Dec
04
2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Obama Embraces War Presidency
* Empire Notes on Obama’s Afghanistan Speech
* Hopes Dim Over Copenhagen and Climate Bill
* Black Agenda Report on Haiti and Honduras
* Rev Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping
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President Barack Obama met recently with the Prime Minister of Myanmar or Burma, a country ruled for 2 decades by a military dictatorship. Burma’s elected leader Aung San Su Kyi remains under house arrest after a controversial trial earlier this year for allegedly breaking the terms of her imprisonment. The meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Thein Sein took …
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04
2009
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the murders of Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton Jr. and Mark Clark in Chicago. After their deaths, with increasing evidence that the police in collusion with the FBI knowingly carried out a raid that ended in murder, a lengthy legal battle ensued. At the heart of that battle was attorney Jeffrey …
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04
2009
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As droves of activists head to Copenhagen, Denmark, to pressure international leaders to take drastic measures on global warming, here in the US, nine Senate Democrats have decided what they would like President Obama to agree to. The Senators include Arlen Specter and other centrist Democrats who wrote a letter to the president suggesting that “all major economies …
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2009
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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 Haiti and Honduras.
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The Murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
Back in the day on December 4th, 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered by the Chicago Police Department. Exactly forty years ago the two members of the Black Panther Party were shot to death during an early morning raid on their apartment. Despite the police having been cleared …
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Dec
04
2009
“We’re in a giant car heading toward a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.” — David Suzuki …
Dec
03
2009
A Burmese activist joins us in a rare conversation about what ordinary people living under dictator-ship want; we’ll speak with Jeffrey Haas, author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, on the 40th anniversary of the murders. And, how Senate Democrats are strong arming Obama on the Copenhagen talks. Plus this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
Dec
03
2009
Today is the Twenty-Fifth anniversary of the worst Industrial Catastrophe in the world which took place in Bhopal, India. On December 3rd, 1984, a toxic gas named methyl isocyanate (MIC) escaped from a pesticide-manufacturing plant operated by the US-based Union Carbide Corporation. Eight thousand of the over 20,000 people who were killed, died instantly while 100,000 more continue to suffer …
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Dec
03
2009
Last Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is considered the most important shopping day of the year. Retailers often pin their hopes of strong annual profit margins on the 24 hour consumerist spree. But this year in the context of a deepening recession, weaker sales showed that fewer people showed up on Black Friday, and those that did were bargain hunting …
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