Jan
11
2013
President Obama has nominated his Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, as Federal Treasury Secretary, replacing Timothy Geither, also a former Chief of Staff. Lew is former head of the Office on Management and Budget under both Presidents Clinton and Obama. He has also worked at the State Department and on Wall Street, as part of Citigroup’s “Wealth Management Branch.”
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Jan
11
2013
Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence who had scheduled a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as well as Governor General David Johnston after staging a hunger strike since December 11th is now uncertain whether she will meet them. The meeting was scheduled for today to discuss indigenous land and water issues. Chief Spence had written to Queen …
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Jan
11
2013
Recent revelations of FBI surveillance of Occupy Wall Street activists are reminiscent of the rampant government surveillance of 60s era American activists, particularly members of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party was one of the most iconic and militant left organizations in the United States and many former members have, since then written memoirs of their experiences.
Now, …
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Jan
11
2013
Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.
Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.
Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch …
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Jan
11
2013
Gina Villalobos from Los Angeles!
We played the song “Pictures of Pictures” on today’s show.
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Jan
10
2013
NEW DELHI -From Africa’s crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the developing world are hanging in the balance ahead of a legal ruling that will determine whether India’s drug companies can continue to provide cheap versions of many life-saving medicines.
The case — involving Swiss drug maker Novartis AG’s cancer drug Glivec — pits aid groups that argue India plays a vital role as …
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Jan
10
2013
Is temporarily slowing down a website a legal form of protest? Current US law says it isn’t, but hacktivists want the White House to make changes that would force the government to reconsider their witch-hunt against alleged computer criminals.
In the latest WhiteHouse.gov petition to go viral, the Obama administration is asked to make a method of momentarily crippling a website comparable to real word demonstrations, essentially allowing for a whole new legal form of online …
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Jan
10
2013
While the saga of who will attend tomorrow’s meeting between Harper government representatives and First Nations leaders continues, we can be certain that justice will be absent.
For obvious reasons, there will be no justice for the Inuit, as they will not be represented. Nor will there be any justice for the Métis and non-status Indians, who this week won a court battle to have the federal government recognize its obligations toward them, because they aren’t …
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Jan
10
2013
“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.” — Julian Bond …
Jan
10
2013
Friday January 11, 2013 marks the eleventh anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. The notorious facility received its first 20 prisoners on January 11, 2002. In the years since, shocking revelations of prisoner abuse, prisoner suicide and repeated desecrations of the Koran have dogged both the Bush and Obama administrations.
Hector Aristizabal, Los Angeles based activist and a member of the Program for Torture Victims, also …
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