Jun
15
2012
Al Bornstein was born in 1948, into a Conservative Jewish East coast family. He went to college at the prestigious Brown University, graduated in 1969, and in the summer of 1970 stumbled onto a Scientology center in Denver, Colorado. There Bornstein began taking classes, and was swiftly recruited into the Scientologists’ elite sailing crew, the Sea Org. Al signed a …
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Jun
15
2012
Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.
Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.
Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch …
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Jun
15
2012
“I found that all roads in life lead nowhere. So you might as well choose the road that has the most heart and is the most fun.” – Kate Bornstein from A Queer and Pleasant Danger …
Jun
15
2012
Call Me Kuchu, a documentary that follows the life of David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay activist, is making its US premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 16-17, 2012. The film follows David Kato’s fight against Uganda’s homophobic laws and his struggle for the rights of the LGBT community. Call Me Kuchu was filmed when the Anti-Homosexuality Bill was first introduced – a bill that gained steam …
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Jun
14
2012
We’ll examine how the student movement in Mexico continues to build amidst revelations of media manipulation. And, the director of the award winning new documentary Call Me Kuchu, about the attacks on Uganda’s LGBT community, joins me in studio. Plus, author Kate Bornstein on her new book, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely …
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Jun
14
2012
Trio Los Machos made its world premiere in Los Angeles this month during the 10th anniversary year of Josefina Lopez’ groundbreaking film based on her play, Real Women Have Curves, that both entertained and educated mainstream audiences in 2002 about the complex identities of Latina women in the US. A decade later, Trio Los Machos is Lopez’s homage to her father, honoring Latino men. It’s being called a comedic Latino …
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Jun
14
2012

Check out The Delirians, a reggae/ska band based in Los Angeles, CA. We played their song “Big Man’s Train, Rich Man’s Train” today on Uprising.
More about them and streaming music at www.reverbnation.com/thedelirians
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
14
2012
Egypt’s highest court declared the parliament invalid Thursday, and the country’s interim military rulers promptly declared full legislative authority, triggering a new level of chaos and confusion in the country’s leadership.
The Supreme Constitutional Court found that all articles making up the law that regulated parliamentary elections are invalid, said Showee Elsayed, a constitutional lawyer.
The ruling means that parliament must be dissolved, state TV reported.
Parliament has been in session for just over four months. It is …
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Jun
14
2012
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court has ruled just this morning that one third of its Parliament would be dissolved because it was elected fraudulently. The move complicates the upcoming Presidential run-off election which is set to take place this weekend. Additionally, just days ago, the Justice Ministry empowered Egypt’s military police and intelligence officers to arrest civilians. That power will remain …
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Jun
14
2012
Long time Chicano activist based in Los Angeles, Carlos Montes, faced a trial on Tuesday June 5th that ended in what he and his supporters called a victory. Montes was charged with four felonies involving the purchase of a gun. If convicted Montes could have faced up to 12 years in prison. The case against him was initiated by the …
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