Jul 21 2009
We’ll examine the real legacy of the Apollo Space program on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. And we’ll look at how corporations are using CAFTA to sue the nation of El Salvador over mining rights that can lead to serious water pollution. Plus, California college students are organizing against tuition hikes once more – we’ll go live to a rally. …
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Jul 20 2009
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers have stalled in negotiations addressing the $ 26.3 billion budget shortfall. Reports of optimism preceded talks on Wednesday before breaking down on disagreements regarding cuts to education and Proposition 98. The initiative, passed two decades ago, allocates forty percent of the state’s general fund to public elementary, high school and community colleges. …
Jul 20 2009
Anti-immigration activists and organizations are working towards a new initiative that would end state benefits for undocumented immigrants and their legal status children. Barbara Coe of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, who co-authored Prop 187 in 1994, is a leading supporter of the new measure. Sharing much in common with its predecessor, the effort, which is seeking …
Jul 20 2009
Chris Hedges’ latest tome is a systematic deconstruction of the matrix of American illusions: the overwhelming ways in which our culture and our lives, are severed from the complexities of reality into the one-dimensional worlds of celebrities, infotainment, pornography, advertising, and nationalism. In Empire of Illusions, this veteran Pulitzer Prize winning journalist takes us from the lurid worlds of …
Jul 20 2009
The 20th Anniversary of Aung San Suu Kyi’s House Arrest
Back in the day on July 20th, 1989, Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest in Rangoon by the military regime in Burma. The daughter of an assassinated independence hero, Suu Kyi joined forces with the National League for Democracy as uprisings in the country that …
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Jul 20 2009
“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.” — Sigmund Freud …
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Jul 17 2009
We’ll speak with local activists organizing to fight the major cuts to the state budget that could devastate California’s basic standards of living. And we’ll look at a new proposition which seeks to end benefits for the legal children of immigrants. Plus, an in-studio conversation with veteran journalist Chris Hedges who’s in town with his latest book: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. …
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Jul 17 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Is Congress Diluting Health Care Reform Beyond Recognition?
* Black Agenda Report on Obama and Student Loans
* Episcopal Church Drops Ban on LGBT Bishops
* Empire Notes on Military Coup in Honduras
* Iranian Uprising Continues: Activists Speak Out
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Jul 17 2009
Congressional committees are abuzz this week, tackling health care reform and all its myriad aspects. Earlier in the week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed its version of a bill that Democrats said would offer more universal, affordable and effective health coverage. The majority of Senators on that committee struck down an amendment allowing …
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Jul 17 2009
Convening nationally for the first time in three years, the Episcopal Church has advanced on issues concerning gays within the denomination. Earlier this week, a resolution was passed by both of the Church’s main decision-making bodies that opened ordination to LGBT members of the clergy. The move was seen as a repudiation of the measure adopted three …
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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 ……
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