Jan
25
2010
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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 called Haiti Aid as Invasion.
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Jan
25
2010
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The Passaic Strike
Back in the day on January 25th, 1926, the Passaic Strike commenced after demands made by wool and silk workers were ignored. With a workforce comprised of Southern and Eastern European immigrants, the mills in Passaic, New Jersey were infamous for their low wages, dangerous work conditions, and anti-union espionage. When the Vice President of …
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Jan
25
2010
“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.” — Alexis de Tocqueville …
Jan
22
2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Supreme Court Opens Flood Gates for Corporate Influence
* Why the Democrats Lost Massachusetts
* Black Agenda Report on Haiti Aid as Invasion
* Andrej Grubacic on Organizing in the Age of Obama
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Jan
22
2010
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St. Petersburg’s Bloody Sunday
Back in the day on January 22nd, 1905, hundreds of workers were killed in a Winter Palace massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Known to history as “Bloody Sunday” an unarmed mass procession of more than 150,000 people had come to present the regime of Tsar Nicholas II with a petition of demands. Led by …
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Jan
21
2010
We’ll find out how women and girls are surviving the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. And we’ll examine the Supreme Court decision to end long-standing historical limits on corporate funding of political campaigns and how a potential constitutional amendment could help preserve democracy. Plus, Professor Andrej Grubacic joins me in studio to discuss political organizing in the Age of Obama. And this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
Jan
21
2010
Two thousand additional U.S. Marines are set to arrive in Haiti today under the pretext of assisting humanitarian relief efforts in the earthquake-ravaged nation. Diverted from deployments in the Persian Gulf and in Africa, the contingent of troops boarded three naval ships yesterday in North Carolina and will join two thousand marines that have already come ashore earlier this week. …
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Jan
21
2010
While most Californians count themselves lucky to live in a state that leads the nation in health standards such widespread organic farming practices and strict vehicle emissions standards, why is it that Californians also have the highest concentration of toxic flame retardant chemicals in their bodies than people in any other state? That’s because in 1972, state lawmakers passed …
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Jan
21
2010
The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the entire world, and also the largest absolute number of imprisoned people in the world. California has the largest prison system in the country, with notoriously overcrowded prisons. Nearly three years ago two inmates from Lancaster State Prison wrote to Uprising to inform us of the danger of losing …
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Jan
21
2010
Navajo Community College Opens its Doors
Back in the day on January 21st, 1969, the Navajo Community College opened its doors to students for classes. Founded the year before, the postsecondary educational institution was the first in the United States to be established and controlled by natives themselves. The idea for the two-year college was conceived as a direct …
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