Jul 19 2013
McDonald’s Corporation has come under fire for launching a new website in conjunction with Visa, to help its employees manage their money.
The problem is that the online budgeting tool, well-meaning as it may be, is quite revealing – it assumes that McDonalds’ employees work a second job to make ends meet.
And it shows how clueless company executives are …
Jul 19 2013
Victor Serge is a little known Russian Revolutionary whose political activism and prolific writings are being seen in a new light today.
The Bolshevist leader joined Russia’s communist party after the 1917 revolution and went on to join the so-called Left Opposition.
Ever vigilant of the abuse of power, Serge became one of Stalin’s strongest critics, and faced years of …
Jul 19 2013
“There is a difference between an inconsequential left and a consequential right, the difference is they both do the same things, but one says they don’t.” – Subcommandante Marcos …
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Jul 18 2013
We’ll get an update on the trial of Bradley Manning with journalist Kevin Gosztola. And how police departments are gathering data on millions of people as they move around in their cars. Plus, a look at McDonald’s new online employee budgeting tool which even business journals are decrying. And the third and final part of my conversation with Suzi Weissman on her book Victor Serge: A Political Biography. And this week’s Rethink Reviews. …
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Jul 18 2013
Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed the nation’s toughest set of abortion restrictions into law Thursday, declaring a major victory for abortion opponents after weeks of divisive political debate.
The bill passed over the strong protests of Democrats and abortion-rights supporters. Abortion-rights activists and clinic operators say the measure will force the closure of all but five of the state’s 42 abortion providers.
In a signing ceremony at the state Capitol …
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Jul 18 2013
Paul Song is a radiation oncologist and a member of the faculty at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He is also a visiting fellow with the California Department of Insurance on healthcare policy and on the board of Physicians for a National Health Program, The Courage Campaign, and People for the American Way.
On July 18, 2013 Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Paul about the …
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Jul 18 2013
Che Zifandel is an R&B soul musician from Los Angeles!
We played the song “Candlelight” on today’s show.
If you know of an independent musical act you’d like to see featured on Uprising, send an email to mail@uprisingradio.org.
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Jul 18 2013
Uprising’s Thursday guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent journalist and regular contributor to AlterNet, Truthout and The Guardian, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:
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Jul 18 2013
Activists have been chanting “The People Say Guilty” on the streets of LA since Florida shooter George Zimmerman was acquitted. Community members have been gathering at and near Leimert Park, and other parts of the city, and even briefly shut down the 10 freeway.
Police have shot rubber bullets, accused protesters of causing thousands of dollars of property damage, and arrested more than a dozen people.
One of those who …
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Jul 18 2013
House Republicans put up their 38th and 39th efforts at blocking the Affordable Care Act – President Obama’s signature health care reform law. Two votes in the House yesterday to delay both the employer mandate and the individual mandate passed with overwhelming Republican support and came soon after Obama announced a one year delay in the implementation of the employer …
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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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