Nov 14 2013
Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on Climate Change Polls, Obamacare Numbers, & Fast Food Workers’ Campaigns
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:
A new study shows climate denialism is on the decline – among Red state residents no less. Defying conventional wisdom, a new Stanford University study has …
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Activists opposing a far reaching trade plan are cautiously optimistic about a new development that could spell the end of the TPP, or at least slow it down. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secret trade deal being negotiated by the Obama administration directly with various nations. Leaked portions of the TPP have angered many people who fear a …
The United Nations has determined that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has hit a record high. The UN Office of Drug and Crime released a report this week detailing how land used for poppy cultivation jumped 36% from the year before, even as drug eradication efforts fell by 24%. Two provinces which had in earlier years been declared drug-free, were now …
Quick, name three European countries where you can be arrested for wearing the wrong clothes. If you said France, Belgium and the Netherlands you’d be correct. The one garment that could put you in prison is perhaps the most politically charged item of clothing being worn by millions of women today: the burqa. The burqa, a full length head and …
A stark example of the divide between elected representatives and ordinary people is the minimum wage. Currently the federal government guarantees a paltry $7.25 an hour for all work, although many states have pushed that number higher. President Obama earlier this year proposed pushing the federal base wage up to $9 an hour and a new bill aims to push …
One of the most concrete outcomes of the Occupy Wall Street movement was a project called Rolling Jubilee, organized by the OWS-affiliated group Strike Debt. 
It’s Saturday night and your kids want to watch a movie. There’s no way you’ll let them see an R-rated film but what about PG-13? Seems harmless right? But before you decide which film you’d like your children to watch you might want to take a look at a new study released by Ohio State University and the Annenberg Public …
