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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:

US forces conduct weekend raids in Somalia and Libya, targeting Al Qaeda affiliated networks. Two separate attacks on Saturday by US military forces surprised the international community. In an apparent response to the Nairobi …

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Thousands of LA county workers walked off their jobs last Tuesday after their contract with the county expired at midnight and marched through downtown LA.

The workers want raises as well as a reduction in the number of caseloads for those County workers who are employed as social workers. They also want to close loopholes enabling corporations to avoid paying taxes since those taxes fund cash-strapped County services.

LA County employs 100,000 workers of which SEIU represents approximately 55,000. Half of those earn $40,000 a year or less and have not received a cost-of-living increase in five years.

Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with Lowell Goodman, Communications Director of SEIU Local 721 about the contract negotiations.

Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/XFpvwP81ipU

Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.

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The standoff between Republicans and Democrats over funding the government has entered its 6th day with still no end in sight. Republicans, seeming to have given up on defunding or delaying the Affordable Care Act, are now attempting to find a face-saving way out and are moving on to the debt ceiling battle. On a Sunday morning talk show, Speaker …

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Thousands of LA county workers walked off their jobs last Tuesday after their contract with the county expired at midnight and marched through downtown LA.

The workers want raises as well as a reduction in the number of caseloads for those County workers who are employed as social workers. They also want to close loopholes enabling corporations to avoid paying taxes …

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There was a time when Halloween costumes were supposed to resemble the thing you were actually attempting to imitate. But these days, if you’re a woman, you’re expected to don a lacy, cleavage-revealing bodice and a short skirt with only the most minimal accessories to invoke an actual costume. What’s worse is that costumes for little girls as young as …

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We’ll get an update the latest Congressional battles over Obamacare, the government shutdown, and the coming debt ceiling fight. And, thousands of LA County workers are up in arms over contract negotiations – we’ll speak with a union rep. Plus, acclaimed writer Jean Kilbourne joins us to critique the disturbing sexualization of girls’ Halloween costumes. …

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

A 34 year old black mother suffering from post-partum depression is killed by Capitol police after ramming into the White House barrier and fleeing. Miriam Carey, a dental hygienist from Stamford, Connecticut, was identified late yesterday after the incident. …

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Mexico’s drug war has had a death toll of 60,000 in just 6 years. What is most disturbing about the violence are the links between drug cartels, the police forces, and the very highest echelons of the government.

In a 2010 book that distilled 5 years of painstaking and life-risking reporting, award winning journalist Anabel Hernández revealed the sordid details …

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Adding to the ever growing research exposing the blatant inequities in our criminal justice system is a new report by the Death Penalty Information Center which shows that the majority of all executions in the United States occur in very small geographic regions.

The report found that of the over 3,000 counties in the US only 2 percent have been …

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“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” — Nelson Mandela
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