Nov 21 2011
When the call for a general strike in Oakland earlier this month led to a 10,000 strong march and a shut down of the port, the actions of a handful of so-called Black Bloc anarchists who caused property damage triggered an age-old debate about tactics. Shop windows being smashed tend to attract almost as much media scrutiny as police brutality, …
Nov 21 2011
Internet piracy has not ceased to boil the blood of entertainment industry heavy weights since Napster allowed nominally savvy users to widely share music online without a penny going back to major record labels. The distributors of movies and music largely located in Hollywood have not adapted to the new age of information sharing, and instead continue to lobby for …
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Nov 21 2011
“As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.” — Jeremy Bentham …
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Nov 18 2011
Ralph Nader joins us to discuss Occupy Wall Street and his newest book, “Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism.” Plus writer and activist Brian Dominick on tactics of violence versus non-violence in the Occupy movement. And, why the Stop Online Privacy Act is being dubbed the Internet Blacklist Bill by activists and big internet companies alike. …
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Nov 18 2011
This week on Uprising —
Occupy Wall Street Regroups, Fights Back – Special Report from Occupy Los Angeles – Occupy Wall Street and Struggle for Racial Justice – Angela Davis on the Importance of Occupy Wall Street – Insider Trading in Congress Under Scrutiny
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Nov 18 2011
Check out Blackfire, from Flagstaff, Arizona. We featured their song “Peaks Fire” today on Uprising.
More about Blackfire at www.blackfire.net
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Nov 18 2011
Check out Bo-Keys, from Nashville, Tennessee. We featured their song “My Country Loves Me” today on Uprising.
More about Bo Keys at www.thebokeys.com.
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Nov 18 2011
Hundreds of activists took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles yesterday in the on-going movement for economic justice at a time of unparalleled income inequality. Members of Occupy Los Angeles joined forces with the Good Jobs LA coalition, in marching through LA’s financial district, culminating in a major street being blocked, and surrounding a Bank of America branch. More …
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Nov 18 2011
A group of Palestinians this week exercised their right to travel freely by boarding a bus to Jerusalem, in the spirit of the American Freedom Rides of the 1960s. Starting in the West Bank, the activist group of six which included American citizen Huwaida Arraf, waited to board a bus holding signs saying “We Shall Overcome,” and the words “Freedom,” …
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Nov 18 2011
The Los Angeles City Council meeting on Tuesday was shut down, but not by members of Occupy LA camping outside City Hall, rather by activists in the battle to revive the South Central Farm – the 14 acre family-run farm on 41st and Alameda, which was dramatically bull-dozed 8 years ago. The unused plot of land in the midst of …
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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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