Mar 23 2012
Occupy Wall Street Resumes Actions In Earnest Despite NYPD Brutality
A mass march of thousands in New York City this week expressed outrage at the killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a man who remains free. The “Million Hoodie March” was attended by thousands of people affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, and came just days after a revival of street activities by the movement. Earlier in …
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Hundreds of California prisoners and their supporters have petitioned the United Nations to investigate the effects of solitary confinement in the “secure housing units” of state prisons, saying the practice classifies as “torture.” Currently about 4000 prisoners are held in solitary confinement. Their plight was highlighted last summer when many prisoners undertook a hunger strike to protest their conditions. A …
Legislation restricting the rights of women to independently make healthcare choices continues to be introduced in state legislatures at a dizzying pace, accompanied by debates that reveal attitudes about women that harken to a much earlier era. This week, the Idaho state senate debated proposed legislation requiring any women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound first, even …
A new documentary called Visions of Abolition, by UCR Professor Setsu Shigematsu explores the racist aspect of the prison system and the alternatives that could be imagined to our current system of retributive justice. Visions of Abolition features Angela Davis, Ruthie Gilmore, Dylan Rodriguez, Susan Burton, and many others involved in an organization called Critical Resistance, and the growing prison abolition movement. 
On Thursday March 22nd, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Mike Malinin, Green Party member and lifelong environmentalist who has worked for Greenpeace and volunteered for numerous other environmental causes, also happens to be the drummer for rock band The Goo Goo Dolls, and Marcy Winograd, ran for Congress with the Democratic Party several times here in Southern California, formerly with Progressive Democrats of America, now a member of …
President Obama is expected to announce his approval for partial construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Cushing, Oaklahoma today. Under a deadline imposed by Congress, Obama in January did not approve a permit for the 1,700 mile pipeline slated to run from Alberta, Canada to the US Gulf Coast. Environmentalists and a broad coalition of groups …
