“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” — Robert Ingersoll …

We’ll speak with analyst Bill Fletcher, Executive Editor of the Black Commentator, about the right-wing onslaught against the President, Obama’s own response to it, and the position that it puts progressives in. Plus, we’ll examine the controvery over Obama’s back-to-school speech, and all of the issues of concern in today’s educational system that conservative parents seem happy to accept. And, hundreds of Disney workers protest a lack of affordable healthcare – they plan on staging …

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“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!” — Anthony de Mello …

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Even as Afghan incumbent Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of the presidential elections, a UN-backed election commission announced today that there was clear evidence of widespread fraud. An unnamed senior Western diplomat told the New York Times that as many as 800 fake polling sites turned in hundreds of thousands of votes for Karzai on election day, calling …

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The California State Assembly, in a rare effort to amend a social program slated for deep cuts, passed a bill on Friday aimed at bolstering Healthy Families. With some bipartisan support, and with an expected signature from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, nearly 700,000 children will be saved from being cut from the program that provides government subsidized medical coverage …

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Palestinian American film maker Cherien Dabis’s debut feature Amreeka opens this weeks in Southern California theaters. Set in 2003 during the first weeks of the US invasion of Iraq, Amreeka is the story of a single mother Muna from the West Bank, who with her teenage son Fadi, immigrates to the US after concluding that life under Israeli occupation …

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Leonard Matlovich

Back in the day on September 8th, 1975, Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich became the first openly gay person to appear on the cover a major U.S. news magazine. The Vietnam veteran was profiled in TIME for challenging the military’s discriminatory ban on homosexuals. Matlovich, who had what was described as an impeccable military record, had …

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We’ll speak with dissident war veteran Rick Reyes about his recent trip to Afghanistan and the effects of US occupation. And film maker Cherian Debis will join us to discuss her new feature film Amreeka about an immigrant Palestinian family’s experiences in the US. Plus, community groups are launching an effort to impeach Governor Schwarzenegger in light of his budget cuts. …

We’ll hear some of our best interviews of the past week, including a Labor-day look at a new study on shocking violations against low-wage workers. And, we’ll look at ways to curb childhood obesity and its related diseases through taxes on junk food. Plus, a new plan to build a defacto Palestinian state within two years. And the Black Agenda Report. …

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This week on Uprising:

* Low Wage Workers Suffer Shocking Labor Violations
* Black Agenda Report on LA School Reform in the Age of Obama
* Taxing Junk Food: Could it Work?
* Palestinian PM Announces Plan for Defacto State

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