Mar 20 2014
We’ll cover two on-going campaigns by low-wage fast food workers and farm workers in Florida. And, a Pro-Publica author Nina Martin joins us to discuss how pregnant women are being charged with crimes under the so-called “fetal harm” laws. Plus, our weekly Climate Roundup with Kelly Mitchell. …
Comments Off on Coming Up on March 21, 2014
Mar 20 2014
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:
American tech companies have known about government surveillance programs for years according to an NSA attorney. During a hearing …
Comments Off on Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on Tech Companies and the NSA, Central African Republic, and NY Inmate Death
Mar 20 2014
News media are enthusiastically reporting on the possibility that debris from Malaysia Airlines flight 370 may have been spotted in the Southern Indian ocean, as the search continues, now near the end of its second week.
The puzzle of where the plane and its 239 people on board may have vanished has been …
Comments Off on US-based Malaysia Writer Critiques Media Coverage of Missing Flight 370
Mar 20 2014
A 1963 Supreme Court ruling in the case Gideon Vs. Wainwright resulted in the phrase we know well, either through the movies or through personal experience: “You have to right to an attorney…If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you at no cost to you.”
That means that poor people …
Comments Off on New Doc, Gideon’s Army, Profiles Courage of Public Defenders
Mar 20 2014
While most people believe that our public education system is in need of an overhaul, many are unsure about how to go about it. Now, American children are once again guinea pigs in yet another plan to improve the quality of their education. This year, The Common Core State Standards Initiative was launched …
Mar 20 2014
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” — Edward Everett …
Comments Off on Subversive Thought for March 20, 2014
Mar 19 2014
We’ll critique the media coverage of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. And, film maker Dawn Porter joins us in studio to discuss her acclaimed documentary Gideon’s Army. Plus, education analyst Diane Ravitch will dissect the Common Core public education curriculum. …
Comments Off on Coming Up on March 20, 2014
Mar 19 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Rahul Mahajan, a sociologist and news analyst and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Pro-Russian forces have taken over a Ukrainian naval base in the Crimean Peninsula. The soldiers took over the base without firing a shot, just as Crimeans have formally …
Comments Off on Daily News Flash with Rahul Mahajan on Ukraine Crisis, NSA Oversight, and Toyota Settlement
Mar 19 2014
Tensions between the US and Russia remain high after Crimeans voted to split away from Ukraine and join Russia. Tens of thousands of Russian troops remain in the Crimean peninsula, while Ukrainian forces with the support of the US and EU, are conducting military exercises close by.
Nowhere in the mainstream media’s coverage …
Comments Off on How the National Endowment for Democracy Subverts Democracy
Mar 19 2014
Against the backdrop of the crisis in the Ukraine, talks are taking place in Vienna on the fate of Iran’s nuclear program. The P5+1 countries negotiating with Iran are the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany. Iran had agreed to a 6 month temporary accord in January to reduce uranium enrichment …
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 ……
... more Announcements, Speaker Series
|
