Oct 11 2011
“I’ve always said L.A. is a small town wrapped in a big one…L.A. is a terminus city, a destination that people from other places wind up and that natives don’t tend to leave at all, or not for very long,” says Erin Aubry Kalpan in her October 6th article “Driving Down Memory Lane.”
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Oct 11 2011
The Boston police have arrested an estimated 100 protestors camping out in Dewey Square. The Occupy Boston group reportedly tried to expand their encampment and were stopped by police. The Occupy movement is now in its 4th week and is growing, with tent cities popping up all over the country including in places like Colorado Springs, Colorado, South Bend, Indiana, …
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Oct 11 2011
Naomi Klein, journalist and author of the seminal book on corporate power, the Shock Doctrine:The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, gave a speech before the encampment at Occupy Wall Street last Thursday. Just before she went on stage she spoke with Karah Woodward, an independent producer with Digital Warrior Media* and our sister station in New York, WBAI Pacifica radio. Naomi …
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Oct 11 2011
“I’ve always said L.A. is a small town wrapped in a big one…L.A. is a terminus city, a destination that people from other places wind up and that natives don’t tend to leave at all, or not for very long,” says Erin Aubry Kalpan in her October 6th article “Driving Down Memory Lane” (KCET). Kaplan has been writing with a …
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Oct 11 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
If you want to follow the money, you have to look at pensions. The largest public pension fund in the United States of America is the California Public Employee Retirement System (CALPERS), valued at $235,800,000,000 as of July 2011. California is …
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Oct 11 2011
“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.” — Khalil Gibran
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Oct 11 2011
Protesters said that late on Monday police had issued an ultimatum to return to their small original encampment by nightfall or be moved along.
Protesters’ tents have been set up in Dewey Square Park in downtown Boston all month but on Monday expanded to a larger section of the nearby Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
Shortly after midnight, hundreds of Boston and Transit police officers, some in riot gear, moved in, handcuffing protesters and tearing down tents.
Police said …
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Oct 10 2011
With the announcement early Monday that he had outlawed the public display of handguns in California, Gov. Jerry Brown bucked a national trend toward more lenient firearms laws and placed himself in the political cross-hairs of the state’s 2nd Amendment activists.
Brown, the owner of three guns, said in a statement that he signed a bill banning the open carrying of handguns at the urging of law enforcement officials, who included Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie …
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Oct 08 2011
Check out Trombone Shorty a musician from New Orleans. We featured his song “Something Beautiful” today on Uprising.
More about Trombone Shorty at www.tromboneshorty.com
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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Oct 07 2011
This week on Uprising — Occupy Wall Street Protests Sweep the Nation – Special Report from Occupy Los Angeles – Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan – Judge Allows Alabama Immigration Law – Toughest In the Nation – To Take Effect
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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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