Jan 20 2011
In our on-going coverage of public education in the US, we’ve been looking this week at how teachers who report problems are often targeted, retaliated against with negative evaluations, and dismissed. On Tuesday we heard the case of one LA public school teacher who is fighting his dismissal over his complaints that undereducated students were graduating from his school. …
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Jan 20 2011
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Duvalier’s Return To Haiti.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Jan 20 2011
“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.” — K. Patricia Cross …
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Jan 19 2011
We’ll look at what’s behind the return of Haitian dictator Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. And, how a war veteran and green card holder Zahid Muhammad Chaudry is fighting deportation. Plus, part 3 of our three-part series on how teachers are targeted for speaking out. And the Black Agenda Report. …
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Jan 19 2011
The motives of Jared Lee Loughner, the Arizona shooter, remain unclear more than a week after the shooting. The Washington Post reported that 250 federal investigators and 130 local detectives are conducting interviews of anyone who knew Loughner. So far they have spoken to about 300 people, but have not indicated a breakthrough in the case. Loughner is in custody …
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Jan 19 2011
Over 4.8 million homes are in serious delinquency or are in foreclosure, according to a leading trade publication Inside Mortgage Finance. To help homeowners in foreclosure keep their homes, the Obama administration authorized the Home Affordable Modification Program—HAMP—in 2009. HAMP administers home loan modifications for homeowners who can no longer pay their mortgages and meet the government’s qualifications. …
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Jan 19 2011
On yesterday’s program we heard the story of how one local public school teacher, Leonard Isenberg, after more then 20 years of teaching and stellar evaluations, is in dismissal proceedings after he complained that his school was graduating students with inadequate reading and writing skills. For the second installment in Uprising’s three part series on what happens to public …
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Jan 19 2011
The Right Hook, a weekly segment which covers the machinations of the right wing, from the Republican Party to the Tea Party Patriots, and beyond. By Chris Bennett
In the large and still widening wake of the shootings in Tucson, AZ, three moderate Republicans are calling it quits. Republican District chairman Anthony Miller this week announced his …
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Jan 19 2011
“A teacher affects eternity; [s]he can never tell where [her]his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams …
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Jan 18 2011
We’ll hear the story of a local LA County Resident, who, like so many Americans, is facing potential foreclosure through no fault of her own. And, part 2 of our three part series on how public school teachers are targeted for speaking out about corruption and other problems. Plus, Dean Obeidallah, an Arab American comic joins us on to speculate on what would have happened these past two weeks if Jared Lee Loughner was a …
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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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