Jan 10 2011
An unusual action took place in downtown Los Angeles on January 3rd when a group of artists and activists protested the Museum of Contemporary Art. The artists came together in opposition to what at least one participant called “censorship” by the museum’s Director Jeffery Deitch. In early December, Deitch removed a mural the museum had commissioned after it was …
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Jan 10 2011
The US Department of Labor released December unemployment statistics on Friday. The holiday-filled month came with a lower national unemployment rate of 9.4%. Last month white adult men saw a decrease in unemployment, but women and people of color saw virtually no change. In addition, the number of people unemployed for more than 27 weeks stayed about the …
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Jan 10 2011
“When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.” — Alica Adams …
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Jan 07 2011
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* GOP Targets Citizenship Birthright of Immigrants’ Children
* Understanding the Crisis in Ivory Coast
* Black Agenda Report on Somalia’s Mercenaries
* War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature 1861 – 1914
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Jan 07 2011
We’ll take a look back at Haiti one year after the devastating earthquake that killed over 200,000 people. And we’ll examine the new myth that unemployment is the result of a skills deficit rather than a jobs deficit. Plus, local artists comments on a growing scandal over the censorship of a controversial antiwar mural at MOCA. …
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Jan 07 2011
The violence that erupted after the Ivory Coast’s November 28th election has reached a fever pitch. Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo who had ruled the West African nation for over a decade, lost the election to Alassane Ouattara, but refused to give up power. The United Nations, the African Union, and the Economic Community Of West African States all recognize Ouattara …
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Jan 07 2011
Republican Darrell Issa, the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, blames slow job creation on regulation of all kinds. The California Representative in November made waves by calling President Obama “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times” during an interview with Rush Limbaugh. He backpeddled from the comment later, but he maintains that …
Jan 07 2011
While the American tradition of antiwar writing is often traced back to the post-World War I era, little is known about the antiwar impulse before the war. In fact, in the era between the Civil War and WWI, American writers like Herman Melville, John William De Forest, and Walt Whitman wrote literature that went against the popular convictions …
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Jan 07 2011
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, …
Jan 07 2011
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviews writer Cynthia Wachtell about her new book “War No More.”
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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