Sep 23 2013
Daily News Flash with Rose Aguilar on Kenya Mall Attack, Obama and the Navyyard Shooting, and Angela Merkel’s Reelection
Uprising’s 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:
Armed gunmen lay siege to a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya this weekend, killing at least 62 people. Militants affiliated with Somalia’s Al Shabaab group had held unknown numbers of people hostage since Saturday. So …
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The United Nation’s General Assembly meets this week at its headquarters in New York city, providing President Barack Obama with a number of diplomatic opportunities. 
In a case sharing many similarities with the Trayvon Martin shooting, we turn now to the trial of Michael Dunn for the murder of teenager Jordan Davis. The 17 year old African American boy was gunned down last year while he sat in a car listening to music with his friends in Jacksonville, Florida. 
Pope Francis made headlines once more in an interview he gave last week that was published in 16 Jesuit Journals internationally, where he appeared to revise the Catholic church’s strong approach on controversial issues like abortion, contraception, and gay marriage. 
The third female police officer in Afghanistan this summer has been killed by militants. Lieutenant Nigara, the highest ranking female police officer, was shot in the neck this week in Helmand province and died shortly after. Her murder comes just weeks after the killing of Afghan Indian activist and writer Sushmita Banerjee. High profile Afghan women are particularly vulnerable in …
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro has condemned what he is calling a ban on Venezuelan aircraft through US airspace, and the denial of a visa to a top Venezuelan official to attend a UN meeting. Bolivian President Evo Morales, a strong ally of Venezuela, has reacted saying he will file a lawsuit against President Obama for “crimes against humanity.” 
As part of our on-going series on Parenting and Child Development, we turn to an issue which has become the focus of heated debate among new parents, particularly mothers – it is the debate over breastfeeding. Currently that debate is relegated to whether women have the right to do so in public rather than whether breastfeeding is the best thing …
