May 10 2012
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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May 10 2012
Check out Warpaint, a rock band in based in Los Angeles, CA. We played their song “Undertow” today on Uprising.
More about them and streaming music at www.warpaintwarpaint.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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May 09 2012
We’ll revisit the case of Kelly Thomas, the Fullerton homeless man who died after being beaten by police officers. And, a beloved continuing education school in LA faces closure. Plus, Evangeline: The Queen of Make Believe – a new play opens locally, featuring the music of Los Lobos – we’ll be joined by the play’s writers and directors. …
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May 09 2012
While tourists, and even many Angelenos, conjure Hollywood Boulevard, or Olvera street as best representing the city’s significance, there are countless street corners, buildings, parks, and other spaces whose cultural and political history is part of LA’s fabric, but in danger of being obscured by the glamor and glitz that conventional guidebooks direct tourists toward.
Now, a new book called A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, written by Laura Pulido, …
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May 09 2012
In Los Angeles, Occupy Fights Foreclosure activists staged a “fraudulent foreclosure” at the home of a BofA Executive in Pasadena to draw attention to the plight of one LA family fighting foreclosure by BofA. Dirma Rodriquez is a mother of 5 children, including one severely disabled daughter. She and her supporters say BofA fraudulently foreclosed on her after approving her mortgage modification. Activists estimate the bank may have financially benefited …
May 09 2012
Check out The Clouds, a rock band in based in Jakarta, Indonesia. We played their song “Samar” today on Uprising.
More about them at www.reverbnation.com/thecloudsjkt
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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May 09 2012
Voters in Wisconsin yesterday chose Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to run against incumbent Governor Scott Walker in the June 5th gubernatorial recall election. Barrett easily beat his opponents, winning 56 out of 72 Wisconsin counties. The embattled Governor Walker, who in facing a recall, has to fight to keep his job, easily beat his GOP opponent in yesterday’s primary, but …
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May 09 2012
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside of the Bank of America shareholders meeting today in Charlotte, North Carolina to protest the financial institution that is central to the housing and foreclosure crisis. BofA shareholders are reportedly going to introduce a resolution to end political spending by the bank, following a similar action by shareholders of US manufacturer 3M. Public …
May 09 2012
Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week requested the City Council vote on an ordinance banning tents from all public parks. The ordinance is based on an existing law that disallows camping in parks but is widely seen as an attempt to prevent a new Occupy LA encampment on the City Hall lawn. Groups advocating for the city’s homeless are …
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May 09 2012
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.
A few days ago, Uprising reported on the Palestinian prisoners who began their fourth week of hunger strikes to protest abusive and substandard conditions in Israeli jails.
Here in the …
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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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