Jun
14
2012
US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis earlier this week signed an agreement on migrant workers’ rights with Honduras, the Philippines, Peru and Ecuador. The agreement formalizes a partnership between the consulates of the four nations and the US Department of Labor to educate migrant workers in the country on their health, safety and wage rights. At the same time, President …
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Jun
14
2012
“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.” — Robert Penn Warren …
Jun
13
2012
We’ll look at the latest in Egypt with the upcoming run off elections, and continued violence against women. And, and update on the case of local activist Carlos Montes. Plus, acclaimed playwright Josefina Lopez joins us in studio to discuss her latest on-stage offering: Trio Los Machos. …
Jun
13
2012
Check out Heavy Young Heathens, a guitarist based in Los Angeles, CA. We played their song “Figueroa Street” today on Uprising.
More about them and streaming music at www.reverbnation.com/heavyyoungheathens
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
13
2012
Just a month after Vladimir Putin began his third term as Russia’s president, 70,000 Russian protestors took to the streets yesterday demanding that he step down. Chanting “Russia Without Putin” the protests were made even more poignant by occurring on Russia Day, a national holiday first celebrated on June 12th 1990 as a formal show of Russian independence from the …
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Jun
13
2012
Amidst the international soccer fever generated by the European Cup of Nations currently underway, the President of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) took time to urge the Israel Football Association to immediately seek help for a Palestinian player in eminent danger of death due to a hunger strike. The Palestinian in question is 25 year old Mahmoud Sarsak, …
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Jun
13
2012
Winemaker Casa Vinicola Zonin USA has just announced that it will donate a portion of its proceeds this Fall to the American Cancer Society to mark Breast Cancer awareness month. The company will donate one dollar for each bottle of Sparkling Rosé wine sold in September and October.
The American Cancer Society spends about $130 million each year on …
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Jun
13
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.
David Bronner, the CEO of the popular Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, was arrested in front of the White House on Monday after he locked himself and a dozen industrial hemp …
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Jun
13
2012
“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.” — Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal …
Jun
12
2012
We’ll examine the recent political upheavals in Russia with Professor David Kotz. And, yet another Palestinian prisoner risks his life on a hunger strike – we’ll find out about the case of soccer player Mahmoud Sarsak. Plus, Pink Ribbons, Inc. – a new documentary exposes the corporate marketing of breast cancer at the expense of women’s health. And this week’s Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar. …
