“There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.” — Smedley Butler …

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Uprising’s Monday 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:

Eric Holder wants to reduce mandatory minimum drug sentencing in a major federal policy shift. The US Attorney General will make the announcement today that the federal government will no longer seek minimum …

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President Obama has escalated the US’ unspoken war on the Gulf Arab state of Yemen with 9 drone bombing raids in 10 days killing about 3 dozens Yemenis.

The latest strike on Saturday reportedly killed two “suspected Al Qaeda militants.”

The bombings are apparently in response to an Al Qaeda terrorist threat which both the US and Yemeni governments have …

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A group of young activists are determined to not let George Zimmerman’s acquittal be the last word in the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Calling themselves the Dream Defenders, a number of youth started camping out in front of Florida Governor Rick Scott’s office days after the verdict came down.

Demanding that Governor Scott investigate the Stand Your Ground Laws in …

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights regards the Right to Housing as an essential component of freedom. And, the US has long established itself as being a nation of homeowners.

Yet, for African Americans, the dream of home ownership has been a crucial part of the fight for equal rights. Despite overturning overtly segregationist housing policies, people of color, and …

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation’s criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh prison sentences for certain drug-related crimes, divert people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment and community service programs and expand a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, non-violent offenders. In remarks prepared for delivery Monday to the American Bar Association in San Francisco, Holder said …

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Saudi Arabia, a major supporter of opposition forces in Syria, has increased crackdown on its own dissenters, with 30,000 activists reportedly in jail. In an exclusive interview to RT a Saudi prince defector explained what the monarchy fears most.

“Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests and trials of peaceful dissidents, and responded with force to demonstrations by citizens,” Human Rights Watch begins the country’s profile on its website.

Political parties are banned in Saudi Arabia and …

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A federal judge ruled that the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which has been criticized as racial profiling, violates individuals’ constitutional rights – a significant judicial rebuke for what the mayor and police commissioner have defended as a life-saving, crime-fighting tool.

Instead of ordering an end to the practice, however, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin appointed an independent monitor to oversee changes to the policy.

Peter L. Zimroth, a onetime city lawyer and …

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As the US drone war on Yemen expands, we’ll find out its effects on the ground and what is driving US policy. Plus, a new youth of color group called the Dream Defenders has launched a campaign to push for “Trayvon’s Law.” We’ll find out more about the bill and it’s prospects of being passed. Plus author Laura Gottesdiener joins us to discuss her new book, “A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for …

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Uprising’s Friday guest expert Adele Stan, longtime chronicler of the right wing, and senior Washington correspondent for RHRealityCheck.org, analyzes today’s news headlines:

The US government has ordered the evacuation of its staff from the US Consulate in Pakistan as a rash of attacks have killed dozens of people. The move comes on the heels of a State Department announcement …

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