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November 21, 2003
Economic Justice: FTAA Resistance, Predatory Lending 101, and More
On this edition of Rise Up Radio:
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- youth news;
- live reports and from Miami, where thousands protested against the ministerial meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which seeks to turn to whole hemisphere into a giant sweatshop;
- updates on the legal situation of those who were arrested in the brutal police repression of the Anarchist People of Color fundraiser that Critical Resistance held last Saturday in Brooklyn;
- a discussion of local predatory lending and how it reflects the same logic as the predatory lending of international financial institutions. We also review positive alternatives to these community-destroying financial institutions.
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Green The Ghetto Tour of South Bronx / Update on Civil Rights
On this edition of Rise Up Radio we speak with:
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- Manuela Arciniegas on Sustainable South Bronx's Green the Ghetto bus tour;
- Yanilda Gonzalez of the NYCLU in support of NYC City Council Resolution 909, and the latest special registration demo;
- LeeChe Leong from the NYCLU's reproductive rights project, who is organizing against the national ban on partial birth abortion;
- Rosa Clemente on the upcoming National Hip-Hop Convention
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Civil Rights and the NYPD
On this edition of Rise Up Radio we speak with:
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- Transafrica Forum, about their Rebuilding Resistance youth + student conference;
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, about their campaign to stop illegal search and frisk;
- Ya-Ya Network and Youth Organizers United, about a recently-filed lawsuit challenging NYPD policy barring leafleting and petitioning on public sidewalks near public schools.
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