“Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. ” — Roger Baldwin
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We’ll cover the Syrian army’s crackdown over the weekend that resulted in 140 people dead. And, the aggressive persecution of poor mothers of color. Plus, on the 46th anniversary of Medicare we’ll examine the government healthcare program and the dangers it faces. Plus, Civic Circus, a new weekly feature on local politics by Ankur Patel.

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On Monday August 1, 2011, just a day before the deadline to raise the debt ceiling, Uprising Radio hosted a two part discussion on the issues.

Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with David Dayen, political writer at FireDogLake.com and Robert Scheer co-founder with Zuade Kaufman and editor-in-chief of the progressive online news site Truthdig.com.

• Listen to the entire program

A debt ceiling- deficit reduction deal has been agreed to by leaders of Congress and the President.The President addressed the nation yesterday evening and announced the two-stage bill that will end, in his words, a “messy” process. Both Houses of Congress are expected to vote to approve the bill today. This final version is a compromise between competing plans introduced into …

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“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” — Abraham Lincoln; “Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Check out Boston-based artist Amanda Palmer. We featured her song In My Mind on Uprising today:

More about Amanda Palmer at www.amandapalmer.net.

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. …