Mar 07 2014
Coming up on March 10, 2014
We’ll go live to Mexico to speak with an immigrant who, along with hundreds of others, will attempt to cross the border in San Diego as part of the latest action of civil disobedience by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance. And, we’ll hear part 1 of a new weekly series by Bipasha Shom on the undocumented among us. Plus, film maker Patrick Stewart joins us in studio to discuss his new documentary It’s Better to …
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Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris (sitting in for Adele Stan), 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: 
The world’s most notorious drug lord was captured two weeks ago in a carefully planned operation. According to news reports, Mexico’s Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was captured by Mexican Marines in his resort home in Mazatlan, in the state of Sinaloa. 
In honor of International Women’s Day which is tomorrow, we turn to an internationally acclaimed political activist from India. Medha Patkar is best known for founding the Narmada Bachao Andolan organization against major dam projects in India such as the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River which threatened to displace millions of people. In the tradition …
While much has been known about human and animal physiology for centuries, the study of plants, or botany, is actually a relatively new field. Plants and trees are a mystery to us. They don’t really move except in the wind, they don’t have mouths to eat and we don’t actually see them …
A test vote in the Senate to confirm President Obama’s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, failed yesterday by a vote of 47 to 52. Seven Democrats joined Republicans to vote against Debo Adegbile, a senior counsel with the Senate Judiciary Committee, who had previously worked for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund. …
