“All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.” — Bernard Berenson …

We’ll speak with Fatima Bhutto about Pakistan: the floods, the Zardari government, and the US role. And, Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign will update us on Proposition 8. Plus, Waiting for Lefty, a new play, and this week’s edition of The Right Hook. …

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Conservative radio talk-show host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck has announced his plan to host a national rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28. The rally, titled “Restoring Honor 8/28” will coincide with the 47th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, at which Martin Luther King Jr. made his legendary …

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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington. We’ll spend the hour with author Charles Euchner about this historic march and it’s place in the civil rights movement. …

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This week on Uprising:

* Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change
* Black Agenda Report on Obama’s Pandering to the Right
* Chinese Workers Rise Up for Better Working Conditions
* Supporters of Death Row Inmate Kevin Keith Call for Pardon

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You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train – that was a maxim often said by people’s historian Howard Zinn, implying that there’s no such thing as objectivity in a world full of injustice. The Boston-based professor of History wrote the definitive history of the United States from the perspective of ordinary people, the grassroots, the labor organizers, suffragettes, poor enslaved and …

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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 on Obama’s Pandering to the Right.

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“I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you much go to war for this or that reason- that history is a protective armor against being misled.” — Howard Zinn …

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“Beyond Unfortunate,” “Betrayal,” “Reprehensible,” “Treason.” Those are the words of military officials, members of Congress, and President Obama, prompted by the publication of close to 80,000 leaked classified war documents by WikiLeaks last month. It is the most controversial release of leaked documents since the Pentagon Papers, and in fact, in sheer size and scope, the biggest such leak in US …

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