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For the more than 60 years that Pacifica Radio has been on the air, producing countless hours of historic, ground-breaking, and visionary programming, the Pacifica Radio Archives has carefully stored this material on reels, cassette tapes, and today CDs and hard drives. This repository of historic audio documenting in particular, progressive movements for change, is one of the nation’s most extensive. Indeed it is …

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“A country without a memory is a country of madmen.” — George Santayana …

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An hour-long focus on women’s history from the Pacifica Radio Archives, part of the Summer School Campus Campaign, featuring the voices of Rosa Parks, Dolores Huerta, Angela Davis, Bella Abzug, Rachel Carson and others. …

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A record-breaking one million homes may be lost to foreclosure by the end of this year. In the first half of 2010 mortgage lenders repossessed over 500,000 homes, and 1.7 million households were served with notices of foreclosure. In February 2009 President Obama announced that his administration’s economic agenda included a voluntary loan modification program. The program is voluntary …

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The 18th International AIDS Conference began yesterday in Vienna. This year’s conference, entitled “Rights Here, Right Now,” emphasizes gender sensitive, evidence and human-rights based HIV/AIDS interventions. In 2005, the Group of 8 (or G8) countries in their meeting committed to universal access to HIV treatment. However, that goal is far from being met. Additionally with the approaching 2015 …

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After more than 75 civilians were killed in Uganda last week, police in Kenya have announced the arrest of several men believed to be affiliated with a radical Somali organization that took credit for the massacre. The group, Al Shabab, has been linked to Al Qaeda. They announced responsibility soon after the double suicide bombing of a restaurant and rugby …

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“We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” — Serj Tankian …

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This week on Uprising:

* Right Wing Special Interests Promise to Flood November Elections with Hundreds of Millions of $$
* Black Agenda Report on Obama Caving to the Rich
* As Global Heat Wave Scorches, Will Climate Scientists Step Up to the Plate?
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Organized labor holds big banks accountable as the foreclosure crisis continues unabated. We’ll speak with the Nation Magazine’s Katrina Vanden Huevel. And, President Obama announces the US’s first ever formal strategy on combating HIV/AIDS ahead of an international conference in Vienna. Plus, the US promises to redouble its efforts in the so-called War on Terror in the wake of the deadly suicide bombings in Uganda. …

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In the lead-up to November’s mid-term elections right-leaning interest groups have promised to spend a record 300 million dollars on election related activities. The National Rifle Association has pledged $20 million, and Karl Rove’s organization, American Crossroads, is the second highest potential donor, promising $52 million dollars. The top pledge of $75 million dollars comes from the US Chamber of …

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