Mar 08 2012
Check out Mrs. Musician, a rock band from San Diego, Ca. We played their song “There Is No God” today on Uprising.
For more information and streaming music visit www.mrsmagicianband.wordpress.com
If you know of an independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send an email to mail@uprisingradio.org.
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Mar 07 2012
We’ll commemorate International Women’s Day with guests Loretta Ross and Yifat Susskind, examining the challenges women face domestically and internationally. And, what’s behind President Obama’s sudden decision to move the G8 summit from Chicago to Camp David? Plus, an update on the pending legal cases of Occupy LA activists arrested on the night of the November 30th raid.
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Mar 07 2012
On March 7, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Neidi Dominguez, an organizer with the CLEAN Carwash Campaign, and Felipe Villarreal, a former worker of Robertson Car Wash who was terminated on suspicion of union involvement, about the campaign to unionize carwash workers in LA.
Find out more at www.cleancarwashla.org.
Watch a video of the interview here:
Unionized Carwashes in Los Angeles:
Bonus Carwash in Santa Monica, 2800 Lincoln …
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Mar 07 2012
Check out Little Red Lung, a rock band from Los Angeles, Ca. We played their song “Rare Bird” today on Uprising.
Watch them perform “50 Fingers”:
For more information and streaming music visit www.littleredlung.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 07 2012
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home…the factory, farm or office …unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, speaking to the United Nations in 1953
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Mar 07 2012
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With the results from Super Tuesday races just in, Mitt Romney still appears to be the front runner winning in six out of ten states: Alaska, Idaho, Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Rick Santorum still trails him, winning in three states: North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Newt Gingrich won the race in Georgia – the state he represented …
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Mar 07 2012
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The 18 day Egyptian revolution captured the world’s attention just over a year ago, but media blackouts and the narrow scope of news coverage here in the US, resulted in few candid, real-time accounts of events by Egyptians on the ground. In his remarkable new book, Liberation Square: Inside the …
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Mar 07 2012
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Two car washes in Los Angeles announced in late February that they would unionize, marking the latest victory for a long-fought campaign for immigrant worker rights. California leads the nation in both the number of establishments and employees in the carwash industry. Los Angeles’s auto-centric neighborhoods in particular are filled with carwashes that employ largely first-generation immigrant labor in …
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Mar 06 2012
We’ll analyze the results of Super Tuesday races for the GOP Presidential nomination with out election analyst Ari Berman. And, the third and final part of our interview with Ashraf Khalil on his book, Liberation Square. Plus, a look at an increasingly successful campaign to unionize car wash workers in Los Angeles. And this week’s Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar. …
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Mar 06 2012
Check out The Kensingtons, a punk rock band from Providence, Rhode Island. We played their song “Optimism” today on Uprising.
For more information and streaming music visit www.myspace.com/thekensingtonspunk.
If you know of an independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send an email to mail@uprisingradio.org.
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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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