Mar 13 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:
Seven people are dead and 60 injured in an explosion in Harlem, New York. Rescue teams are still …
Mar 13 2014
This June, millions of people will tune in from around the world to watch the FIFA World Cup of soccer in Brazil. Despite the anticipation of world cup fans, the majority of Brazilians are far from pleased. Mass civil unrest and street protests erupted after FIFA – the agency that runs the World …
Mar 13 2014
“The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.” — Stokely Carmichael
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Mar 13 2014
While the phrase “black power” is often associated with the Black Panther Party, credit for popularizing it in the American lexicon actually goes to a civil rights icon named Stokely Carmichael. Representing a new generation in the mid-60s that was more militant than the activism of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, …
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Mar 12 2014
Coming up on the next edition of Uprising… We get a report from the detainee hunger strike at a Washington State immigration holding center. We talk to James Green about the situation in Brazil. And, we discuss Peniel Joseph’s new book about Stokely Carmichael called, Stokely, A Life. …
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Mar 12 2014
“Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.”
? Dalai Lama XIV …
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Mar 12 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:
Canada formally ends its mission in Afghanistan after more than 12 years. Canadian soldiers, serving under the NATO command in Afghanistan, lost more than 150 troops during …
Mar 12 2014
On Monday, dozens of undocumented immigrants gathered on the Mexico side of the US border near San Diego and turned themselves in to authorities. These are people who have lived in the US for years and consider the US their home. They left for various reasons, including being deported, and financial pressures. Most …
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Mar 12 2014
The popular 80s TV show 21 Jump Street fictionalized scenarios of youthful looking police officers conducting undercover stings in high schools. But high school police busts are not fictional. Undercover police officers routinely go into schools posing as students, with the permission of the school districts, and lure kids into breaking the …
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Mar 12 2014
In a direct challenge to the world’s current system of industrial agricultural production, the United Nations special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, submitted a ground-breaking report on how to reform the world’s food production to the UN Human Rights Council this past Monday. The report, which has been six …
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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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