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Three US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Friday, bringing the April fatalities to a total of eighteen, double the number in March, as violence there is once again on the rise. In Afghanistan on the same day, three more US soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack in Eastern Afghanistan, part of a stated …
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May
04
2009
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It’s been nearly 50 years since Hawaii became the 50th US state and preparations are underway on the islands of Hawaii to mark the day in August. But, despite what the tourist advertising may imply, statehood is a controversial topic, one that native Hawaiians take very seriously. In fact, events marking the 50th anniversary are being called …
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May
04
2009
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The Kent Shootings
Back in the day on May 4th, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on Vietnam War protesters on the campus of Kent State University. The volley of sixty-seven bullets in thirteen seconds claimed the lives of four students that day and injured nine others. The National Guard had been called to Kent as …
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May
04
2009
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.” — C. Wright Mills …
May
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2009
We’ll be joined in studio by Susan Galleymore, author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War and Terror. And, we’ll go to Mexico to hear from Laura Carlsen the Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease. Plus, we’ll look at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, featuring a number of provocative and socially conscious films. And this week’s Empire Notes.
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May
01
2009
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This week on Uprising:
* The First 100 Days: Obama’s Progressive Mandate
* Black Agenda Report on the Profiling of Black Colleges
* On May Day, a Call for Labor, Economic, and Immigration Justice
* Empire Notes on Prosecuting Torture
* Afghanistan Peace and Development …
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May
01
2009
On Monday Susan Galleymore, whose son served in Iraq and Afghanistan will be a guest on Uprising. Galleymore is author of “Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak about War and Terror”
Speaking Events:
Susan Galleymore will be speaking on Sunday at noon at the Arlington West weekly anti-war vigil on the north side of Santa Monica Pier on the beach in Santa Monica.
LOCATION: Arlington West Santa Monica – north of Santa Monica Pier, on the beach, …
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May
01
2009
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On Tuesday April 28th, an intimate gathering of prominent Afghan Americans and progressive analysts met at a conference in Queens College, New York, to come to consensus on how best to achieve peace in Afghanistan. Organized by the Afghanistan Peace Association, the conference raised the various challenges facing Afghanistan including widespread poverty, ineffective government, and a growing insurgency. …
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May
01
2009
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This past Wednesday marked President Obama’s 100th day in office, which he commemorated by issuing a sort of reportcard for his own administration. Saying he was “confident of the future, but not content with the present,” the 44th US president can count among his domestic accomplishments, signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, expanding publicly funded health insurance …
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May
01
2009
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While May Day traditionally has its roots in radical American labor history, over the past several years,the first day of this month has increasingly become the day marked by immigrant labor in the US to rally for justice. May Day in Los Angeles has its own brief and dramatic history – in 2006 hundreds of thousands of …
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