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An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed yesterday morning in a car bomb explosion near a University campus in Northern Teheran. The killing is the latest in a string of violence targeting Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010. On state television on Wednesday, Iranian officials implied US and Israeli responsibility for the killing and one Parliamentarian responded, “[t]his is not the first …

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cites that about 20% of adult Americans smoke cigarettes, with a greater prevalence among men than women. Cigarette smoking still continues to be “the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, accounting for approximately 443,000 deaths, or 1 of every 5 deaths, in the United States each year.” A report late …

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Check out Clara C, a musician from Northridge, CA. We featured her song “The Camel Song'” today on Uprising.

Find out more about her at www.claracmusic.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 …

We’ll commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake with a look at how the poorest country in the Western hemisphere is recovering. And, a media analysis of the recent saber rattling with Iran. Plus, Addiction Incorporated, a new documentary about the battle against the powerful tobacco industry. …

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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues to lead the pack of GOP Presidential hopefuls after winning 39% of the vote yesterday in the New Hampshire primary. Congressman Ron Paul came in second with 23% of the vote and latecomer John Huntsman, former Governor of Utah, took third place with 17%. In this six all-men race the remaining three candidates failed …

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Listen to the October 25, 2005 Uprising interview with James Yee.

Actions around the world, including in the US and UK, are marking today as a Day of Shame for the on-going operation of the Guantánamo prison in Cuba. Witness Against Torture, whose member Frida Berrigan we interviewed yesterday, continue their focused actions in Washington DC against …

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This week marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of one of the most important strikes in American labor history. On January 11th 1912, immigrant Polish women working at Everett Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, went on strike against a reduction in pay in response to a new state law. A day later, other workers joined in, and by the …

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“As we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days —
The rising of the women means the rising of the race —
No more the drudge and idler — ten that toil where one reposes —
But a sharing of life’s glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.”

— From the James Oppenheim poem about the 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts strike:

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Check out King washington, a band from LA, CA. We featured their song “I Get By'” today on Uprising.

Watch them perform “Angela” live:

Find out more about them at www.myspace.com/kingwashington

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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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.

Activists in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Fresno, and San Francisco took to the streets yesterday to speak out against Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to slash another $1.4 billion in funding …

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