Oct 24 2011
“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.” — Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal …
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Oct 21 2011
A coalition of media reform groups in Los Angeles are protesting today during a shareholders meeting of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch owned News Corporation starting at 9AM outside Fox Studios at 10201 W. Pico Blvd. in Century City. The protest is in reaction to News Corp. business practices exposed by this summer’s illegal phone hacking scandal, and …
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Oct 21 2011
With the movement for economic justice growing across the country at various Occupy Wall Street solidarity encampments, corporate greed is a prime target. Placards and poster board scrawled with “People Before Profits” and “End Corporate Personhood” are widespread. A picture of young woman at Occupy New York holding a cardboard sign reading, “I will believe corporations are people when …
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Oct 21 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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Oct 20 2011
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled his country with an iron fist for over forty years, has reportedly been killed by opposition forces earlier today. Gaddafi had faced a major popular uprising since this past February. Buoyed by the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan rebels organized themselves in the face of violent retaliation by Gaddafi’s forces, and were …
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Oct 20 2011
A Think Progress analysis of news coverage found that from October 11th to the 16th the word “jobs” was mentioned 2,738 times, the phrase “Wall Street” 2,387 times, while “Occupy” grabbed over 2000 mentions. Compare that to late July when a similar media analysis turned up over 7500 mentions of “debt” to only 427 mentions of “unemployment.” Think Progress analyst …
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Oct 20 2011
After five straight weeks of decline, gas prices are on the rise once more. While car owners are used to the ups and downs of gasoline over the past several years, a growing number of consumers are becoming independent of gas prices altogether – they’re buying electric vehicles or EVs. Only five years after local film maker Chris Paine released …
Oct 20 2011
Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader’s hometown and final stronghold.
“We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed,” Mahmoud Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday in Tripoli, the capital.
Crowds took to the streets of Sirte, Tripoli and Benghazi, the eastern city that spearheaded the uprising against Gaddafi’s 42-year rule in …
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Oct 19 2011
We’ll be joined in studio by Chris Paine, filmmaker, best know for his 2006 film Who Killed the Electric Car? He’ll be discussing his brand new followup film, Revenge of the Electric Car. And, we’ll get a live report from Occupy Wall Street. …
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Oct 19 2011
Contending that allegations of prisoner mistreatment have “shattered” public faith in the Los Angeles County jail system, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved on Tuesday an outside oversight committee and measures that could potentially overhaul the sheriff’s use-of-force policy.
The moves followed weeks of reports in The Times and other organizations detailing allegations of abuse of inmates and a code of silence within the Sheriff’s Department, which oversees the nation’s largest jail system. The FBI is …
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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