Mar 31 2014
Coming up on Uprising April 1, 2014
We’ll examine a new report that reveals how the city of Los Angeles is paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to Wall Street firms – more than it spends on basic services like repairing streets. And, a new play called Placas chronicles the life of a young Salvadoran immigrant and his struggle against gang life – based on the real life story of Alex Sanchez. Culture Clash’s Ric Salinas who stars in the …
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Miriam Pawel is the author of The Union of Their Dreams, widely acclaimed as the most nuanced history of Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers movement. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning editor and reporter who spent 25 years at Newsday and the LA Times. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to work on her new book, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, which has just been published in time for Cesar Chavez Day. 
Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University and a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Today is Cesar Chavez day – the day the great union organizer from California would have turned 87. In 1965, the seasoned organizer took on the fight of his life as he led thousands of poor migrant farmworkers who toiled in the grape fields of Delano to a years long strike and boycott …
These days little surprises us every time we hear of a new way in which the National Security Agency has been spying on us. But while anger at government surveillance unites much of the left and right, we often don’t stop and think about corporate surveillance. 
Today we launch a new four week series – part of our Real People, Real Voices series, focusing this time on undocumented youth. Uprising producer Bipasha Shom interviewed a number of young people without papers and asked them to tell her their stories. 
The world was rocked by shocking news in Egypt this week where 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced to death in a mass trial. The trial took place over two very brief sessions with hundreds of defendants locked up in cages in the courtroom. There were no witnesses …
