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This week on Uprising:

* Iran’s Green Revolution Going Strong; Ahmedinejad Weak
* Black Agenda Report on John Conyers, Barack Obama, and Health Care
* Right-wing Groups Organize Astroturf Campaign to Defeat Health Care Reform
* Empire Notes: Global Environmental Strain and New Thinking …

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We’ll examine President Obama’s immigration detention center policy, and speak with reporter Aura Bogado about a rash of hunger strikes at one facility in South Louisiana. Plus, Greenpeace urges regulation of dangerous chemicals, they call “the worst Greenhouse gases you’ve never heard of.” And, Jeremy Brecher joins us to share his vision for how to fight global economic stagnation and global warming simultaneously with a “green New Deal.” …

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Conservatives are already celebrating the delay in health care legislation as a victory to quash reform. Now that Congress is on recess touring their districts to interact with constituents, the fight has been moved to localized town hall meetings. Right wing groups like Americans for Prosperity, and their front groups, like Patients United, have descended on Congressional Democrats supporting a public …

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Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” has been freely adapted as part of the Theatricum Botanicum’s Summer Season. Director Heidi Helen Davis and along with the Theatricum’s Ellen Geer have shifted the scene and the time of the original play from 19th century feudal Russia to 1970’s Virginia here in the US. Whereas Chekhov’s tragicomedy dealt with former serfs …

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On Tuesday, judges on a Federal court panel ordered California state officials to lower their prison population by 40,000 within two years. The judges have given California 45 days to devise a plan on how to trim prisoners from its 33 adult prisons. Suggestions have been made to rearrange parole practices, transfer prisoners to rehabilitation programs or county jails, as well …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about John Conyers, Barack Obama and Health care Reform.

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The First Edition of Regeneracion

Back in the day on August 7th, 1900, Ricardo Flores Magon with the help of his brother Jesus published the first edition of “Regeneracion.” A law student who heeded the call of journalism, Flores Magon initially oriented the periodical around critique of the criminal justice system in Mexico. In time, “Regeneracion” …

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We’ll take a hard look at the recent rightwing confrontations at town hall meetings across the US: are they are grassroots or an Astroturf campaign? And, California’s prison system is bursting at the seams – a Federal court orders the shedding of 40,000 prisoners. Plus, an adaptation of Anton Chekov’s play The Cherry Orchard is playing at the Theatricum Botanicum – we’ll be joined by director Heidi Helen Davis. And this week’s Black Agenda Report. …

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after a much disputed presidential election on June 12th, was inaugurated earlier this week in Tehran with several members of parliament and senior officials boycotting a ceremonial endorsement by Ayatollah Khamanei. The two main opposition candidates in last June’s election, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, as well as former Presidents Mohammad Khatami and …

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