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This week on Uprising:

* Jesse Jackson at the Left Forum

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This past weekend, the largest ever Left Forum took place in downtown New York city, on the campus of Pace University. The annual gathering attracted thousands of progressive activists and thinkers who attended more than a hundred panels on issues like healthcare, the economy, responses to the right, labor, racism, and taking on the Obama presidency. Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar attended the gathering, whose theme of this year was “The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination.” On Friday night, the Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the conference’s opening plenary. He was introduced by Bill Fletcher, Executive Editor of the Black Commentator, and later interviewed by economist Max Fraad Wolff. Here is Bill Fletcher.

GUEST: Reverend Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Activist, Baptist Minister

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

“It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” — Mark Twain