Jan 08 2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Bloody Year Beginning Threatens Obama’s Afghanistan Policy
* Empire Notes: Summing Up Obama
* Group Calls on Congress to Reinstate the Estate Tax
* Black Agenda Report on Wells Fargo and the Black Community
* Rare Conversation with Iranian Labor …
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Jan 08 2010
A little over a year ago, on January 1, 2009, a young Black man was fatally shot by a white police officer in San Francisco’s East Bay. Unarmed, and with his stomach to the floor, twenty two year old Oscar Grant was shot in the back by a BART police officer at a subway station in Oakland on …
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Jan 08 2010
President Obama started 2010 with only a 50% job approval rating, down 18% from a year ago when he took office. More than three quarters of the non-white population still has a high opinion of him, compared to only 41% of whites. Similarly younger women are more likely to like what the president is doing at 58% compared to …
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Jan 08 2010
Kevin MacDonald, a noted white supremacist and psychology professor at Cal State Long Beach, recently became the director of the newly formed American Third Position Party. As a revealing three-part series by KPFK programmer Gustavo Arellano in the OC Weekly has illustrated, the tenured academic regularly espouses anti-Semitic, anti-gay and anti-immigrant rhetoric in his work and public appearances. MacDonald …
Jan 08 2010
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Wells Fargo and the Black Community.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Jan 08 2010
Louisiana Slave Uprising
Back in the day on January 8th, 1811, the largest slave revolt in U.S. history occurred in Louisiana as Charles Deslondes led an insurgent band of hundreds towards the city of New Orleans. Starting in Saint Charles and Saint James Parish in Louisiana, the rebelling slaves marched from plantation to plantation along the eastern bank …
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Jan 08 2010
“Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.” — George Bernard Shaw …
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Jan 07 2010
We’ll learn about the Los Angeles trial of the alleged murderer of a young black man from Oakland named Oscar Grant one year ago – Journalist Thandiszwe Chimurenga will join us in studio. And why a Long Beach Professor has formed a new white power party here in Southern California. Plus, part two of our conversation with journalist Sasha Abramsky about his new book Inside Obama’s Brain. And, this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Jan 07 2010
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” — Charles de Montesquieu …
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Jan 07 2010
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his final State of the State address yesterday before lawmakers in Sacramento. In setting an agenda for his last year in office, the Governor outlined job creation as his number one priority. In a state where unemployment continues to hover above twelve percent, Schwarzenegger outlined a five hundred million dollar plan including funding job …
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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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