Aug
09
2013
Seventeen days after being taken into custody at the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, the “DREAM9” have been set free.
Three of the nine, in collaboration with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) went to Mexico and joined with 6 others already in Mexico.
What all 9 had in common was that they were young undocumented immigrants who had come …
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Aug
09
2013
In our on-going weekly series, Women of Alexandria House, Uprising producer Bipasha Shom brings you the stories of women who have lived in transitional housing. They all come from different places and have experienced a variety of challenges, but what ties them together is the courage and resilience they find within themselves as they share publicly their stories here on …
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Aug
09
2013
Hundreds of California prison inmates continue their hunger strike, now more than a month after they started. The conditions they are protesting are akin to torture according to international human rights organizations.
Even the United States Supreme Court has pointed out the harshness of this state’s prisons and ordered overcrowding to be eased.
But, Jeffrey Beard, the head of the …
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Aug
09
2013
54 year old inmate Ronnie Dewberry, one of the strike leaders, who has adopted the name Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, wrote to the Guardian newspaper, “From this day until the day I die I shall always be ready to keep fighting/struggling and liberating the mental chains from our people’s minds.” …
Aug
09
2013
Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.
Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.
Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch …
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Aug
09
2013
Summertime, and the chicanery is easy. The Obama administration’s latest rendering of our invisible but eternal “terrorist threat,” I mean.
After a week of ghost stories about an imminent but vaporous plot on the part of an al–Qaeda “affiliate”—this is the big new word—it is hard to decide which is more disheartening: 1. The White House’s blithe if clumsy deployment of factoids, 2. The supine complicity of the media (and this, frankly, is my choice), or …
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Aug
09
2013
The U.S. Department of Justice will review the case of an unarmed 18-year-old Bronx teen who was fatally shot by a police officer to determine if any civil rights laws were violated, federal officials said Thursday.
The review comes after a Bronx grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict the officer, Richard Haste, 31 years old, in the 2012 killing of Ramarley Graham.
Mr. Haste initially was indicted on a charge of manslaughter by a different grand …
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Aug
09
2013
Remember that proposed US Department of Agriculture plan to speed up kill lines at factory-scale poultry slaughterhouses, and cut way back on the number of USDA inspectors to oversee them?
Part of the proposed plan involves allowing the poultry companies to ramp up the antimicrobial sprays they aim at bird carcasses as they zoom along the kill line—a chemical fix to the problem the various pathogens, antibiotic-resistant, commonly found on chicken, including salmonella and campylobacter. …
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Aug
09
2013
Last week, Professor Anthony Ingraffea published a strong op-ed in The New York Times, in which he noted that “unless [natural gas] leaks can be kept below 2 percent, gas lacks any climate advantage over coal.”
Now, a new study confirms those concerns, finding that, on average, 6 to 12 percent of the methane produced is leaking.
Joe Romm at Climate Progress has the details:
A major new study in Geophysical Research Letters by …
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Aug
09
2013
Pacific Investment Management Co., BlackRock Inc. (BLK) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. are seeking a court order blocking Richmond, California, and Mortgage Resolution Partners LLC from seizing mortgages through eminent domain, saying the initiative would hurt savers and retirees.
The city’s plan is unconstitutional, according to complaints filed yesterday by mortgage-bond trustees in federal court in San Francisco. The trustees, Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and Deutsche Bank AG, were directed to take the …
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