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This week on Uprising:

* Violence Resurges in Oaxaca, Mexico
* Empire Notes on “Business as Usual in Iraq”
* Rupert Murdoch Eyes the Wall Street Journal
* Black Agenda Report on Pakistan
* Just Security: An Alternative Foreign Policy Framework

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Violence Resurges in Oaxaca, Mexico

GUEST: Shannon Young and Vladmir Flores, Correspondents for Free Speech Radio News

Earlier this week, fighting erupted between protestors and police forces in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. At least forty people were injured and twenty police wounded in the worst outbreak of violence since November of last year. The confrontation with police occurred when demonstrators and supporters of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, or APPO, attempted to march to the city’s stadium to hold an alternative “Popular Guelaguetza festival.” Oaxacan activists say that the state sponsored week-long Guelaguetza festival, which is set to begin next Monday, July 23rd and is also a major tourist attraction, has become too commercialized. The alternative festival was organized by APPO and the teacher’s union. Activists vow to continue the boycott of the state-sponsored Guelaguetza and seek to reclaim the cultural festival. Last year’s Guelaguetza was canceled due to the social strife that took place in Oaxaca that sought to oust Governor Ulises Ruiz.

Black Agenda Report on Pakistan

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

This week’s commentary is about Pakistan. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

Rupert Murdoch Eyes the Wall Street Journal

GUEST: Tim Karr, Campaign Director of Free Press

Last Wednesday, the Board of Directors of Dow Jones voted to approve Rupert Murdoch’s five billion dollar News Corporation bid to acquire the company. The proposed sale still needs the approval of the Bancroft family stockholders who will meet this coming Monday. Descendants of Clarence Barron who bought the Wall Street Journal from its founders, the Bancroft family will have several days to decide whether or not to sell the company. Six weeks prior to the board’s approval, the Bancroft family had initially rejected the proposed five billion dollar deal. Should News Corporation acquire the Dow Jones Company, Rupert Murdoch would control the Wall Street Journal which has the second highest circulation among newspapers in the US. The online edition of the Wall Street Journal boasts the highest paid subscription rates in the world. The Dow Jones Company as a whole has seen an increase in revenue, advertising and subscriptions in the past year. Media reform activists decry any News Corp – Dow Jones deal as detrimental to media democracy and ethical journalism.

For more information, visit www.stopbigmedia.com.

Empire Notes on “Business as Usual in Iraq”

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 called “Business as Usual in Iraq”

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

Just Security: An Alternative Foreign Policy Framework

GUESTS: John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, Erik Leaver, policy outreach director, Foreign Policy in Focus, Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace Action

The Institute for Policy Studies just released a detailed proposal on US Security, based on what they call “an alternative foreign policy framework.” Given the US’s role in global politics as in the destructive war on terror, the domination of international trade, as the lead producer of greenhouse gases, and the lead proliferator of weapons, it’s time, say the proposal’s authors, to “start a new relationship between the US and the world.” The report is called “Just Security” and offers an integrated approach to foreign policy that avoids relying either on hard power or advocating complete global disengagement. John Feffer, Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus is the lead author of the report. More than a dozen other analysts contributed to the report, including Phyllis Bennis, Nadia Martinez, Sarah Anderson, Daphne Wysham, and others.

Download the report here: http://ips-dc.org/reports/070608-justsecurity.pdf

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

“With its focus on fighting wars, the Bush administration has insisted just on security. We must focus instead on a just security, because there can be no real security without justice.” — from the proposal, “Just Security,” by Foreign Policy in Focus