Mar 19 2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Democrats Create Final Push for Healthcare
* Black Agenda Report about Kucinich’s Vote on the Healthcare Bill
* Nation’s Leading Scientists and Economists Deliver Urgent Letter on Global Warming
* Coffee, Tea, Democracy? A Look at the Growing Coffee …
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Mar 19 2010
This past Tuesday was the 7th anniversary of the death of American activist Rachel Corrie who was killed in Gaza on March 16th 2003 while attempting to defend a Palestinian home from being bull dozed. An Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer crushed her to death. Corrie had been present in the Palestinian territories as part of the International Solidarity Movement. A trial on a wrongful death lawsuit …
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Mar 19 2010
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the Afghan War Vote in the House.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Mar 19 2010
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” — Clarence Darrow …
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Mar 18 2010
An in-depth conversation with Palestinian rights activist Huwaida Arraf, about the Free Gaza Movement and more. And, this week’s Black Agenda Report about the Afghan war vote. …
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Mar 18 2010
On Wednesday a field poll revealed that Republican candidate for California Governor Meg Whitman, is more favored than Democrat Jerry Brown. Whitman faces off against Steve Poizner in the Republican primary in June but looks set to easily beat him. However, the California billionairess and former CEO of eBay, has no political record and has spent tens of millions …
Mar 18 2010
Yesterday we heard part 1 of my conversation with Paul Blanc, a Professor of Medicine who holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He’s written the book, How Everyday Products make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace. The book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of …
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Mar 18 2010
“Coffee Partiers might focus more on the threat of concentrated, unaccountable corporate power, while Tea Partiers typically target concentrated unaccountable government power. But see a pattern? Imagine if we realized that the problem is concentrated power itself and joined together to create a democracy accountable to us. Now that would be a powerful brew.” So wrote my guest, …
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Mar 18 2010
“Hope remains only in the most difficult task of all; to reconsider everything from the ground up, so as to shape a living society inside a dying society.” — Albert Camus …
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Mar 17 2010
We’ll take a look at the state of California’s Governor’s race, as Republican candidate Meg Whitman edges in front of Democrat Jerry Brown. And we’ll hear part 2 of my interview with Paul Blanc about how everyday products make people sick. Plus, Frances Moore Lappe joins us to discuss her newest book, “Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, Courage, for the World We Really Want.” …
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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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