Dec 03 2010
Weekly Digest – 12/03/10
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This week on Uprising:
* Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Criticizes Deficit Commission Proposals
* WikiLeaks Reveals Embarrassing Details, Confirms US Imperial Arrogance
* Black Agenda Report on Racism Revealed in WikiLeaks Documents
* Lowered Expectations in Cancun Climate Talks
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Julian Assange, the founder of the controversial website WikiLeaks, is now wanted by the International Criminal Police Organization or Interpol for sexual assault charges in Sweden. Assange is in hiding in the UK and is expected to be arrested by British authorities soon. It is unclear if the British government will extradite him to Sweden, the US, or Australia, …
The struggle for social justice is easily romanticized. Nostalgia, or ignorance, leads to tales of energized, dignified mass movements rising from an injustice fully-formed and ready to fight. But this is never the case. The 1934 general strike in San Francisco, Ca was preceded by years of vicious battles for better working conditions. Rosa Parks refused to move to …
Retailers reported that this year electronics purchases were up 3% compared to last year’s Black Friday, post-Thanksgiving shopping mania. Fifty seven percent of shoppers last week purchased some type of electronics, making it the second most popular product after clothing. Of those, 39% bought video game accessories, 37% bought portable MP3 or digital media players, 36% bought video game …
The Senate on Tuesday passed the long-awaited Food Safety Modernization Act by a 73 – 25 vote. The House passed its version of the legislation in 2009. To circumvent the often long reconciliation process, House Democrats are reportedly considering adopting the Senate version in order to ensure it reaches President Obama’s desk for signature before the end of the …
The co-chairs of the President’s Deficit Commission released their much anticipated report yesterday. Former Senator Alan K Simpson and President Clinton’s former chief of staff Erskine Bowles laid out their plan to cut spending including from Medicare and other programs, and to reform the tax code by lowering taxes for everyone including the wealthy and corporations, in order to reduce …
