Dec 28 2007
Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.
Audio Stream | 
Podcast | Mp3 Download
This week on Uprising:
In the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s death, we’ll hear an hour-long special interview of the late former Pakistani Prime Minister and responses by analyst and activist, Pervez Hoodbhoy.
* * * * * * * * * * * …
Comments Off on Weekly Digest – 12/28/07
Dec 18 2007
Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.
Audio Stream | Podcast | Mp3 Download
This week on Uprising:
A holiday special one-hour program on Global Warming and solutions for change. Journalist and writer George Monbiot will explain why we absolutely have to reduce our carbon emissions 90% by the year 2030 if the planet is to …
Comments Off on Weekly Digest – 12/21/07
Dec 18 2007
GUEST: Bob Norman, columnist for New Times, Broward/Palm Beach in Florida
Last week, a Miami federal court declared a mistrial in the case of six men accused of plotting to wage war against the United States by blowing up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Jurors acquitted one man and failed to reach verdicts for …
Comments Off on Liberty City Seven Get Mistrial
Dec 18 2007
GUESTS: Floppy, Guin, Anne, members of Everybody’s Kitchen project
A group of activists have been traveling the country in a school bus, cooking food and feeding people in communities from New Orleans to Los Angeles. They call themselves Everybody’s Kitchen and base their work on the belief that no one should ever go hungry. The bus …
Dec 18 2007
GUESTS: Lalo Alcaraz and Estaban Zul, hosts of Pocho Hour of Power
This Friday December 21st, one of KPFK’s most popular programs, The Pocho Hour of Power, will be hosting The Pocho Night of Power, in an event hosted by Culture Clash. The event will feature local musicians and bands such as Mezklah, …
Comments Off on Pocho Night of Power
Dec 18 2007
The Uprising crew, Sonali Kolhatkar and Gabriel San Roman, will be on vacation until Friday January 4th. Until then, stay tuned to the Uprising hour for new and archival programming. …
Dec 18 2007
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” — Oscar Wilde …
Dec 17 2007
GUEST: Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen
In the aftermath of the Bali Climate Conference, which world leaders are calling, “historic,” the US appears to have destroyed all hopes for international agreement on ending global warming. Even worse than the outcome of the Kyoto talks, 190 nations agreed that while something had …
Comments Off on Bali and Energy Bill Leave Environmentalists Disappointed
Dec 17 2007
GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus
Last week, the New Jersey State legislature voted to pave the way for the state to become the first in four decades to repeal the death penalty. Governor John Corzine, long in favor of abolishing capital punishment, is expected in to sign into law the …
Dec 17 2007
GUEST: Marc Becker, Latin American Historian
The United States is on the verge of losing one of its last military outposts in Latin America. Manta Airport in Ecuador is currently on a ten-year lease to the US, signed in 1999, and has been used to combat the drug trade and immigration, as well as for counterinsurgency …
Comments Off on Ecuador to Evict US from Military Base
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
... more Announcements, Speaker Series
|
