Mar 24 2014
In what some are calling Citizens United Part 2, the US Supreme Court will make a landmark ruling on the case McCutcheon v. FEC this week. If the Court rules in favor of McCutcheon, caps on individual donations to federal officeholders will be completely removed, eviscerating the last vestiges of …
Mar 24 2014
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.
Bipasha Shom:
I started this series about undocumented immigrants because my …
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Mar 24 2014
The famous grape boycott of the late 60s highlighted the struggles of migrant farm workers in California. Led by intrepid union organizer and non-violent activist Cesar Chavez, and his colleague Dolores Huerta, migrant workers won a major victory for their rights.
Long hours, brutal conditions, and low pay provided the impetus for the …
Mar 24 2014
“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.” — Cesar Chavez
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Mar 21 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:
Turkey’s government has shut down Twitter, claiming it is a menace to the Turkish Republic. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan sent out one final tweet last night to his more than 4 million Twitter …
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Mar 21 2014
The campaign for fair wages for fast food workers took a new turn recently with workers at McDonalds franchises filing a number of lawsuits in cities around the country over what they are calling “wage theft.”
In California alone, three suits were filed. Workers say they are often underpaid, not paid for overtime, …
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Mar 21 2014
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida are demanding a wage increase of 1 penny per pound of tomatoes picked by farmworkers. The CIW has, over many years, already won agreements with more than major food corporations as part of its Fair Food Program.
But the multi-billion dollars supermarket chain, Publix, has refused …
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Mar 21 2014
In November 2006 Rennie Gibbs, only a child of 15, gave birth to a stillborn baby whom she named Samiya. While hospital records point to the umbilical cord wrapped around Samiya’s neck as the probable cause of death, Mississippi Medical Examiner Steven Hayne concluded, after an autopsy, that the infant’s death was the …
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Mar 21 2014
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” – Carl Sagan …
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Mar 21 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.
Climate scientists are often criticized for not being clear and strong enough in their certainty that climate change is real. Now, the American Association for the Advancement of Science …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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