Feb 08 2012
A federal appeals panel on Tuesday voted to strike down California’s controversial same-sex marriage ban by a 2-1 vote, opening the door to a Supreme Court show-down later this year. Proposition 8 was passed by 52% of California voters in 2008 banning same-sex marriage after the California Supreme Court opened the door for couples to marry. About 18,000 couples did …
Feb 08 2012
” Every movement for progress in America has been met by vehement resistance, by a counter-movement hell-bent on dragging America back to a less fair, less equal, and less free time. America is a better place than we have seemed to be in our recent seasons of delirium. It is time to reaffirm that the moral arc of history bends toward justice. And to remember that the arc is long and that change is not …
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Feb 07 2012
We’ll report on the three GOP primaries taking place in Missouri, Colorado, and Minnesota. Plus, another legal victory on the path toward legalizing same-sex marriage in California. And, Nancy L Cohen on her book Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution is Polarizing America. …
Feb 07 2012
When the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization announced on Friday that it would continue funding Planned Parenthood through its current grant, a statement from its founder urged, [e]veryone who has participated in this conversation… to help us move past this issue.” The request has not been heeded by many journalists and concerned women who were outraged when Komen …
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Feb 07 2012
Occupy protesters were forcefully evicted from McPherson square in Washington DC on Saturday by National Park Police who conducted what they referred to as a “compliance inspection,” ending the movement’s four month-long occupation of the public space. Police confirmed that 11 arrests had been made and stood watch as city sanitation workers in full bio-hazard suits removed and cleared the …
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Feb 07 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.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the LADWP) is the largest publicly owned utility company in the country …
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Feb 07 2012
“If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank.” — American proverb, quoted in David Graeber’s book, Debt: The First 5000 Years …
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Feb 06 2012
David Graeber is an American anthropologist, author, and activist who teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. His book, Debt: The First Five Thousand Years, is the topic of our discussion. In it, Graeber shows how debt, and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates across the world and have given rise to innumerable uprisings. He explores the history of money and credit, and how societies have been …
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Feb 06 2012
Mitt Romney’s easy win in Nevada on Saturday secured his place as the frontrunner of the pack of GOP candidates vying for their party’s nomination for President. During his Nevada victory speech Romney continued his Florida strategy and campaigned against President Obama rather than his fellow Republicans.
However an ABC/Washington Post poll this weekend found Romney is not the voter’s …
Feb 06 2012
After weeks of discussion, the solution to Greece’s debt crisis continues to confound leaders. European officials have been pressuring Greek leaders to accept a $171 billion bailout and all the accompanying spending cuts. Greece is among many European nations struggling with a debt that grew out of the global recession.
Today we spend the rest of the program examining the …
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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