apr 03 2009
On Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party was sworn in by the Israeli Knesset after forming the largest cabinet in his nation’s political history. Netanyahu, who was previously the Prime Minister of Israel from 1996 – 1999, formed his coalition government by naming hard-line right winger Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party as his Foreign Minister …
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Apr 03 2009
Scour the news about online child predators, and you’ll hear that sexual predators are everywhere, increasing in number, and ready to lure your child. Take this local CBS news website headline: “Internet Crimes Increase, While Law Enforcement Budgets Decrease.” One number that has been repeated on network news is that “50,000 predators” are trolling the Internet …
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Apr 03 2009
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Black-White Income Gaps.
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Apr 03 2009
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
Back in the day on April 3rd, 1968 the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last speech entitled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” The emblematic civil rights leader was in Memphis, Tennessee at the time to support striking sanitation workers ahead of the planned Poor People’s March on Washington. As …
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Apr 03 2009
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” — Abraham Lincoln …
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Apr 02 2009
We’ll analyze the conclusion of this week’s G 20 summit in London with radical economist Robin Hahnel. And, we’ll take a look at the new Israeli cabinet as Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as Prime Minister. Plus, is the alarm over online child predators justified? We’ll speak with a media analyst and a researcher with the Crimes Against Children Research Center. …
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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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