Sep 22 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.
I’m Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco with this week’s Activist Beat for Uprising. Each week I’ll bring you a weekly roundup of progressive activism …
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Sep 22 2011
“Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.” — John L. Lewis …
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Sep 21 2011
We’ll get an update on Troy Davis’ planned execution, looking at the movement that built up around his case, and what it means for the future of the anti-death penalty movement. And, Swedish film maker Goran Olsson and former Black Panther leader Erika Huggins join us to discuss the new critically acclaimed documentary Black Power Mixtape – 1967-1975. And, how American organized labor is responding to the Great Recession. …
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Sep 21 2011
Norman Solomon is a progressive author and activist running for the House of Representatives in California’s 6th Congressional district which runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. He is campaigning for now retired Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey’s seat. Solomon describes his political platform as “The Green New Deal” and he advocates for, among other things, quality education, adequate health care, consumer protection and civil liberties.
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Sep 21 2011
According to an investigative report by Matthew Fleischer, inmates at the LA Men’s Central Jail are subject to horrific abuses by, or under the watch of, the Sheriff’s deputies who work there. Known as the CJ, it is the largest jail in the county holding over 4300 men a day. Severe beatings and sexual humiliation are commonplace, say inmates and whistle blowers. Prisoners have been left in unsupervised situations where other inmates savagely beat and raped them. Deputies are also known to form clubs that witnesses say function more like gangs. Members intimidate their fellow officers, abuse inmates, sport matching tattoos, and adhere to a strict code of silence. Reforms, Fleischer reports, are slow in coming due to push-back within the ranks and disinterest among top administrators.
Sep 21 2011
According to CBS News, one of Troy Davis’ defense attorneys, Stephen Marsh, has announced this morning that prison officials in Georgia have blocked his request for a polygraph test just hours before his scheduled execution. Davis is scheduled to be killed by the state by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EST Wednesday.
GUEST: Laura Moye, Director of the Death Penalty Abolition …
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Sep 21 2011
A short lived ceasefire in Yemen ended today when government forces killed protestors in the capital city of Sanaa, at the same time as hundreds of thousands mourned the deaths of protestors slain in previous days. CNN reports 500,000 opposition supporters attended funerals for 30 of the over 80 people killed during three days of battles waged with heavy artillery …
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Sep 21 2011
The race is on to comply with a federal court mandate to reduce overcrowding in California state prisons. The state is supposed to have reduced the prison population to 167% of capacity by this November, and then continue in stages through 2013. The California Department of Corrections recently announced plans to release female prisoners not convicted of violent or sexual …
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Sep 21 2011
Check out Sasha Evans a singer/songwriter based in Orange County, CA . We featured her song “Babies” today on Uprising.
Here she is performing another song, “Writers Block”
More about Sasha Evans at www.reverbnation.com/sashaevans
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 …
Sep 21 2011
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw …
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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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