Jun
26
2012
Kori Cioca left the Coast Guard with a broken jaw and post traumatic stress disorder. She experienced near constant physical pain and mental anguish and attempted suicide. After months of waiting to be approved for surgery through the Veteran’s Administration, she was denied because she claimed her jaw was broken by her supervisor when he brutally raped her while she …
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Jun
25
2012
We’ll examine the Supreme Court’s decision on Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070. And, the Sierra Club launches new solar campaign in California to make solar energy more accessible to low income residents of color. Plus, Invisible War – a new documentary about sexual violence in the US military. …
Jun
22
2012
We’ll spend the hour with author and activist Selma James on her book Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning. This show is a re-broadcast – the Uprising crew is on vacation and will be back live on Tuesday June 26, 2012. …
Jun
22
2012
This week on Uprising —
Selma James: Sex, Race and Class – the Perspective of Winning – a rebroadcast
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Jun
21
2012
We’ll spend the hour with journalist and author Douglas Wissing on his book Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban. This show is a re-broadcast – the Uprising crew is on vacation and will be back live on Tuesday June 26, 2012. …
Jun
20
2012
We’ll spend the hour with author and activist Raj Patel on his book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. This show is a re-broadcast – the Uprising crew is on vacation and will be back live on Tuesday June 26, 2012. …
Jun
20
2012
Check out Roots Collective, a reggae/dub band based in Pomona, CA. We played their song “Disturb My Peace” today on Uprising.
More about them and streaming music at www.reverbnation.com/therootscollective
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 …
Jun
20
2012
Leaders from the world’s 20 largest economies gathered in Los Cabos, Mexico this week for the G20 to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone after recent elections in Greece failed to ease concern about the Euro’s future. The pro-austerity New Democracy party’s victory in the Greek parliamentary elections on Monday had been expected to calm fears about the future …
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Jun
20
2012
Burmese opposition leader and longtime democracy advocate, Aung San Suu Kyi, is currently touring Europe, two years after her release from house arrest in Burma. Suu Kyi’s release and world tour is part of Burma’s progress from dictatorship to democracy that began in 2010.
In the wake of her travel, Thein Sein, Burma’s president, announced Tuesday that he plans to …
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Jun
20
2012
Classic Shakespeare is featured alongside contemporary plays as part of this summer’s repertory season at the Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon. The acclaimed theater space in its spectacular outdoor setting hosts a variety of productions each year, often touching on social and political issues of the day. This year, the Theatricum presents Shakespeares’ Measure for Measure and A Midsummer Night’s …
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