Jul
30
2013
This weekend, deputies from Escambia County, Florida shot an unarmed man who went to grab cigarettes from the car parked in the driveway of his mother’s home. A neighbor called police at 2 a.m. because he suspected 60-year-old Roy Middleton was stealing the car. Things quickly escalated when two deputies arrived and ordered Middleton to “get your hands where I can see them,” the Pensacola News Journal reports:
[Middleton] said he initially …
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Jul
30
2013
“Hundreds of American cities are already locked into watery futures and we are growing that group very rapidly.”
That’s the message from Dr. Ben Strauss, the lead author of a new analysis of climate change data that shows the amount of carbon pollution already in the atmosphere could lead to “more than 4 feet of sea level rise past today’s levels” which would be enough, at high tide, to “submerge more than half of today’s population …
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Jul
30
2013
The editor of a Saudi Arabian social website has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an Internet forum that violates Islamic values and propagates liberal thought, Saudi media reported today.
Raif Badawi, who started the “Free Saudi Liberals” website to discuss the role of religion in Saudi Arabia, has been held since June 2012 on charges of cyber crime and disobeying his father – a crime in the conservative …
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Jul
29
2013
We’ll cover the trial of Bradley Manning in advance of the military judge’s verdict that is sure to have far-reaching implications. And, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority kick off in DC – we’ll examine the prospects for success. Plus, the human history of war – we’ll explore competing scientific theories of whether war is an inevitable part of human nature or if it is a modern invention. …
Jul
29
2013
Fast food workers, who are among the lowest paid in the nation are once more walking off their jobs to protest their subsistence wages.
Workers in seven cities including New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Kansas City, are going on strike all week beginning this morning – they want greater pay and an end to retaliatory actions against union organizing activities. …
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Jul
29
2013
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is titled “The Coming Acquittal”. Abu Jamal recorded this piece the day before the actual verdict in George Zimmerman’s trial came in.
Listen to Abu Jamal’s commentaries online at www.prisonradio.org. …
Jul
29
2013
“Don’t mourn, organize” is a phrase often used on the left but conservatives seemed to have embraced that sentiment with alacrity after last November’s Presidential defeat.
A newly formed group of GOP elected officials, conservative Tea Party activists and right wing journalists have organized under the name of Groundswell, and apparently have a “30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform …
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Jul
29
2013
Despite resigning in shame in 2011, former New York Congressman Anthon Weiner returned to political life this year with a bid for Mayor of New York City just as yet another sex scandal came to light.
Several women have come forward claiming Mr Weiner sent them sexually explicit text messages. Now, women’s groups are unapologetically calling his behavior sexist and …
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Jul
29
2013
“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.” — Susan B. Anthony
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Uprising’s Friday guest expert Rose Aguilar, op-ed writer for Al Jazeera English and host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco, analyzes today’s news headlines: 
