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GUEST: Judy Dugan, Research Director at the Foundation for Tax payer and Consumer Rights

According to the California Energy Commission, motorists in this state paid an average of $2.81 per gallon of petrol at the pump in 2006. Gas prices in the state, which peaked at $3.31 in May 2006, surpassed an inflation-adjusted record set twenty-five years …

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Neighborhood activists all over Southern California hold regular peace vigils to end the war in Iraq. Each week we announce just some of the 50 plus vigils that are taking place. Complete listings of all the vigils are available at www.neighborsforpeaceandjustice.org or www.peacevigils.com.

On Fridays in Burbank
5:30-7pm
on the corner of Palm and San Fernando
the email contact is burbankpeace@sbcglobal.net

On Fridays in Ojai
5 to 7 PM
Libbey Park,at the …

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GUEST: Steve Hendricks, freelance investigative reporter and author of “The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country.”

On February 24th 1976, the body of Anna Mae Aquash was discovered in the Badlands of South Dakota. Aquash was a member of AIM, the American Indian Movement. The FBI claimed that …

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GUEST: Patricia Isasa, torture survivor from Argentina

Luis Gerez, a trial witness in a human rights abuse case in Argentina recently went missing. The case stems from the 1966-73 military dictatorship in Argentina. Two days after he went missing, Gerez was found after having been abducted, badly beaten and burned with cigarettes. Argentine President …

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GUEST: Arash Norouzi, founder of The Mossadegh Project

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that Iran would not retreat from its right to nuclear technology and that a United Nations resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was “invalid.” The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on December 23 to impose sanctions on Iran’s trade in sensitive nuclear …

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GUEST: Jim Motavalli, Editor of E/The Environmental Magazine

With the new year around the corner, we end today’s show taking a look at the state of the planet’s environment. Among the coverage we’ve done on Uprising this year has been the British Stern report on the economic impact of climate change, a look at whether …

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GUEST: Eve Ensler, award winning playwright of the Vagina Monologues, founder of V-Day, and author of “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”

At a time when the words “Orange Alert” have entered our daily lexicon, and the Bush administration’s “war on terror” has turned into a “war of terror,” acclaimed playwright …

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

This week’s commentary is called “Somalia Victimized by U.S., Ethiopia and Their Warlord Allies.” Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …