Jul 16 2013
Launching our brand new series on Parenting and Child Development today is a new study with surprising results on how political tendencies may begin brewing during childhood.
A survey that was begun more than 25 years ago, followed more than 3000 people from childhood into adulthood and found that boys who were raised with sisters were more likely to grow …
Jul 16 2013
“Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.” — George Carlin
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Jul 16 2013
Debate over a proposed open-pit iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin went from heated to outright bizarre last week when masked guards brandishing assault rifles showed up at the site in the remote and scenic wilderness of Penokee Hills.
Local activist Rob Ganson, 56, first came upon three heavily-armed guards while leading a small group on a hike to view the mining site. (The drilling site is on private land, but the owner has been given …
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Jul 16 2013
BEIJING — As compensation for an official act of injustice, the $429 a Chinese court awarded the mother of a rape victim on Monday was relatively paltry. Symbolically, the money carried a wallop.
That is because the award, issued by a high court in Hunan Province in southern China, was an explicit acknowledgment that the mother, Tang Hui, had been wrongly sentenced to a labor camp last year after she publicly demanded that some of …
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Jul 16 2013
At the height of the clergy sex-abuse scandal in 2002, Catholic leaders stayed silent as California lawmakers passed a landmark bill that gave hundreds of accusers extra time to file civil lawsuits. The consequences were costly.
California dioceses paid $1.2 billion in settlements and released thousands of confidential documents that showed their leaders, including Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, had made plans to shield admitted molesters from law enforcement.
Now, state legislators are considering a …
Jul 15 2013
Black youth respond to George Zimmerman’s acquittal – we’ll speak with a member of the Black Youth Project. And, a special report by Uprising’s Bipasha Shom from a march in solidarity with California Prisoners on hunger strike. Plus, the first in a new series on Parenting and Child Development – we’ll speak with a researcher who uncovered that boys with sisters are more likely to become Republicans when they grow up. …
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Jul 15 2013
Food stamp recipients, trying to live on just over $30 of food a week, have a new reason to worry – House Republicans want to cut the food stamp program either dramatically or altogether.
A vote on Thursday July 11, 2013 split off, for the first time in decades, the federal government’s food stamp program from the Farm Bill to which it is traditionally attached. An earlier version of the …
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Jul 15 2013
Even before the verdict in the Zimmerman case was announced, and certainly after, some elected officials and community leaders in the white and black communities, including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton had begun urging people to remain calm and not resort to a violent response.
There have been demonstrations in many cities including thousands marching in New York, and …
Jul 15 2013
More than ten thousand people marched in New York city over the weekend expressing their outrage over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The outrage focused on the danger young people of color face in the wake of the decision, as well as on the racism of the US criminal justice system, among other …
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Jul 15 2013
President Obama, who had stayed away from making any comments during the trial of George Zimmerman, made a statement on Sunday saying “we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.”
He urged people to take action against gun control as one way to honor Trayvon Martin.
Last year, soon after the killing, the President had remarked, “If …
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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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