Aug 07 2012
With a net income of $21.6 million according to 2010 tax records, Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney is the third richest person to run for U.S. president. Romney reluctantly released his 2010 tax records and an estimate of his 2011 taxes after considerable public pressure. Based on the released tax returns, financial analysts say the prospective Republican candidate donated …
Aug 07 2012
“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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Aug 06 2012
A look at the weekend shooting at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin and what it means for the Sikh community. Plus, money in the Mormon church – journalist Caroline Winter shares her new report.
NOTE: Until such a time as Uprising has a new paid assistant producer, the program will be only half hour long. Click here for more information. …
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Aug 06 2012
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. …
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Aug 06 2012
Author and venerated political commentator, Gore Vidal, passed away on Tuesday, July 31st at the age of 86. Vidal wrote over 20 books in his lifetime, including The City and the Pillar which pushed social boundaries by depicting homosexuality in the late 1940s. Vidal’s work was characterized by an intellectual wit and vigor that he used to skewer the pretensions …
Aug 06 2012
Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed $23 billion water tunnel is being called a corporate water-grab scheme by environmental and consumer advocacy groups organizing to stop it.
The Peripheral Tunnels project announced this month will divert water from the Sacramento river into two underground tunnels underneath the Sacramento Delta to a pumping facility 37 miles to the south. The water would eventually be …
Aug 06 2012
Pacifica management has decided to hire a new Assistant Producer for Uprising after it became clear that the program could not continue with just one full-time paid staffer. Uprising is pleased to announce the hire of one if its interns, Bipasha Shom, who will temporarily be filling the Assistant Producer position.
Uprising will resume in it’s regular hour-long format on Friday August 10th, 2012.
Citing ‘Austerity Measures,’ Pacifica Cuts Uprising Staff by Half – 08/06/12
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Aug 01 2012
Saturday August 4th the IDEPSCA Aprendamos in collaboration with Homies Unidos and Centro Cultural de Techantit will hold a mural inauguration for a joint Peace Mural project. The public is welcome to join. The ingauration is from 5pm – 8pm at 668 S. Bonnie Brae 90057, in the alley between Burlington Street and Bonnie Brea at Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. …
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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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