Sep 12 2013
We’ll examine immigration legislation, from the stalled federal bill, to two state bills awaiting Governor Jerry Brown’s signature. And, part 2 of my conversation with acclaimed Bangladeshi Labor rights activist, Kalpona Akter. Plus, a new documentary, Informant, tells the controversial story of FBI informant Brandon Darby. …
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Sep 12 2013
Kalpona Akter is the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity. She currently has several criminal charges filed against her for her labor activism.
During her time in Los Angeles for the 2013 AFL-CIO convention, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed her about working conditions in Bangladesh’s garment factories.
Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/oowLk5FUav8
Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.
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Sep 12 2013
Uprising’s guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent Journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Russian and US representatives are meeting in Geneva to discuss how to oversee Syria’s chemical weapons. A two-day meeting between US Secretary of State John …
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Sep 12 2013
As we come up on the two year anniversary of the start of the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the five year anniversary of the financial melt down, we find that little has changed for 99% of Americans who still face a shaky financial future. Now, a shocking new report by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty confirm that actually …
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Sep 12 2013
Following collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, labor activist Kalpona Akter speaks out for new way forward
By Sonali Kolhatkar
Published in Commondreams.org.
The soft-spoken, 5 foot tall, brown-skinned woman I met this week did not in any way appear to be a dangerous criminal. Yet, Kalpona Akter, the now-famous Bangladeshi labor activist, spent a month in prison last year, facing criminal charges brought by a subcontractor for Walmart. While serving her sentence, she was interrogated for hours on end, while her colleagues were beaten. Her crime: organizing garment workers.
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Sep 12 2013
The “Made in Bangladesh” tag on your $10 T-shirt is a sign not just of the global nature of the retail industry, but of the source of cheap labor that drives multinational companies to pay a handful of cents per garment to the young, impoverished female sweatshop worker who likely made your shirt.
The terrible working conditions of Bangladesh’s workers …
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Sep 12 2013
How much is too much? That’s the basic question film maker Ed Brown asks in his new documentary about the pervasiveness of chemical pollution in our environment and in our bodies. Government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulate how much corporations can pollute, and they do so by determining acceptable levels …
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Sep 12 2013
“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.” — Barry Commoner …
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Sep 11 2013
Uprising’s guest expert Rahul Mahajan, sociologist and news analyst and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A major explosion rocks Benghazi, Libya exactly a year after US Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed. Twelve years after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, and one year after an attack on …
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Sep 11 2013
President Obama last night addressed the nation to make his case publicly for military action on Syria. Invoking details of a scenario in which Syrian forces gassed over a thousand Syrians to death and claiming that such a scenario was backed up by evidence of the regime evaluating the attack afterward, the President made the case that the US had …
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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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