Nov 23 2011
This week on Uprising —
Super Committee Failure Equals Failure of Congress and President – Ralph Nader Wants You to Get Steamed – Egypt: “Getting Rid of Mubarak Was Just The Warmup. This is the Real Showdown”
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Nov 23 2011
We’ll get an update from Occupy Los Angeles about whether the City Hall Encampment will be allowed to remain and what’s next for the local arm of the national movement. Plus, we’ll take the pulse of the national economy after the biggest retail weekend of the year. And, author Jinee Lokaneeta on her new book “Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India. …
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Nov 23 2011
It has been over two months since Adbusters, a Canadian magazine, sent out a call to protest the inequality of our financial system by physically occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. With a rallying cry of “We are the 99 Percent,” protestors set up camp on September 17th to articulate the deep frustration felt by those who have been …
Nov 23 2011
Investor confidence in Spain remains low in spite of the high number of parliamentary seats won by the conservative Partido Popular, or People’s Party, in Sunday’s elections. Yesterday the Financial Times reported the cost of three month borrowing was higher for Spain than Greece, and observers wondered if the nation was headed for a bailout request. Conservative incoming Prime Minister …
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Nov 23 2011
Desperate to ring-up as many sales as possible on Black Friday, big retailers including Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy are pushing shopping madness into Thanksgiving Day. Wal-Mart stores will open at 10pm on Thursday, with Target and others opening at Midnight on Friday. The move outraged one Target employee so much that he started an online petition urging supporters to …
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Nov 23 2011
Local supporters of “Buy Nothing Day” (Black Friday) can celebrate it by consuming, not appliances and products, but the art of Mear One at the opening night of his new show, Graffic Discourse at the Townhouse Gallery in Venice. LA based artist Mear One has been making graffiti influenced, politically charged work since long before the Occupy Wall Street movement captured the attention of America, and it is a perfect compliment to the current national mood. The Santa Cruz, California born artist is known for a 2004 series of “anti-war, anti-Bush” pieces done in collaboration with artists Shepard Fairy and Robbie Conal under the title, “Be the Revolution.” Mear One describes Graffic Discourse, running from November 25th to December 18th, as a “nutritional necessity that can improve your perception and help you discover you’re not alone in a once politically mundane Amerikkka. ”
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Nov 23 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.
You know things are bad when members of the 1% are asking Congress to raise their taxes. That’s what happened last Wednesday in Washington. Twenty-one members of the group Read more
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Nov 23 2011
Check out hip hop artist Kid Cudi. We featured his song “Pursuit of Happiness” today on Uprising.
More about Kid Cudi at www.kidcudi.com
Streaming at www.myspace.com/kidcudi
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Uprising’s Music Curator is Chris Bennett …
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Nov 23 2011
“The American Dream is real only for those who are sleeping!” — Mear One …
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Nov 22 2011
Proposals for voting strategies proliferated in the runup to Sunday’s general election in Spain. People wrote “ballot box” on drains and toilets; others suggested cutting out the middlemen and depositing votes directly into bank machines. This campaign of ballot spoiling wasn’t a subcultural anarchist prank, but a reflection of extraordinarily widespread popular disaffection. A typical sight during a pre-election protest was a respectable middle-aged man with a cigarette in one hand and a marker pen …
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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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