Mar 14 2012
The results of four more primaries for the GOP nomination for President are in, with former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum winning races in Alabama and Mississippi. The results showed a three-way split in the two Southern States, between Santorum and his rivals, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, who came in a close second and a close third respectively. Overall, the …
Mar 14 2012
Rob Briggs is on a mission to convince everyone that he was wrong. Briggs takes responsibility for crafting California’s death penalty system as we know it, and now he says Californians should vote to end capital punishment in the state. Thirty years ago Briggs, along with his father, then a California state Senator, spearheaded a successful effort to …
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Mar 14 2012
Nationwide, the price of consumer foods has risen by 4.4 percent in the past year, due to a combination of increased regulation, higher production costs, higher gas prices and speculation within global commodity markets. Though California exists as an agricultural oasis, the lack of accessibility to affordable and wholesome food plagues many communities within the state. A recent study by …
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Mar 14 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.
Last Monday, an estimated 5,000 California students, faculty, and their supporters gathered in Sacramento to demand an end to budget cuts. 72 mostly students were arrested hours after entering the …
Mar 13 2012
We’ll examine the results of the GOP primaries in Alabama, Mississippi, and Hawaii with our election analyst, Adele Stan. And, death penalty foes in California are attempting to put capital punishment on the ballot this year. Plus, local activists fight corporate control of our food system by organizing a food co-operative. And this week’s Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar. …
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Mar 13 2012
Check out Broken Arrow Blues Band, from Detroit, Michigan. We played their song “Muddy Water Blues” today on Uprising.
Watch the music video for “The River Is Risin'”
More about Broken Arrow Blues Band at www.brokenarrowbluesband.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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Mar 13 2012
On March 13, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Venice area activists about the fight against gentrification: David Busch, an activist with the Spirit of Venice Coalition, Maria Fitzsimmons, and organizer with People Organized for Westside Renewal, or POWER, and Kendra Moore, a POWER leader and president of the Holiday Venice Tenant Action Committee.
Watch a video of the interview here:
Martina Steiner recorded this interview. …
Mar 13 2012
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This past Monday saw the deadliest “intentional” attack on Afghan civilians by the US since the start of the ten year long war in Afghanistan. An unnamed US Army staff sergeant walked a mile in the middle of the night to two different villages near his base in southern Afghanistan and murdered 16 civilians, including 9 children and …
Mar 13 2012
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LA’s Macarthur Park area is known for its diverse immigrant population, open spaces, and its street vendors. Now, some vendors are claiming harassment by the Los Angeles Police Department through threats and tickets. It is illegal in Los Angeles to operate a street vending business without a license. However, licensing fees are prohibitively high for the primarily low-income …
Mar 13 2012
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Residents and activists in Venice beach say police are harassing community members and the homeless as a new wave of gentrification hits the city, best known for its eclectic beach-loving population. Last Wednesday dozens of homeless people lost their personal belongings when the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, in cooperation with the LA Police Department, raided a homeless …
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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