Apr 23 2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Arizona Reels in Wake of Anti-Immigrant Law, ICE Raids
* Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining The Environmental Revolution
* Black Agenda Report about Wall Street Crimes
* Conversation with Dick Gregory, Civil Rights Activist, Comedian
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Apr 23 2010
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields. We’ll spend the hour with journalist and writer Charles Bowden on his new book, about the Drug war, NAFTA, immigration, and state violence. …
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Apr 23 2010
President Obama began speaking with potential Supreme Court nominees this week in the hopes of announcing his pick in a few weeks. With Justice John Paul Stevens’ recent announcement of his retirement from the Supreme Court, Obama has been presented with a second opportunity to make his mark on the nation’s highest court since becoming President. As with …
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Apr 23 2010
Americans lost two civil rights giants this month: Dorothy Height who worked tirelessly for the rights of African Americans especially Black women, was President of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years, and attempted to bridge women’s rights and civil rights. She died this week at age 98. And the Reverend Benjamin Hooks, a trusted associate …
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Apr 23 2010
This Saturday marks the 56th birthday of political prisoner and death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Activists across the United States from Texas to Washington D.C. are marking the occasion by organizing various events aimed at raising awareness of the status of his case. Abu-Jamal, who has been imprisoned on Pennsylvania’s death row since 1982 for the shooting death …
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Apr 23 2010
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about Wall Street Crimes.
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Apr 23 2010
Operation Dewey Canyon III
Back in the day on April 23rd, 1971, the peaceful week of anti-war protests dubbed as “Operation Dewey Canyon III,” came to a close. Organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the actions in Washington D.C. played of the code name of two U.S. invasions into Laos. Calling itself a ‘limited incursion into the …
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Apr 23 2010
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.” –- Alexander Solzhenitsyn …
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Apr 22 2010
We’ll discuss the President’s efforts to pick a Supreme Court nominee with Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, and examine who the real judicial activists are. And, a conversation with civil rights activist and political comedian Dick Gregory. Plus, on the 56th birthday of political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, we’ll hear a conversation between Abu Jamal and Cornel West. …
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Apr 22 2010
The Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday cleared a path toward creating a financial reform bill when it overwhelmingly voted in favor of regulating the complex system of financial trading known as derivatives. The vote follows one on a similar bill in the Senate Banking Committee. This now means there will be a likely merger of two financial reform bills for …
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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