Oct 25 2012
While the issue of civil liberties was a hot topic under President George W. Bush’s tenure, particularly over the creation of the Homeland Security Department and the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, little is heard in the public discourse these days about on-going infringements of people’s rights. President Obama’s administration has largely continued, and in some arenas, expanded on …
Oct 25 2012
Shahid Buttar is the Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. In October 2012, he spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about “fusion centers” in the US, how they are coming under scrutiny, and how the Berkeley City Council has curbed their reach.
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Bipasha Shom recorded this interview. …
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Oct 25 2012
A ballot measure that has garnered little attention, but could potentially offset California’s carbon foot print and bring in millions of dollars into the state, is proposition 39. The proposition, backed by billionaire environmentalist, Tom Steyer, is a response to legislation signed by former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger that gave out-of-state corporations an incentive for not creating facilities in California and …
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Oct 25 2012
BRUSSELS — Asserting that it was fed up with a policy of “men only” for top jobs, the European Parliament on Thursday narrowly rejected the nomination of Yves Mersch to the executive board of the European Central Bank.
The parliament does not have the power to require that women be considered, and governments still could approve the nomination of Mr. Mersch to a post that has been vacant for months even as the region’s sovereign debt …
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Oct 25 2012
JULIAN Assange’s WikiLeaks website last night started publishing more than 100 US Department of Defense documents including the first prisoner treatment manual for Guantanamo Bay.
The latest release by the anti-secrecy site comes as Mr Assange, who faces charges of rape and sexual assault in Sweden, remains holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London.
Mr Assange said in a statement that the newly released documents exposed military detention policies at camps in Iraq and at the …
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Oct 24 2012
SACRAMENTO — In a closely contested state Senate campaign, Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani has been urging voters to judge her on her legislative achievements, saying on her website that she is “proud to have a record of standing up for the people of my district.”
Voters who try to examine the record of the Central Valley Democrat may come away with the wrong impression.
They would not be able to tell that Galgiani remained silent during 136 votes, …
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Oct 24 2012
DUBAI, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Kuwait risks sliding into Arab Spring-style protests over a forthcoming election that has polarised opinion in the Gulf Arab state and posed an unprecedented challenge to the authority of the once revered emir, a close Western ally.
Kuwait saw some of the worst violence in its recent history when tens of thousands of demonstrators – out of a native population of just 1.2 million – protested this week at changes to …
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Oct 24 2012
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar was a guest on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes this past Sunday October 28th, 2012. Watch video clips of the show on the topics of military spending and sanctions on Iran below:
A New Outlook on Defense Spending
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Oct 24 2012
Check out PebaLuna, a band from Long Beach, CA!
We played their song “No, I Can’t” on today’s show.
Listen to their music!
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Oct 24 2012
With the third and final Presidential debate of the election season now complete, pollsters around the country are scrambling to determine how the American public will vote in the upcoming election less than two weeks away. While most mainstream analysts felt that Obama won Monday night’s debate, others were left trying to distinguish between the two major party candidates who …
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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