Dec 30 2011
This week on Uprising —
The State of American Empire in 2012 – 2011 One of the Deadliest Years for Journalists – Public Approval of Congress Plummets in 2011 – The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar
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Dec 30 2011
“Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.” – Maria Montessori …
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Dec 30 2011
This show is a rebroadcast.
On Monday we heard the story of Sarah Sentilles, author of “Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton.” On Tuesday, part 2 of our three-part education special was a conversation with Jonathan Kozol on his book The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. Today, as part 3 of our holiday education special, we …
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Dec 29 2011
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson …
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Dec 29 2011
This show is a rebroadcast.
Despite the gains made after the 1954 desegregation ruling Brown Versus Board of Education, schools today are more segregated than ever. My guest Jonathan Kozol, well known for his books about the American educational system and children’s rights, such as Savage Inequalities, has a new book out. It’s called “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.” …
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Dec 28 2011
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley …
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Dec 28 2011
This show is a rebroadcast.
We spend the hour today speaking with Sarah Sentilles, who wrote down her memoirs of two years in Compton, Southern California. She was teaching elementary school there. After graduating from Yale University, Sarah joined a program called Teach for America and was sent to Compton. Far from the life of privilege and the protected environment she was raised in, she found herself …
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Dec 27 2011
Uprising’s first show of the New Year brings a look the 2012 political landscape as the Iowa caucus kicks off election season. Akiba Solomon joins us to discuss what challenges the reproductive rights movement will face in this Presidential election year, and members of the United Painters and Public Artists talk about a city and artist effort to revive the city’s mural culture. …
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Dec 27 2011
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dec 27 2011
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Occupy Wall Street is barely a few months old but has already been dubbed the new progressive movement of our era. Internet technology has boosted the movement’s reach and sped up its growth. However, given its infancy, how much can be attributed to Occupy Wall Street’s influence and how resilient is it in the long-term? Today, to answer these and other questions, …
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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