Dec 22 2011
Thousands of Egyptian women marched in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on Tuesday to protest the Military’s mistreatment of women. The marchers were a fusion of Christian, Muslim and secular women of all ages whose anger was sparked by a video that caused international uproar. The video in question shows Egyptian police on Saturday, December 17 violently stripping a female activist of …
Dec 22 2011
The Obama administration announced this week that while it would be reducing its 1000-strong national guard presence on the US-Mexico border, the use of unmanned drones will increase. While it is now common knowledge that armed unmanned drones have been used for years on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, most Americans are unaware that drones are flying anywhere near the US. The …
Dec 22 2011
Hundreds of coal-and oil fired power plants around the country will be forced to clean-up their emissions after the EPA announced tough new mercury and pollutant standards yesterday. An obligation to regulate these toxic emissions was included in the 1990 Clean Air Act but the energy industry has lobbied hard against implementation for the past 20 years. Until now …
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Dec 22 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.
As we come to the end of 2011, we should take time to reflect on what the citizens of the world have accomplished from Wisconsin to Cairo.
We’re saturated with …
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Dec 22 2011
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” — Ansel Adams …
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Dec 21 2011
As Egyptian women rise up against military brutality, we’ll get an update from Professor Ghada Talahami on the on-going struggle for democracy in Egypt. And, the Pentagon announces an increase of drone activity on the US-Mexico border. Plus, in a victory for environmental activists, the EPA touts new regulations on Mercury and other toxic emissions. …
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Dec 21 2011
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar will be on vacation between Christmas and New Year. We’ll air special programming from Monday December 26th through Monday January 2nd featuring Blase Bonpane, Rev. James Lawson, Sarah Sentilles, Jonothan Kozol, Steven Hughes, and Gary Taubes. …
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Dec 21 2011
By a vote of 229 to 193, House Republicans yesterday narrowly succeeded in blocking a two-month federal budget bill passed by the Senate without actually voting against the legislation. In a maneuver FireDogLake writer David Dayen called, “smarmy,” Republicans rejected the bill while sending it to a committee for revision in collaboration with the Senate. Dayen writes this allows House …
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Dec 21 2011
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Julie Guthman’s new book entitled, Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism is an in depth discussion about how we identify the scope of the obesity epidemic and how there are many assumptions that limit our ability to address the issue. Traditional arguments about obesity center around the …
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Dec 21 2011
What would have become one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies will no longer be, now that AT&T has dropped its $39 billion bid to merge with T-Mobile. The desire to merge was announced earlier in the year but was immediately denounced by media reform activists, saying that an AT&T merger with T-Mobile would lead to less competition and worse …
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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