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The historic East Los Angeles building that for thirty years housed Self-Help Graphics was sold in early July to a private real estate and investment company. The Order of the Sisters of St. Francis, who previously owned the property, transferred the deed to the Los Angeles Archdiocese who then facilitated the sale. The board …

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Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama laid out his Iraq war policy in a New York Times op-ed earlier this week. The Illinois senator described Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki’s call for a timetable for withdrawal “an enormous opportunity.” Describing the Bush Administration’s surge in Iraq as successful, Obama proposes a phased redeployment of U.S. troops …

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This past Monday thousands of health care workers from across California marched in Manhattan Beach for their rights. But they were not protesting a heavy-handed employer – rather they were marching against their own parent union, SEIU. What motivated over 5000 union members to publicly call attention to an internal conflict was a series …

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Advertising her one-woman performance, local artist Monica Palacios, invites you to “Enjoy an evening of wholesome lesbo raunch and experience righteous rants of nationality, sexuality and middle age flab.” With a resume that boasts such solo shows as “Latin Lezbo Comic,” “My Body and Other Parts,” and “A Sexplosion of Tantalizing Tales,” as …

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Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on the Declaration of Iraqi Independence

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

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GUESTS: Roberto Lovato, writer with New American Media, frequent contributor to The Nation, Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association and the executive director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have spent the past week or so courting potential Latino voters ahead of November’s election. The two …

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GUEST: Tom Hayden, former state assembly and senate representative, member of the “Chicago 8,” co-author of several books including Voices of the Chicago Eight
A Generation on Trial

Yesterday we played you part 1 of a conversation I recently had with activist and writer Tom Hayden, about the tumultuous sixties, and the seminal moment when …

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Five years ago to this day Uprising was born. On July 15, 2003, we broadcast the very first edition of this program featuring, among other things, an interview with Alfred McCoy about the revised edition of his historic book, The Politics of Heroin. It had been over a year since I began working …

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GUEST: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator of the Green Party

Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party nomination this weekend at the convention in Chicago. She picked hip hop artist and activist Rosa Clemente as her Vice Presidential running mate. McKinney received 313 out of 532 votes cast on Saturday. She ran against …

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GUEST: Tom Hayden, former state assembly and senate representative, member of the “Chicago 8,” co-author of several books including Voices of the Chicago Eight
A Generation on Trial

While the Green Party convention was in Chicago this past weekend, the windy city was the site of a much more explosive party convention 40 years ago. …

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