Mar 17 2014
Pope Francis has just completed his first year of papacy and he’s made more headlines than any other pope in recent memory. He was chosen as Time magazine’s Person of the Year and featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. His eccentricities in driving a used car and doing away with many of …
Mar 17 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 17 2014
Even though awareness of the ill effects of pesticides is greater than ever and more of us these days are inclined toward organic, toxin-free food, none of that matters to Dow Chemical. One of the largest chemical companies in the world, Dow is chomping at the bit for approval of a new herbicide …
Mar 17 2014
Free Speech TV, a national, commercial-free television network with distribution to 40 million households nationwide, has invited Uprising to be part of its regular line up. This is excellent news because it means we can expand the program and its unique content to potentially millions of viewers.
This means that we have to turn Uprising from a radio program in Southern California to a nationally syndicated television program. We want YOU to be part of …
Mar 17 2014
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold …
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Mar 14 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
President Obama has ordered a review of his administration’s deportation policies. After many months of escalating actions by undocumented immigrants and their advocates involving civil disobedience in DC and at the border, and a hunger …
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Mar 14 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry is in London today meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to try to diffuse the on-going internal crisis in the Ukraine and, more importantly, Russia’s occupation of the Crimean peninsula. Crimeans are preparing for a referendum this Sunday on whether to formally become a part of …
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Mar 14 2014
Fifty two year old Swedish journalist Nils Horner has become the latest casualty in the on-going undeclared global war on journalists. Today, the leading cause of workplace related deaths for journalists is murder in the line of work. While the murders of foreign war correspondents like Nils Horner and Daniel …
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Mar 14 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.
Japanese held electronics company Panasonic has decided to pay employees who are required to work in China a pollution stipend to compensate for the hazardous air quality levels in …
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Mar 14 2014
“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.” — Jeff Goodell
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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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