Feb 15 2012
Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of the concept of micro-credit, Muhammad Yunus, has strongly criticized new micro-finance banks in India, saying they are not meant to be profit-generating institutions. The world-renowned Bangladeshi Professor created the concept of small-scale loans to primarily women in Bangladesh, which is one of the world’s poorest countries. Through …
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Feb 15 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.
The horrific working conditions at the Foxconn factories in China are finally getting the national media attention they deserve. Foxconn is the company whose massive factories make electronic products for …
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Feb 14 2012
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A year ago today, on Valentine’s Day 2011, unionized teaching assistants from the University of Wisconsin – Madison converged on their state capitol for a “Don’t Break My Heart” demonstration against Republican Governor Scott Walker. Walker, in office for less than 2 months at the time, outraged Wisconsinites by introducing so-called “budget repair” legislation that stripped public employees of many collective bargaining rights. …
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Feb 14 2012
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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies. This week on Uprising I’m going to take a look at one of our most precious resources: Water.
So far about 120 candidates have filed to run for 53 offices within Los Angeles County in the June 5th …
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Feb 14 2012
“The spirit of resistance not just to political power but to the corporations that pull the puppet strings of our politicians, the reoccupation of public space that had been co-opted by the elites, the reassertion of rights that had languished for too long: all of this and more [has] provided an outline for a new politics of protest.” — John Nichols, from Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street …
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Feb 13 2012
The Arab League’s call for peacekeepers to enter Syria have been flatly rejected by the Syrian government. The embattled government in Damascus said the call constituted “flagrant interference” in its affairs even as it resumed shelling cities for a 10th straight day. At least 23 people were killed on Sunday in Homs, two days after dual explosions rocked the city …
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Feb 13 2012
The Obama administration spent the weekend defending its decision to exempt some religious employers from providing coverage for birth control against attacks from its base and from conservatives. Republicans say the change doesn’t go far enough. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said his party wants to see all religious employers exempt from the entire Affordable Care Act. On Friday the …
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Feb 13 2012
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.” — Albert Einstein …
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Feb 10 2012
This week on Uprising —
Analysts Find Bank Foreclosure Settlement Wholly Inadequate – Debt: The First 5000 Years – an In-Depth Interview with David Graeber
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Feb 10 2012
Following yesterday’s announcement that 49 state Attorneys General reached a $25 billion deal with 5 major mortgage lenders, a Forbes headline read, “Mortgage Deal: Little Impact for Big Banks.” The assessment that banks got off easy in the foreclosure fraud settlement was a consensus among analysts. The settlement sought redress for people who were victims of robo-signing and other rushed …
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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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