Apr
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2010
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As tax day looms in a few days, city and state budgets continue to reel from the economic downturn. With tax revenues that funded services plummeting mayors and city councilors across the nation struggle to decide agencies to trim, and which to cut altogether. State universities and colleges have furloughed thousands of faculty and administrators while students scramble …
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Apr
12
2010
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The Fort Pillow Massacre
Back in the day on April 12th, 1864, Confederate soldiers under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest carried out a massacre at Fort Pillow. North of Memphis, Tennessee, the former stronghold of the confederacy was the site of a Civil War battle. A union garrison of black and white soldiers held the fort and …
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Apr
12
2010
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R Buckminster Fuller …
Apr
09
2010
We’ll find how a Texas-based oil company is bankrolling efforts to rollback California’s stringent greenhouse gas regulations, and how activists have launched a boycott. And, Consumer Watchdog urges the government to close ten key loopholes in the newly passed healthcare bill, that they say insurers and drug companies can potentially exploit. Plus, an Iraq war veteran, Josh Steiber joins us to discuss the recently leaked 2007 video of Iraqis being shot by soldiers who included …
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Apr
09
2010
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* Thirteen Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
* Mumia Abu Jamal on the End of Empires
* Vijay Prashad on the Origins of India’s Maoist Rebellion
* Black Agenda Report on Somalia
* Activists on DHS’s …
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Apr
09
2010
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Chaos reigns in Kyrgyzstan after an opposition government seized control of the Central Asian nation on Wednesday. Thousands of protesters roiling over government corruption and growing utility bills took over various buildings and levels of government, including the internal security headquarters and a state-run television channel. Dozens of people including the Interior Minister were killed in what is being …
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Apr
09
2010
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In mid-March households began receiving their 2010 U.S. Census form, a 10 question survey touted as the shortest in Census history. A long, multi-faceted government campaign to promote compliance has been underway since the Fall of 2008, and census workers will begin a door-to-door enumeration efforts this month. Every ten years the Census begins amid controversy, and …
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Apr
09
2010
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A tenured professor at the University of California San Diego is in the crosshairs of university administrators and Republican Congressman for his electronic activism. Ricardo Dominguez who received tenure only last year, leads a cutting-edge laboratory called B.A.N.G which stands for Bits. Atoms. Neurons. Genes. The lab is developing what’s called a “Transborder Immigrant Tool,” which could enable migrants …
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Apr
09
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 about Somalia.
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Apr
09
2010
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Marian Anderson Sings On
Back in the day on April 9th, 1939, African-American singer Marian Anderson performed before 75,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The open-air event was not originally on Anderson’s schedule of appearances, but, instead, was organized after she was denied from singing at Washington D.C.’s Constitution Hall. The singer’s manager, Sol Hurok, …
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