Aug 10 2011
We’ll go live to Britain to analyze the riots as the continue to spread – what’s behind them and how are politicians responding? And, a new study on how wealthy people feel less empathy than lower income people. Plus, how the drastic cuts in bus services in Los Angeles are affecting poor communities and people of color, and this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Aug 10 2011
The board of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s embattled media conglomerate, met in Los Angeles this week. It was the first meeting since the phone hacking scandal broke in the UK, shaking the media empire’s foundations like never before. But according to writer and radio host Maria Armoudian, News Corps’ “True Scandals” are much worse than the phone hacking revelations. Armoudian cites how News …
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Aug 10 2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
On Saturday, 45,000 unionized Verizon landline workers went on strike up and down the East Coast to protest the company’s plan to strip away 50 years of hard won collective …
Aug 10 2011
Maria Armoudian who was interviewed on Uprising will have a book launch on August 11th at the LA Press Club at 7:30 pm. The LA Press Club is at the Steve Allen Theater, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles. …
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Aug 10 2011
Check out the U.S.-born Chilean singer, Francisca Valenzuela. We featured her song Que Seria?, from the album Muérdete La Lengua today on Uprising.
Listen to Que Seria here:
More about Francisca Valenzuela at www.franciscavalenzuela.com
If you know of an upcoming, independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send us an email. …
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Aug 10 2011
“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.” — Ben Bagdikian …
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Aug 09 2011
A dense cloud of brown dust billowed up as a pair of CH-53 Super Stallions landed in a cornfield next to Patrol Base Jaker. U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry stepped out of the swirl wearing a dress shirt, but no body armor or helmet in a move meant to impress upon a U.S. network TV crew the improved safety in Helmand province’s Nawa district. The ambassador took a turn around the bazaar, trailed by two dozen …
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Aug 09 2011
British officials anticipating more riots Tuesday night sharply increased police presence in London and elsewhere to try to control the country’s worst uprising in years.
About 16,000 officers, roughly triple the number on duty in London a day earlier, were being deployed to try to accomplish what some observers described as “reclaiming the streets.”
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Aug 09 2011
Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World – we’ll spend the hour with scholar, radio host, and writer, Maria Armoudian. Plus this week’s Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar. …
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Aug 09 2011
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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