Jul 31 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* US Continues Cozy Relationship with Philippines Despite Human Rights Violations
* Mumia Abu Jamal on Iran: The Repression of the Repressed
* Ice Caps Have Melted, Threatening to Trigger Runaway Heating
* Black Agenda Report on Racism in Firefighter …
Jul 31 2009
Economists are pointing to an 11% surge in new home sales in the US this past June, boosted by tax credits, as an indicator that the housing market may have bottomed out and is starting to revive. But the National Housing Trust Fund, enacted a year ago, remains unfunded. Signed into law by then President George W. Bush, …
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Jul 31 2009
President Obama met yesterday at the White House with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to discuss “counter-terrorism cooperation.” But activists both here in the US and the Philippines have urged the President to bring up government-sponsored human rights violations, in particular the persecution of activists like Philippino-American Melissa Roxas, a Los Angeles based volunteer who was abducted and tortured …
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Jul 31 2009
Dirt! The Movie, a new documentary by Gene Rosow and Bill Beneson, digs deep into the story of the soil covering our planet. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, the film traces the history of earth’s living skin, while highlighting its destruction through industrial agriculture and mining, and what ordinary people are doing to reclaim and nurture …
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Jul 31 2009
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Racism in Firefighter Hiring
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Jul 31 2009
Columbus Arrives in Trinidad
Back in the day on July 31st, 1498, Christopher Columbus didn’t discover the Caribbean island now known as Trinidad, but descended upon its shores anyway. As part of his Third Voyage to the Americas, Columbus claimed the land days later for the Spanish crown in spite of its original inhabitants and renamed it in …
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Jul 31 2009
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” – Rachel Carson …
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Jul 30 2009
We’ll take a look at the housing market in the United States and how the year-old National Housing Trust Fund is still awaiting fulfillment; And, Melissa Roxas, an American victim of torture in the Philippines, fights for justice. Plus, Dirt: the Movie – a new documentary about the soil under our feet. And, the Black Agenda Report. …
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Jul 30 2009
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger drew sharp criticism on Tuesday for using his authority to make line-item vetoes in the State budget. The governor cut even more state-run social programs to save an additional $656 million, including $80 million from the county run Child Welfare Services Program. The CWSP is a service that responds to reports of child abuse and …
Jul 30 2009
President Obama has sent a string of top officials this week to Israel to discuss, among other things, his demand that Israel freeze settlements in the West Bank. There are over 120 Israeli settlements and over 100 outposts on Palestinian land, considered illegal under numerous international resolutions. Obama’s insistence on freezing expansion has resonated with many countries who have …
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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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