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* An hour-long special with oil industry watchdog, Antonia Juhasz on her new book, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill.

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Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill

”Unless both oil and those who crave it can be tamed, hell will surely once again come not only to the Gulf but also to the many others where oil lies just beneath the earth’s surface” So writes Antonia Juhasz in the introduction to …

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A 14 year-old is raped, and upon giving birth her illiterate grandmother unknowingly signs away her granddaughter’s right to ever have another child. The state forcibly sterilized the teenager, and she wouldn’t realize it until years later. This story, according to CBS news, is one of many from women who were victims of a dark period in US medical history. Some 60,000 women in 32 states were victims of forced, state imposed sterilization. They were commonly young, poor, and women who the state deemed “promiscuous” or “feeble minded”. Time magazine reports that North Carolina sterilized over 7,000 girls from 1929 through the 1970s. It is the first state to consider financially compensating victims of the practice. However, it’s next to impossible to put a dollar amount on the suffering imposed on victims …

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Yesterday we heard part 1 of a two-part interview with Jordanian journalist and feminist Rana Husseini about her new book, Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman’s Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime. Every year an estimated 5000 women are killed by so-called crimes of honor. It is a practice that links a woman’s sexuality, and often virginity, to the honor of her family and entire community. For more than 15 years, Rana Husseini has worked to uncover the stories of violence against women, and helped to veer both legal and cultural traditions away from this barbaric practice. Her work has led her to discover that so-called honor killings happen all over the world, contrary to the belief that they are restricted to the Arab and Muslim …

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Women make-up the fast growing segment of the American prison population. The number of women incarcerated in the US has increased ten-fold about 11,000 in 1977 to 120,000 by 2010. A staggering 80% of incarcerated women are survivors of domestic violence, rape, and other forms of abuse. A new documentary film, Crime After Crime, explores the double injustice visited upon this demographic through the story of Deborah Peagler. Peagler, a young woman from South Central LA, was incarcerated in 1983 for the murder of Oliver Wilson, her brutally abusive partner. At the time of Debbie Peagler’s trial in the early ’80s, there were no mitigating circumstance rules that allowed the judicial system to take domestic violence into account when sentencing women for the murder of intimate partners. In 2002 a law …

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Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.

Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.

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A Better Life

After Chris Weitz finished directing the latest ‘Twilight’ sequel, he could’ve chosen to make any film he wanted. But instead of some megabudget sci-fi fantasy, Weitz used his cache to make a movie honoring his Mexican roots from a screenplay that had been languishing for 25 years. That movie is ‘A Better Life’, which …

Enjoy three days of special programming on June 27th, 28th, and 29th with former KPFK host and OC Weekly’s Managing Editor, Gustavo Arrellano. Uprising with host Sonali Kolhatkar returns June 30th.

“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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President Obama yesterday delivered a much anticipated speech where he laid out the US withdrawal plan from the war in Afghanistan. As expected, the President confirmed that 10,000 troops will be withdrawn by the end of this year, followed by another 20,000 next year. The nearly decade long war in Afghanistan started in October 2001, with 5,000 “boots on the ground” by September of 2002. That number rose steadily to 30,000 within 6 years. Since President Obama’s prioritization of the war in Afghanistan over the war in Iraq, the number of troops has swelled to its current level of about 100,000 soldiers. Obama’s speech laid out a withdrawal plan that included troop reductions, talks with the Taliban, and a continued reliance on Pakistan as a partner in military operations.

GUEST: Anand …

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Every year an estimated 5000 women are killed by so-called crimes of honor. It is a practice that links a woman’s sexuality, and often virginity, to the honor of her family and entire community. For more than 15 years, Jordanian journalist and women’s rights activist Rana Husseini has dedicated her life to uncovering the stories of violence against women, and helped to veer both legal and cultural traditions away from this barbaric practice. Her work has led her to discover that so-called honor killings happen all over the world, contrary to the belief that they are restricted to the Arab and Muslim world. In countries like Italy, the UK, Brazil, and right here in the US, violence against women stemming from jealousy, male entitlement, family honor, and other patriarchal structures, is far …