Jan 18 2012
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.
This Sunday marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision recognizing a woman’s constitutional right to have a safe and legal abortion.
Women’s rights and …
Jan 18 2012
Check out Dilana, a South African singer/songwriter now based in LA, California . We featured her song “Loud Silence” today on Uprising.
More information and streaming music at www.dilanarocks.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 …
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Jan 18 2012
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …
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Jan 17 2012
We’ll speak with Chris Hedges about why he’s suing President Barack Obama. And, a book ban in Tuscon, Arizona takes aim at ethnic studies programs. Plus, an update on Burma as hundreds of political prisoners are released and the US resumes full diplomatic relations with the regime. …
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Jan 17 2012
On January 13, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed four people of diverse backgrounds who have been intimately involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement about the origins of the movement, its future and scope
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Jan 17 2012
A well known Pashtun leader, outspoken against the Taliban, was assassinated in Kandahar, Afghanistan today. Mohammad Nahim Agha Mama was gunned down inside a mosque while he prayed. Nahim, a tribal leader, was known for organizing against the Taliban in his local council. His is the latest in a string of killings that began last year of high-profile members of …
Jan 17 2012
Three years into the first term of America’s first black President, racism is not only nowhere near over, it is a major feature of this year’s election. GOP candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are becoming increasingly caustic toward one another, but most have managed to make a common enemy of people of color. This year, so far at …
Jan 17 2012
Based on a US Supreme Court decision in 2011 to uphold a ruling for California to reduce overcrowding in its prisons, twenty five counties in this state are being invited to apply for billions in funding to expand their jail systems. The money is being distributed state-wide by the Corrections Standards Authority, which has already awarded hundreds of millions of …
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Jan 17 2012
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
The LAUSD is the second largest school district in the United States with a K through 12 enrollment of 664,000 and a total enrollment of 919,000 students. The general fund for this fiscal year 2011/12 totaled $6.5 billion. That is after …
Jan 17 2012
“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.” — Horace Mann …
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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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