January 10, 2005
TOPIC: Law Enforcement to Enforce Immigration Law
GUESTS: Hamid Khan, Executive Director of South Asian Network, Ranjana Natarajan, attorney with the ACLU
On the agenda for tomorrow’s regular meeting of the LA County Board of Supervisors is the following item – A Recommendation by the LA County Sheriff’s Office to “Approve Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security to allow the Sheriff's Department to perform certain immigration
enforcement functions, namely, to conduct interviews of foreign born inmates in the County
jails, allowing the interviewers to access the Deportable Alien Control System, which is a
federal computer database, at no cost to County, to determine if the foreign born inmate is a
convicted criminal alien or a previously deported criminal alien”.
TOPIC: Empire Notes
GUESTS: Rahul Mahajan, publisher of Empire Notes
Next is our weekly commentary, Empire Notes, by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and the New Crusade. Empire Notes, are exclusive to Uprising. Today’s commentary is about the Salvador Option.
Visit Empire Notes online at empirenotes.org.
TOPIC: Political Commentary
GUESTS: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner whose commentaries can be heard regularly on KPFK. Today we bring you a commentary by Mumia entitled “Fundamentalism’s War on Women.”
TOPIC: The politics of aid in Aceh
GUESTS: John Miller, East Timor Action Network
The December 26 earthquake which triggered the tsunami occurred just off the coast of Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh is suffering the worst of the damage, at least 100,000 people have died and countless are homeless. The East Timor Action Network is collecting contributions from people in the United States who want to give direct aid to local grassroots and humanitarian organizations in Aceh. This money is being sent directly to Acehnese groups whose usual work is with displaced persons and children. Now that their entire province has become victims of the tsunami, these groups are providing emergency humanitarian aid to those most in need, bypassing the politics and constraints that challenge governments and international organizations.
ETAN will forward all donations to grassroots humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Aceh. Mail checks payable to ETAN to ETAN/Aceh Relief, PO Box 15774, Washington, DC 20003-0774. (Put Aceh in the memo line.) Online donations can be made at www.etan.org.
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