Nov 30 2009
We’ll commemorate World AIDS Day with an in-studio conversation with Kevin Picketts, a local award winning community organizer. And, we’ll follow that with Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. Plus, as President Obama readies his speech on the Afghan war expansion, Gareth Porter explains why the US could be fueling a major civil war. …
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Nov 30 2009
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson …
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Nov 30 2009
The presidential elections in Honduras went ahead yesterday despite being shunned by most of the international community, and many Hondurans critical of the June coup. With most of the votes counted, early results show a 52% win for conservative candidate Porfirio Lobo. Military and police presence in and around the capital Tegucigalpa was reportedly high. While the coup regime …
Nov 30 2009
Earlier this month, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report warning that California could continue to face multibillion dollar budget deficits for years to come. It projects that the state will face an immediate $20.7 billion dollar deficit in the upcoming 2010-2011 fiscal year. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has until January 10th to present a new spending plan to …
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Nov 30 2009
One hundred and fifty years ago on November 24th this year, Charles Darwin published his seminal book On The Origin of Species. While Darwin’s concepts of evolution through Natural Selection have become political targets of religious zealots everywhere, his scientific work formed the basis of much of what is known today about genetics, one of humanity’s greatest achievements. For about …
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Nov 27 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Obama Breaks Promise on Shutting Gitmo Down by January 2010
* Sarah Palin’s Book Filled With Inaccuracies, Alternative Book “Going Rouge” Offers Analysis
* Empire Notes on Sarah Palin and the Right
* What the H1N1 Virus Mutations Mean
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Nov 26 2009
Note: This program was originally rebroadcast on 11/05/09. Event information is outdated.
Born just three days before the Soviet invasion and occupation of her country, Malalai Joya is in many ways typical of Afghans aged 30 years or younger. They are a generation that has known only war. But in many ways Malalai Joya is an extraordinary person, as her political memoir reveals, risking her …
Nov 26 2009
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass …
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Nov 26 2009
The First National Thanksgiving
Back in the day on November 26th, 1789, the United States observed its first formal national Thanksgiving holiday. President George Washington designated the date when he published his “Thanksgiving Proclamation” in the Massachusetts Centinel. The nation’s first President was responding to Congress who sought a “Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer” to be “observed …
Nov 25 2009
The Presidential elections slated for this Sunday November 29th are going ahead as planned despite the breaking of a US-sponsored peace accord that was meant to reinstate ousted President Manual Zelaya. The United States and Panama are the only two countries so far to support the elections. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint announced earlier this month that he had …
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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