Dec
28
2010
Despite the gains made after the 1954 desegregation ruling Brown Versus Board of Education, schools today are more segregated than ever. My guest Jonathan Kozol, well known for his books about the American educational system and children’s rights, such as Savage Inequalities, has a new book out. It’s called “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.” …
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Dec
27
2010
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley …
Dec
27
2010
We spend the hour today speaking with Sarah Sentilles, who wrote down her memoirs of two years in Compton, Southern California. She was teaching elementary school there. After graduating from Yale University, Sarah joined a program called Teach for America and was sent to Compton. Far from the life of privilege and the protected environment she was raised in, she found herself in charge of thirty-six first …
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Dec
23
2010
Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.
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This week on Uprising:
* FCC Rules Will Disproportionately Affect People of Color and Poor
* Black Agenda Report on the Recently Passed FCC Rules
* Why DADT Was Repealed While DREAM Failed
* South Korea Provokes North Korea with US Backing
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Dec
23
2010
On Monday Dec 27 – Wednesday Dec 29, we’ll hear a three part series on Education with Sarah Sentilles, author of “Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton,” the Get Lit Players and their poetry, Jonathan Kozol on his book, “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America,” Glen Ford on education privatization, and Dr. Steven Hughes, President-Elect of the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology on the …
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Dec
23
2010
The so-called Peace Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have broken down just months after they started over a number of issues, in particular the building of illegal Israeli settlements. Khaled Meshaal, a prominent political leader of Hamas, the militant Palestinian party, was among the most vocal opponents of the process. Meshaal is one of several prominent …
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Dec
23
2010
In the 1970s, Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren pioneered the idea of permaculture at the University of Tasmania. Permaculture, a combination of the words “permanent” and “agriculture,” focuses on the relationships between deep ecology, landscape architecture and agriculture. Permaculture practitioners try to minimize their ecological impact by living on farms and in homes that produce zero waste, do …
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Dec
23
2010
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.
Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch his videos at www.youtube.com/user/jsjkim, …
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Dec
23
2010
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the recently passed FCC Rules.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
Dec
23
2010
“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living” – Rudolph Steiner …
