Aug 15 2011
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is about the London riots.
Listen to Abu Jamal’s commentaries online at www.prisonradio.org. …
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Aug 15 2011
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.” — Frances Wright …
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Aug 12 2011
We’ll speak with the lead researcher of a new study by the London based Bureau of Investigative Reporting on the CIA’s use of unmanned drones in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. And, thousands of Americans participate in a new online and in-person effort to redefine the “American Dream” through progressive policy ideas. Plus, California holds hearings on the state of boys and young men of color. …
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Aug 12 2011
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This week on Uprising:
* Who’s Responsible for the S&P Downgrade & Does it Really Matter?
* Super-Committee Forms Amid Low Expectations of Success
* An in-Depth Look at What’s Behind the London Riots
* Black Agenda Report on the London Riots
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Aug 12 2011
This week Democratic and Republican leaders chose 12 lawmakers to sit on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, a panel charged with cutting the federal budget by $1.2 trillion before the year’s end. The so-called super committee’s mandate was created in the recent debt ceiling bill that was signed into law, and is supposed to consist of three House …
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Aug 12 2011
Jimmy Dore is an award winning writer, performer, and comedian. Each week on his KPFK show, he skewers mainstream and right wing media, using satire and comedy to drive home his points. Dore has starred in several Comedy Central specials, his latest being the one-hour special, Citizen Jimmy. He is the writer and performer of the off-Broadway hit, “The …
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Aug 12 2011
A Department of Energy Subcommittee requested by the President on hydraulic fracturing released its interim report yesterday. The report focused on the regulation of US shale gas production. Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” extracts gas and oil from deep in the earth through the use of pressurized water in combination with potentially toxic chemicals. Although it is …
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Aug 12 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, …
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Aug 12 2011
A federally-appointed panel recommended greater disclosure and monitoring of the environmental effects of extracting natural gas from shale formations, marking the Obama administration’s first broad assessment of the controversial practice known as fracking.
A coast-to-coast shale gas boom has raised concerns about the risks to underground water supplies from hydraulic fracturing, which involves mixing sand, water and chemicals and injecting them into shale formations at high pressure to unlock the gas. Environmental groups, local residents and …
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Aug 12 2011
Check out the Van Nuys based band, Chop Love Carry Fire. We featured their song Want Nothing, from their self-titled EP today on Uprising:
More about Chop Love Carry Fire at choplovecarryfire.com
If you know of an If you know of an up and coming independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send an email to mail@uprisingradio.org. …
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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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