“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.” Marya Mannes …

We’ll examine the details of Google and Verizon’s Net Neutrality Pact. And, as the controversy over the city of Bell’s managers continues, an LA grand jury has served subpoenas seeking thousands of documents – we’ll speak with Ruben Vives, one of the LA Times reporters who broke the story. Plus, a new study published in Pediatrics has found that American girls are hitting puberty earlier – we’ll learn why. And this week’s edition of The …

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In China an illegal strike at a car parts factory in June won workers a small pay increase bringing their monthly salary to $29.30 a month. The strike was one of many in an unprecedented wave of worker-initiated labor organizing that has forced the Chinese government to change the way it does business with labor. In Guangdong Province, one …

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Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean announced last week that he will run for President of Haiti. The Haitian born musician has lived in United States since age 9, and became famous in the 1990s as a member of the politically conscious hip-hop trio, The Fugees. While he is best known as a musician, 37 year old Jean, has been increasingly …

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The Senate has just unanimously passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, approving 4.5 billion dollars to fund free school meals and improve the nutritional standards for food served in schools. The bill is being called “deficit neutral”, meaning its funding will be made possible by cuts to other programs. Ironically, most of the cuts will come from …

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“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.” — Meryl Streep …

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This week on Uprising:

* Howard Zinn on the 65th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima
* International Cluster Bomb Ban Goes Into Effect
* Black Agenda Report on Representative Maxine Waters
* BP Using Prison Labor to Clean Up Gulf Coast

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We’ll examine the quiet revolution sweeping across China as workers launched waves of protest for labor rights this summer. And, Kim Ives will share his opinion on Wyclef Jean’s bid for Haiti’s presidency. Plus, the Senate just passed the Child Nutrition Act that could bring sweeping changes to school lunches across the nation. …

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A clash on the Israel-Lebanon border left at least two Lebanese soldiers, an Israeli soldier and a Lebanese reporter dead on Tuesday, August 3rd. The clash started when Lebanese troops fired at an Israeli army unit that was cutting down trees that could serve as cover to fighters near the UN-administered border between Lebanon and Israel. The border, referred to …

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Sixty-five years ago today the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, in Japan. A hundred and forty thousand people, mostly civilians, were killed instantly. A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, instantly killing 70,000 people. At least 130,000 more Japanese died of radiation poisoning within 5 years. Before his death …

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