Sep 28 2011
The annual Kaiser Family Foundation Survey on health insurance premiums has found that employers paid 9% more for family coverage in 2011 than in the previous year. Last year health insurance premiums went up only three percent. On average, family coverage costs $15, 073 a year, an increase of almost double from 2001. Employers are not shouldering the …
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Sep 28 2011
With the race for the 2012 Presidential election taking shape, immigration has, once more, become a high-profile issue. Tea Partiers and their ilk are accusing Texas Governor and Presidential candidate Rick Perry of being soft on immigrants, in particular, for supporting his state’s DREAM Act which allows some undocumented students to pay in-state college tuition. But a growing tide of …
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Sep 28 2011
David Barsamian, activist, writer and founder of the national radio show “Alternative Radio,” was deported from New Delhi, India on Monday. Barsamian was on his way to Srinagar, the capital of Jammu Kashmir for a three week long investigation into reports of mass graves found in the area. His trip was prompted by the Indian State Human Rights Commission’s …
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Sep 28 2011
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.” — Theodore Roosevelt …
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Sep 28 2011
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, LA Times columnist and novelist Héctor Tobar, has just published his newest book, The Barbarian Nurseries. Set in the wealthy suburbs of Orange County and the gritty barrios of Los Angeles, The Barbarian Nurseries is the story of a young undocumented Mexican maid, Araceli, and her liberal employers, Maureen and Scott Torres-Thompson, and their three children. A marital dispute set off by the family’s financial woes leads to an inadvertent abandonment by the Torres-Thompsons of their two young sons who are left in the care of the surly Araceli. In an attempt to find the children’s grandfather Araceli takes the boys on a journey via Southern California public transit, across county lines, into a drama politicized by the media and legal system. Ultimately Araceli is accused of kidnapping the two American boys, and becomes a symbol for conservatives to rally against, and immigrant rights activists to rally behind, while her former employers choose between letting her take the blame and the possibility of losing their children to the state. The Barbarian Nurseries is Héctor Tobar’s third book, following Translation Nation, and The Tattooed Soldier.
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Sep 27 2011
We’ll examine the results of a new study on the ever-increasing costs of health insurance. And, Pulitzer prizing winning journalist and LA Times columnist Hector Tobar joins me in studio to discuss his latest book, The Barbarian Nurseries. Plus, journalist David Barsamian on his deportation from India this week, over investigating the Indian government’s abuses in Kashmir. …
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Sep 27 2011
Check out Killradio a punk band from LA. We featured their song “Peace Makes Coffins Your Size Too” today on Uprising.
More about Killradio at www.reverbnation.com/killradio
If you know of an independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send an email to mail@uprisingradio.org.
Uprising’s Music Curator is Chris Bennett
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Sep 27 2011
Discussions began within the United Nations Security Council yesterday on the Palestinian bid for statehood, but it will likely take weeks before it comes to a vote. The U.S. is working intensely behind-the-scenes to convince Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to drop his request and agree instead to a new round of talks with Israel. However analysts say …
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Sep 27 2011
Videos shot at the now 11-day long Occupy Wall Street action show an aggressive and at times violent New York Police Department reaction. Arrests began early last week but a crackdown on Saturday during a march shocked participants and drew media attention. In perhaps the most outrageous incident caught on film, a group of female protesters were penned in …
Sep 27 2011
Over 300 Canadians demonstrated on Monday against their government’s support of oilsands as a fossil fuel source, bringing further attention to the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline slated for the US. Dozens were arrested on Parliament Hill in Ottawa at the action, described by a Greenpeace campaigner as a demand for a “clean-energy economy.” Meanwhile, Friends of the Earth, has uncovered …
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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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