“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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Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is “Beyond Trayvon”.

Listen to Abu Jamal’s commentaries online at www.prisonradio.org. …

Check out Odabya Jones, an alternative/ blues/ funk musician Los Angeles, California. We played his song “Swagger” today on Uprising.

More about him at www.odabyajones.com

Streaming music at www.reverbnation.com/odabyajones

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 …

This week on Uprising —

Obama Pushes Buffett Rule to Tax Millionaires – Student Debt Bubble Grows Ominously Large – The Activist Beat by Rose Aguilar – Living “Illegal”: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration

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Uprising returns live with Toby Jones to discuss Bahraini protests against next week’s Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix. Also, a conversation with Catholics United about its efforts to raise money for charitable organizations de-funded after pressure by Catholic Bishops and right-wing organizations, and Lillian Taiz, President of the California Faculty Association for the California State University system joins us to talk about a strike vote beginning on Monday. …

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This is a rebroadcast of Uprising that originally aired August 10, 2011

The board of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s embattled media conglomerate, met in Los Angeles this week. It was the first meeting since the phone hacking scandal broke in the UK, shaking the media empire’s foundations like never before. But according to writer and radio host Maria Armoudian, News Corps’ “True Scandals” are much worse than …

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KPFK Presents TAVIS SMILEY and DR. CORNEL WEST on tour with their new book THE RICH AND THE REST OF US: A POVERTY MANIFESTO.

When: Saturday April 15th, Event start time 4:00pm (Doors will open at 2:30pm)

Where: Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90005

YOUR $20 TICKET INCLUDES A COPY OF THE BOOK! This is a benefit for KPFK 90.7 FM. …

Meet author and journalist MARIA ARMOUDIAN
as she presents her recently published book
“KILL THE MESSENGER:
The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World”

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 – 8:00PM
ABRIL BOOKSTORE – 415 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA

Admission is Free. Wine and Cheese Reception to follow. For more information, call (818) 243-4112.

For complete details visit Abril Books …

“The spirit of resistance not just to political power but to the corporations that pull the puppet strings of our politicians, the reoccupation of public space that had been co-opted by the elites, the reassertion of rights that had languished for too long: all of this and more [has] provided an outline for a new politics of protest.” — John Nichols, from Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street …

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker officially began campaigning this week to keep his seat in the June 5th Gubernatorial recall election. Wisconsinites will go to the polls first on May 8th to elect a Democrat to run against the Republican Governor, who became the target of a historic Wisconsin protest movement and subsequent recall campaign starting last year. In February 2011,Walker, in office for less than 2 …

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