Jul 23 2010
We’ll find out what’s behind the latest spat between Venezuela and Colombia in the wake of Colombian accusations of President Chavez harboring rebel leaders. And, will consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren be named to head the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Agency? Plus, an update on new efforts to buy back the South Central Farm on the corner of 41st and Alameda. …
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Jul 23 2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Straight Talk on the Shirley Sherrod Controversy
* Black Agenda Report on the NAACP and Obama
* Anti-Choice Groups Co-opt Civil Rights Legacy
* The Real Story Behind the US-UK Special Relationship
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Jul 23 2010
House representative Barbara Lee said yesterday that the government was being “held hostage” by right wing shock jocks and Fox News. The chair of the Congressional Black Caucus was adding her views to the frenzy over the recent firing of Shirley Sherrod, director of rural development in Georgia for the USDA. The scandal began when right wing blogger Andrew Breitbart …
Jul 23 2010
Nearly a thousand hotel workers in 15 cities around the country organized coordinated acts of civil disobedience yesterday to protest staff cuts, reduced hours, and generally poor working conditions. Here in southern California, dozens of workers from UNITE-HERE Local 11 gathered outside the Hyatt Andaz West Hollywood and blocked traffic. Sixty three people were arrested. Since the Hyatt hotel …
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Jul 23 2010
Maria Bermudez grew up in East L.A., a Chicana with musical talent. Seventeen years ago she moved to Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, to study Flamenco music. In the early 1990s she founded the flamenco company Sonidos Gitanos, “Gypsy Sounds”. Bermudez and Sonidos Gitanos have toured North America and Europe, including many trips back to her native city of Los …
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Jul 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 the NAACP and President Obama.
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Jul 23 2010
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity.” — Octavio Paz …
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Jul 23 2010
We’ll explore the on-going controversy over Shirley Sherrod and what she did or didn’t say and what it says about US race relations. And, we’ll bring you a report from the streets of West Hollywood in front of the Hyatt hotel where hotel workers risk arrest for their rights. And, Maria Bermudez, East-LA based flamenco dancer and women’s rights activist joins us in studio in advance of her performance at the Ford. Plus this week’s …
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Jul 22 2010
British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President Obama this week in a high-profile visit to the US. Among the issues discussed were the war in Afghanistan where the UK has about 9,000 troops. Both Obama and Cameron are facing constituencies that are increasingly skeptical of the war. In fact, as news reporters fill pages about the so-called “special relationship” …
Jul 22 2010
The Guttmacher Institute recently found that over 900 measures related to reproductive health and rights were introduced in 45 states during the first half of this year. Not surprisingly many of these were attempts to restrict access to abortion services by prohibiting health insurance plans from providing coverage for the procedures. Arizona and South Carolina this year …
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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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