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GUEST: Tim Robbins, academy award winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist, and musician. Robbins is director of “1984” for the Actor’s Gang

In 1948, British writer George Orwell wrote his seminal novel Nineteen Eighty Four, about a future world where the fictional-sounding country of Oceania was at war. As part of this war, the all-too-real …

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GUEST: Dave Alberswerth, Senior Policy Adviser for the Wilderness Society

President Bush gave a speech last week in which he called for more domestic oil drilling in order to relieve record high gas prices. As part of his energy proposal, Bush called on Congress to lift a 27 year ban on offshore oil …

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The world’s growing economy continues to be dependent on oil. Meanwhile, the supply is running out and the U.S. the US is fighting a war in Iraq to secure the free flow of oil. In fact, this dependence on Middle East oil is a historical …

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This week on Uprising:

* In light of California’s historic Supreme Court hearing, we broadcast a same-sex wedding on the air: Linda Martinez and Regina Rodriguez, a couple of 8 years, get married on radio.

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GUESTS: Linda Martinez and Regina Rodriguez, the Reverend Neil Thomas of the Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles, and Jenny Pizer, Senior Counsel for Lambda Legal, Mary Martinez, Linda’s mother, Joseph Rodriguez, Gina’s father

In May of this year, the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage …

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This week, hundreds of gay and lesbian couples across California lined up in front of their County Registrar’s offices to obtain marriage licenses. The state’s Supreme Court in May overturned a ban on same-sex marriage, making California the second state in …

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Global Warming, Capitalism, and Our Way of Life

Record breaking storms this past month have caused floods in Iowa and five other states forcing thousands from their homes and killing at least 22 people across the mid-west. The rising Mississippi River broke …

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Winter Soldier Hearings

This March, dozens of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars gathered in Maryland to offer first hand accounts of war. Veterans gave heartfelt accounts of what they had seen, what they had been told to do, and what they had done. KPFK and Pacifica …

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With the economy in recession, with home prices falling, and gas and food prices rising, today we focus on consumption, particularly the one time of the year when consumption is at its highest – the holiday season. This past Christmas, intrepid film maker, Morgan Spurlock …

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Within days of declaring himself the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, Senator Barack Obama addressed the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), promising the state of Israel 30 billion additional dollars in U.S. aid over the next decade on top of the 140 billion dollars it has received so …

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