Jan 22 2013
Mandolin Orange
Mandolin Orange from Carrboro, North Carolina!
We played the song “These Old Wheels” on today’s show.
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Archive for January, 2013
Jan 22 2013
How Progressive Was Obama’s Inauguration Speech
President Obama this weekend took his oath of office and was inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for his second term. With hundreds of thousands of his supporters gathered on the capitol mall, Obama delivered his speech on the steps of the US capitol. Following the speech he signed several documents, and participated in the official inauguration ceremony after …
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Jan 22 2013
Gather At The Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
With close to a million people looking on, President Barack Obama renewed his oath of office yesterday on the steps of the Capitol Building with a speech sprinkled with civil rights issues. Invoking the memory of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the President proclaimed, “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that all of us …
Jan 22 2013
Army Corps of Engineers Under Fire For Destroying Local LA Wildlife Preserve
In response to growing public outcry, State officials set a deadline last week for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explain why the agency razed 43 acres of wildlife habitat in the Sepulveda Basin. The Army Corps have until February 11 to file a report detailing the extent of damage to local plant life as well as an assessment …
Jan 18 2013
Weekly Digest – 01/18/13
This week on Uprising —
Are President Obama’s Policies Strong Enough to Address the Root Causes of Gun Violence? – Afghanistan’s New Oil and Gas Industry May Be Sparking a New Front in the War – Palestinian Activist Iyad Burnat, Featured in Oscar Nominated Doc, Five Broken Cameras, Shares His Experiences
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Jan 18 2013
Coming up on January 22, 2013
We’ll get an update on the latest in the French military action in Mali, and how the US’s involvement may be increasing. Plus, a new book Gather at the Table addresses the issues of racial equity and justice – we’ll speak with the book’s two authors Tom DeWolf and Sharon Leslie Morgan. Plus, the Army Corps of Engineers are under fire recently for destroying a local wildlife reserve – we’ll speak with a conservation activist …
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Jan 18 2013
NBC: French to send 1,000 more troops to Mali; US playing supporting role
France will send about 1,000 troops and armored vehicles to Mali over the next few days with the support of U.S military and intelligence operations, upping the ante in its effort to turn back Islamic militants threatening to topple the north African nation’s government, U.S. national security officials told NBC News on Monday.
French mechanized forces will join approximately 500 French troops already on the ground in the country, battling fighters from at least …
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Jan 18 2013
Amnesty International: Time to end the inaction over killings of women in Guatemala
Authorities in Guatemala are putting the lives of women at risk by systematically failing to protect them and ensure those responsible for the hundreds of killings that take place each year face justice, Amnesty International said today after it emerged two young girls and two women had been brutally slain.
On 16 January, the bodies of the two girls were found in a street in Guatemala City. Two other women were also found dead, in separate …
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Jan 18 2013
Huff Post: Tibet Self-Immolations: China Clamps Down Hard On ‘Burning’ Protests
BEIJING — Chinese authorities are responding to an intensified wave of Tibetan self-immolation protests against Chinese rule by clamping down even harder – criminalizing the suicides, arresting protesters’ friends and even confiscating thousands of satellite TV dishes.
The harsh measures provide an early indication that the country’s new leadership is not easing up on Tibet despite the burning protests and international condemnation.
For months, as Tibetans across western China doused themselves in gasoline and set themselves alight, …
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Jan 18 2013
Huff Post: Obama Needs A Plan To Help Black America, Say Activists, Economists
WASHINGTON — Less than a month after President Barack Obama won his second term, the National Urban League summoned Bernard Anderson to a meeting in the capital.
The invitation was no surprise. Anderson is giant: an economist and prominent author, the first African American granted tenure at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, a former assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Labor and chair of the National Urban League’s Council of Economic Advisers.
The real surprise …
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