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GUEST: Peter Krause, lead actor and producer Civic Duty, star of HBO series Six Feet Under

A new film being released this Friday explores the racist fear and paranoia in the immediate aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. Civic Duty stars Peter Krause, best known for his role as Nate Fisher in the HBO …

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GUEST: Michael Halpern, Outreach Coordinator for the Scientific Integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists

A group of concerned scientists have written a letter of protest to the Bush administration regarding its new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act. Signed by 38 environmental ethics specialists and wildlife biologists, the letter takes issue with a …

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… about The U.S. Invasion of Nicaragua (Again!) .

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GUESTS: Geri Silva, Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes, Rose Braz, Campaign Director of Critical Resistance

Last Thursday, California lawmakers approved a 7.4 billion dollar prison reform bill. In the Senate, the bill passed by a 27-10 vote while the Assembly nearly passed it unanimously by a vote of 70-1. Despite the fact that …

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Yesterday’s spirited May Day marches around the US in support of immigrants rights brought out hundreds of thousands of people in various cities. Here in Southern California, about 30,000 people showed up in Downtown LA during the day, while in MacArthur Park, about 15,000 showed up. The march in Santa Ana drew several …

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GUEST: Dan Beeton, International Communications Coordinator with Center for Economic and Policy Research

President Hugo Chavez recently announced his intention to withdraw Venezuela from both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Hugo Chavez has continually blamed the two financial institutions and their austerity policies for perpetuating poverty in Latin America. The move …

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… about The Congo Free State .

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GUESTS: Gloria Saucedo with Hermandad Mexicana, Roosevelt high school students Nelson Hernandez and Vicki Gonzalez, Mexican human rights activist Marta Sanchez, Mexican Congressman with the PDR, Jose Jacques Y Medina, State Senator Gil Cedillo, and undocumented college student Armando Ceja

On May 1st 2007 Uprising broadcast live from the May Day march in Downtown LA from 2-3 pm. Between …

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GUEST: Gerald Lenoir, Coordinator of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration

This past weekend, a 14-member delegation of African Americans toured various border towns around Tucson, Arizona to investigate human rights abuses on both sides of the border. The delegation was sponsored by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), an organization founded to …

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GUEST: Pratap Chatterjee, Managing Editor of Corp Watch and author of Iraq Inc (Seven Stories, 2004)

Kurdish lawmakers in the Iraqi parliament have announced that they will oppose an Iraqi oil law to regulate the nation’s key industry. However, the Kurdish bloc is not large enough to stop parliamentary approval on its own. …

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