Jul 30 2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Two Perspectives on the WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary: A Journalist and a Veteran
* Black Agenda Report on the WikiLeaks Controversy
* Judge Strikes Down Parts of SB 1070 on Eve of Implementation
* Congress Reduces Sentencing Disparity in Crack …
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Jul 30 2010
Discussions have begun among US Senators on the US nuclear treaty with Russia known as START or the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The potential agreement between the two countries calls for the reduction of their respective stockpiles down to 1,550 strategic warheads within the next seven years. START has yet to be ratified by the U.S. Senate and …
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Jul 30 2010
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have made farmworkers eligible to receive overtime pay after 8 hours a day, or 40 hours a week. The bill would also have given farmworkers the right to take one day off a week. Since 1972 California farmworkers have been eligible for overtime pay after 10 hours …
Jul 30 2010
The 2008 US Farm Bill is set to expire in two years, and the agricultural community has already started to mobilize for substantive changes to be made in the 2012 version of the bill. To date, the passage of the farm bill that occurs every four or five years has elicited little public attention, allowing farm-state legislators and corporate …
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Jul 30 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 WikiLeaks Controversy.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
Jul 30 2010
“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” — Jacques Cousteau …
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Jul 29 2010
We’ll speak with acclaimed film producer Lawrence Bender about his new documentary Countdown to Zero opening this weekend in theaters. And, the United Farm Workers launches a new campaign called Take Our Jobs. Plus, activists begin organizing around the 2012 Farm Bill to eliminate subsidies to giant agri-businesses. And this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Jul 29 2010
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan about the latest film he has produced, Peepli Live, about farmer suicides in India.
Jul 29 2010
In response to a July 6th motion filed by the Department of Justice, a Federal judge yesterday blocked key provisions of Arizona’s controversial Immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, from going into effect today. Portions of the law still became enforceable law as of 12:01 am this morning, but the allowed provisions will not significantly change Arizona’s existing laws. The order …
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Jul 29 2010
Yesterday we heard part 1 of my interview with Bollywood’s top movie star Aamir Khan about the new film he’s produced, Peepli Live. The film is directed and written by Anusha Rizwi and tackles the topic of farmer suicides in India. Peepli Live is set in an Indian village named Peepli where a young debt-burdened farmer named Natha is talked …
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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