Apr 12 2012
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We’ll spend the hour with Maria Armoudian, author of Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World. …
Archive for April, 2012
Apr 11 2012
Obama Pushes Buffett Rule to Tax Millionaires
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As tax day approaches, ordinary Americans are struggling to meet the IRS’s deadline to fork over a chunk of their paychecks to the government and wonder whether there will be enough left over to pay for rent, food, school fees, doctor visits, and more. But most among the richest 1% of Americans are secure in the knowledge that …
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Apr 11 2012
New Report Exposes California’s Richest 1% And Their Impact on 99% of Californians
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California’s CEOs, on average, got paid 275 times more than the average worker in 2007. Compared to the rest of the country the income gap in California widened more than anywhere else between 1978 and 2007, and the picture has not improved since. A report released just yesterday, conducted by a coalition of California labor and community advocates …
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Apr 11 2012
Student Debt Bubble Grows Ominously Large
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The amount of outstanding debt among students in the United States now sits at over 1 trillion dollars, surpassing both credit cards and auto loans as the leading source of American indebtedness. The recent finding by the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has kicked-off national concern over the possibility that there is a student debt bubble about to burst. …
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Apr 11 2012
April 11, 2012
“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.” — Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
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Apr 11 2012
Rose Aguilar on Van Jones’ Claim that Grassroots Activists ‘Sat Down’ During Start of Obama Tenure
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.
Van Jones, the long-time racial and social justice activist who served as the green jobs adviser in the White House in 2009, is currently doing a media tour for his …
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Apr 10 2012
April 11, 2012
As President Obama pushes the Buffett Rule on taxing the rich, we’ll be in joined in studio by Chuck Collins, author of The Moral Measure of the Economy. And, California’s richest 1% are under scrutiny in a new report. Plus, a look at the crippling nature of student loans nationally, and this week’s Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar. …
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Apr 10 2012
PAULI PESH and the VITALS
Check out Mariachi El Bronx, a band based in Los Angeles, California. We played their song “48 Roses” today on Uprising.
More about them at www.pauliepesh.com
Streaming music at www.myspace.com/pauliepesh
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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Apr 10 2012
Proposed LA Football Stadium Draws Serious Concern Over Traffic, Pollution, and Financing
Los Angeles is considering a 72,000 seat, $1.5 billion, football stadium called Farmers Field, in the heart of downtown LA. On April 10, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed local activists, Zahirah W. Mann an Attorney with Community Economic Development Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Becky Dennison with Community Action Network, about community concerns about the stadium.
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Apr 10 2012
Kendrec McDade Killing Provokes Outrage in Pasadena and Beyond
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A day before a grand jury was set to convene in Florida to hear evidence in the case of the shooting death of 17 year old Trayvon Martin, Florida’s Attorney General announced that she would continue her own investigation instead of turning to the grand jury. The announcement was unexpected given the heightened political nature of the incident, …
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