Aug 03 2011
On August 3, 2011, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed LA Times reporter Howard Blume about what’s in store for Los Angeles’ public education with new heads of the LAUSD and the teachers union, UTLA.
Aug 03 2011
Check out UK-based electronic pop band Metronomy. We featured their song The Bay on Uprising today:
More about Metronomy at www.metronomy.co.uk.
If you know of an upcoming, independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send us an email.
Special thanks to Lex Henderson. …
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Aug 03 2011
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Aug 02 2011
We were informed this week that KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley was considering taking Uprising off the air. Since 2009, the weekly syndicated version of our popular LA-based radio program has been airing on Saturdays at 11 am on KPFA, the flag-ship Pacifica station.
If you think Uprising should stay on the air on KPFA, please contact their interim Program Director, Carrie Core at carrie@kpfa.org or 510 848-6767 ext. 209. And please spread the word …
Aug 02 2011
We’ll look at the significance of the debt-ceiling bill President Obama just signed into law after weeks of contentious political battle, and what it means for ordinary Americans. And, Howard Blume joins us in studio to discuss local education politics and the new heads of UTLA and LAUSD. Plus, an update on the humanitarian crisis in Somalia. And this week’s edition of The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar. …
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Aug 02 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
We often get lost in federal issues like the debt ceiling, but the fact of the matter is Los Angeles City provides its nearly 4 million residents with water and power, public transportation albeit inadequate, and a host of other day to day services that create a functioning government.
A few …
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Aug 02 2011
Check out UK-based band Clement Marfo and the Frontline. We featured their song Champion on Uprising today:
More about Clement Marfo and the Frontline at www.clementmarfo.com.
If you know of an upcoming, independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send us an email.
Special thanks to Lex Henderson. …
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Aug 02 2011
Government forces in Syria shelled civilian areas in the centrally located city of Hama. This was the second day of attacks in Syria following the bloodiest day of the 5-month long Syrian uprising on Sunday when 140 people were killed. Protestors have been demanding the resignation of their president Bashar al-Assad, who has been in power for 11 years, …
Aug 02 2011
When Raquel Nelson’s four year old son AJ was killed by a drunk, serial hit-and-run driver, she didn’t just lose her child, she faced prison time herself. The forty year-old African American Georgia mother was crossing a 4-lane street to her home with her family on April 10th 2010, just after stepping off the public bus. The nearest crosswalk …
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Aug 02 2011
Medicare turned 46 this past weekend, at the same time cuts to the program were being advocated in Washington and by no shortage of political pundits. The House approved the debt ceiling-deficit reduction deal struck over the weekend, by a vote of 269 to 161 yesterday. The Senate is expected to pass it today. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will …
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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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