Apr 17 2012
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As Americans struggle to meet today’s deadline to file taxes on income earned in 2011, the US Senate stopped in its tracks a piece of legislation aimed at taxing the rich. The so-called Buffett Rule, named after benevolent billionaire Warren Buffett, failed to move ahead for debate with 51 votes in favor, and 45 against. The Fair Share Tax …
Apr 17 2012
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After 3 years in office LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck is under scrutiny by the civilian Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners for a lack of disciplinary action against his officers. Since Beck took over the third largest Police Department in the US in 2009, the police commission has ruled on 90 cases of officers using deadly force against …
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Apr 17 2012
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer last week signed into law the Women’s Health and Safety Act, which reproductive rights advocates say could harm women. The new legislation requires schools to promote raising a baby, or adoption, as the best outcomes of a pregnancy and it requires clinics to notify patients against being coerced into abortion. It also requires that a …
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Apr 17 2012
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” — Susan B. Anthony …
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Apr 17 2012
Check out Patrolled By Radar, a roots rock band based in Los Angeles, California. We played their song “New Fight Song” today on Uprising.
More about them at www.patrolledbyradar.com
Streaming music at www.reverbnation.com/patrolledbyradar
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 16 2012
We’ll survey the protests happening nationally on tax day as public anger grows over low corporate tax rates. And, LA’s police commission breaks with LAPD Police Chief over disciplinary measures against police offices using deadly force. And, a look at Arizona’s dangerous new abortion law. …
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Apr 16 2012
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A team of 30 UN observers are monitoring a five-day cease-fire in Syria today that UN Secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has already called “very fragile.” Neighborhoods with strong opposition to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad came under heavy fire over the weekend, leading to widespread doubt that his regime would honor the cease-fire or engage in dialogue as called …
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Apr 16 2012
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Immigrants in South West Colorado could see their access to vital food, health care,and shelter disrupted following a decision by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, or CCHD, to cut an annual $30,000 grant to the Durango based Compañeros charity. Compañeros operates on a yearly budget of just $55,000. It lost the majority of its funding from CCHD …
Apr 16 2012
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The privatization of public education and stagnant wages are two reasons why California State University Faculty are considering a strike. Starting today and going for two weeks, the 23,000 members of the California Faculty Association at 23 campuses statewide will vote on whether their union board may authorize a strike if contract negotiations fail. CSU administration and the union …
Apr 16 2012
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.” — Samuel Gompers …
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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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