“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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KPFK’s Spring Into Summer Fund Drive is nearly over! Today is the last full day of fundraising for the station, and the second to last day for the morning shows. Uprising is happy to bring our listeners a one-of-a-kind, only available through your favorite radio station, big, beautiful Thank You! gift today – The Best of Uprising Pack. The pack includes our snazzy 4GB memory stick, emblazoned with the KPFK logo and stuffed with new talks by some of our favorite Uprising guests including Chris Hedges, John Nichols, Sasha Lilley, Gabor Mate, Malalai Joya, and Noam Chomsky. It also includes the Building a Powerful series, a handful of some of Sonali’s favorite extended interviews, and the entire Wikileaks Gitmo Files in pdf. format. In addition, those who pledge for the pack will get the 5 most popular DVDs …

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.” — Dorothy Day

*Congratulations to Uprising listener Courtney from Los Angeles for winning our Criterion Collection Sweepstakes*

On Thursday May 26th, Uprising everyone who donates to KPFK between 8-9 am PST will be eligible for a special sweepstakes prize – 6 special-edition Criterion Collection DVDs PLUS a box-set of 7 American classics for a total of 13 DVDs.

The films are: from the America Lost and Found Box Set: Head; Easy Rider; Five Easy Pieces; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place; The Last Picture Show; The King of Marvin Garndes. Plus, Diabolique; Fellini’s Amarcord; Sweet Smell of Success; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator; and The Times of Harvey Milk. This special collection of DVDs is worth nearly $350.

Special thanks to The Criterion Collection and our friends at Image Entertainment!!! All titles are available at Amoeba Records in Hollywood (KPFK’s favorite record store!!). …

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Of the many concerning developments in food and agriculture over recent years, one stands out as being particularly perplexing and disturbing. It is the widespread disappearance of honey bee colonies throughout the United States that has come to be known as Colony Collapse Disorder. The phenomenon began to make headlines about 5 years ago. Bee keepers reported healthy colonies vanishing seemingly overnight, with no clues left behind as to what drove the bees away. According to the USDA an average of 30% of managed honey bee colonies failed in the years 2006 through 2011. Some individual bee keepers have lost close to 50% of their colonies. The causes of, and remedies for, Colony Collapse Disorder are explored in the new film, Vanishing of the Bees. The filmmakers travel around the United States in search of answers, …

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” — Wendell Berry

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Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He was at the New York Times for 15 years and was part of the team of writers that won the Pulitzer prize in 2002 for that paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute and a columnist for Truthdig.com. Chris Hedges’ acclaimed books include “War is a Force that Gives us Meaning,” “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,” “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,” and “The Death of the Liberal Class. His latest book, just published by Truthdig, is called The World As it Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human …

“I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible or in what I can personally accomplish, but in the faith that battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning and ultimately our freedom.” — Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges on The World As it Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress…

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One of the nation’s leading prosecutors, Vincent Bugliosi, has a new book called ‘The Divinity of Doubt: The God Question.’ As the title suggests, Bugliosi tackles the controversial subject of God, the Christian faith, and atheism. Claiming that there is no way to ever know whether there is indeed a God, and that there is also no way to know whether there is not a God, Bugliosi makes the case for Agnosticism – that the only logical approach to God is to assert that there is no way of knowing whether God exists. He lays special emphasis on the Christian faith, pointing out glaring contradictions about the existence of God through the concepts of an all-knowing, all-powerful being, as well as the power of prayer and whether humans have free will. But he also takes issue with …