Jul
11
2013
(Reuters) – Union demonstrations snarled traffic in several Brazilian cities on Thursday morning as part of a one-day strike aimed at seizing the momentum of sweeping protests that shook Latin America’s largest economy last month.
Bus drivers, metalworkers, stevedores and bank tellers were among the unionized workers who took to the streets in at least dozen of Brazil’s biggest cities as organized labor sought to push workers’ rights to the forefront of the national debate.
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Jul
11
2013
Last week, while most of the country was celebrating the Fourth of July holiday, lawmakers in North Carolina took a bill designed to combat so-called “Sharia law” and, without any notice or warning, transformed it into a massive anti-abortion omnibus bill – one that included every single abortion restriction introduced in the 2013 legislative session. The proposals include restricting insurance coverage for abortion services, excessive restrictions on medication abortions and a host of unnecessary regulations …
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Jul
11
2013
Uprising’s Wednesday guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent journalist and regular contributor to AlterNet, Truthout and The Guardian,and co-founders of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:
“Six women activists from Greenpeace are in the process of scaling Western Europe’s tallest building, known as the Shard, in a protest against the oil industry’s drilling in …
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Jul
11
2013
Anti-abortion bills have been reproducing so rapidly in state after state, that this year has already seen 43 measures pass state legislatures.
About to become measure number 44 is Texas’ controversial abortion ban. Just a few weeks after Texas State Senator Wendy Davis famously helped to kill an anti-abortion bill via an epic filibuster, it was revived by Governor Rick …
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Jul
11
2013
In the same week that 30,000 California prisoners are estimated to be on hunger strike to protest their living conditions, an explosive new report by the Center for Investigative Reporting has found that nearly 150 women inmates were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in this state.
The CIR found that in many cases women were possibly coerced under the …
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Jul
11
2013
When the Supreme Court issued its rulings on two important same-sex marriage cases, headlines screamed that the court had “struck down” the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA, and “dismissed” California’s Proposition 8.
But was it really that simple?
UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler, who this week is helping us make sense of the Supreme Court’s decisions, explains that “the …
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Jul
11
2013
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” — Will Rogers …
Jul
10
2013
Battles rage nationwide over womens’ right to an abortion – we’ll find out what’s happening on the frontlines in Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states. And, the reporter who broke the story of sterilizations in California prisons joins us to discuss the sordid details. Plus, part 2 of my 3 part conversation with law professor Adam Winkler on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage rulings. …
Jul
10
2013
Chris Noxx is a Native American rap musician from Los Angeles, California!
We played the song “Grand Entry of the Thunderbird” on today’s show.
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Visit his website.
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