Jan
13
2014
Each week Uprising will analyze the most pressing climate change stories of the past week with our guest Kelly Mitchell, Coal Campaigner for Greenpeace.
Although the European Union had vowed to take the lead on combating climate change, it seems that Europe’s dismal economy has put a damper on those efforts. EU Commissioners on Friday reduced their previously stated goals for …
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Jan
13
2014
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy
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Jan
10
2014
We’ll commemorate the legacy of the late great Amiri Baraka. We’ll hear him in his own voice, preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives, and turn to poet Nikki Giovanni on his influence in poetry and politics. Plus, part 1 of a 2 part conversation with Dr. Eric Walsh, Public Health Director at the City of Pasadena on the urban food justice movement and how it’s linked to racial and economic justice, as well as climate …
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Jan
10
2014
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 major chemical spill in West Virginia has left hundreds of thousands of residents without water. A company named Freedom Industries in Charleston was responsible for the spill from a leaking storage unit, into the Elk river, upstream from a major …
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Jan
10
2014
Remember the lovely folks who brought you anti-gay Proposition 8? Well they’re back and now that they’ve failed to stop gay marriage, some of them have set their sights on a law that would help transgender youth. California’s AB1266 or The School Success and Opportunity Act was signed into law last year by Governor Jerry Brown to reduce the traumatic bullying …
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Jan
10
2014
Fifty years ago this week President Lyndon B. Johnson, during his State of the Union address, launched the so-called War on Poverty, pushing for legislation to lower the whopping 19% poverty rate at the time. Months later, that legislation was passed and signed, and became known as the Poverty bill. It established the Office of Economic Opportunity and emphasized health care …
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Jan
10
2014
A new state regulation that took effect with little fan fare in the New Year may have a profound impact on long term public health. After many years of campaigning, furniture sold in California will no longer be required to be treated with flame retardant chemicals.
The chemicals injected into our sofas, children’s car seats, and even kids’ pajamas, are part …
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Jan
10
2014
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.” — Albert Einstein
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Jan
10
2014
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 his …
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Jan
10
2014
Published by Truthdig.com on January 10, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
Twenty years ago, on Jan. 1, 1994, a trade deal championed by Democratic President Bill Clinton went into effect. The North American Free Trade Agreement was meant to integrate the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico by breaking down trade barriers among them, creating jobs and closing the wage gap between the U.S. and Mexico.
What in fact happened under NAFTA was that heavily …
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