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This week on Uprising:

* Nigerian Militants Step Up Activity in Anticipation of Presidential Inauguration
* Empire Notes on Azmi Bisharra and the Israeli Ethnocracy
* Cable News Shows Overwhelmingly White and Male
* Black Agenda Report on Andrew Young and Paul Wolfowitz
* Can We Talk About Race? Conversation with Spelman College President, Beverly Daniel Tatum

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Nigerian Militants Step Up Activity in Anticipation of Presidential Inauguration

GUEST: Reverend Nnmio Bassey, Director of Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, Roxanne Lawson, International Policy Campaigner with Friends of the Earth USA

Property damage to oil infrastructure in Nigeria has escalated since last month’s controversial elections in which Umaru Yar’Adua was elected to the presidency. The elections have received massive criticism for reports of ballot fraud, voter intimidation, bribery, and other forms of corruption. Analysts believe the corruption to be the work of ruling party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and current president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Yar’Adua is also seen by many as Obasanjo’s “puppet.” Since then, various militant groups have increased activity, bombing oil refineries and pipelines and kidnapping oil factory workers from foreign companies such as Chevron and Agip. Recently 4 US oil workers were kidnapped on the heels of the release of 11 other Korean and Phillipino workers. To date no one kidnapped has been harmed. One militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has stated its demand for redistribution of oil-wealth to the Nigerian people, most of whom live in poverty. They have committed to continuing attacks in anticipation of Yar’Adua’s inauguration on May 29.

For more information, visit www.foe.org.

Empire Notes on Azmi Bisharra and the Israeli Ethnocracy

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Azmi Bisharra and the Israeli Ethnocracy.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

Cable News Shows Overwhelmingly White and Male

GUEST: Paul Waldman, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, author of “Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservatives’ Success”

Earlier this week, Media Matters for America released a report that found cable news networks to be severely lacking in racial and gender diversity. The report, “Locked Out: The Lack of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Continues,” examined prime time programs on three major networks: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Among the shows profiled were MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” and CNN’s “The Situation Room.” “Locked Out,” analyzed the guests on the three major networks in the time before, during and after the Don Imus controversy. While there was a slight increase in gender and ethnic diversity during the week of the Imus controversy, white males overwhelmingly dominated before and even after the controversial issue. Among the report’s other key findings is that Latino voices were underrepresented. In fact, of a total of 13 guest appearances by Latinos, six of them were by a single guest: Geraldo Rivera. Additionally, cable news hosts from 4 p.m. to midnight were all white and overwhelmingly male.

For more information visit www.mediamatters.org.

The report is available here: http://mediamatters.org/items/200705070003?f=h_top

Black Agenda Report on Andrew Young and Paul Wolfowitz

GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is on Andrew Young and Paul Wolfowitz. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

Can We Talk About Race?

GUEST: Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College in Atlanta, and author of “Can we Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation”

Can we Talk About Race? That’s the central question that Beverly Daniel Tatum asks in her new book. Tatum is the President of Spelman College, the oldest continuing historically black college for women. In this new book, “Can we Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation,” published by Beacon Press, she addresses some of the most important questions on race in today’s America, including the relationship between race and education, the return to school re-segregation, the role of higher education in bridging racial divides, and much more. Tatum’s earlier book was “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”

Click here for more information about Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book:
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=3284

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King Jr.