Apr 21 2014
Chris Hedges Endorses Campaign to Televise Uprising!
Veteran foreign correspondent, Pulitzer prize winning best-selling author Chris Hedges endorsed our campaign to televise Uprising. Join our campaign at www.indiegogo.com/projects/uprisingtv
Hi, I’m Chris Hedges author, with Joe Sacca, of Days of Destruction Days of Revolt. I would like to add my voice to the calls of support for KPFK’s effort to televise its morning program Uprising. I’m a huge fan of Uprising. It is one of the few shows to give a voice to those of us outside the mainstream, those of us who decry the ineffectiveness of our traditional liberal elites, including the Democratic Party and who fear the onslaught, both politically and environmentally of a global corporate totalitarianism, one that now operates the most pervasive security and surveillance apparatus in human history. Free Speech TV will, if you assist us, televise Uprising. This will allow my voice and the voices of others like me to reach perhaps millions more viewers. Thank you very much.
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Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, 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:
US government officials attended a ceremony in Da Nang, Vietnam this weekend along with Vietnamese officials to mark the next stage in a process to clean up the toxic legacy of Agent Orange. Agent Orange was a major weapon of chemical warfare used by the US during the Vietnam war. 
This is a special birthday broadcast of Blase Bonpane on his life and work. If you want to wish him a happy birthday, please post a comment below. We’ll make sure Blase gets the message. 
The book Unsafe at Any Speed made Ralph Nader a household name in 1965 when it was first published. Nader became known as the nation’s leading consumer advocate. His fight for auto safety regulations pushed car manufacturers to include basic safety features like seat belts, and eventually led to the creation of a …
More than 4,000 workers lose their lives and even more are injured each year while on the job according to the government agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA. Of those that died in 2012, nearly 20% of the fatalities were in the construction industry where the leading cause of death was …
The state of Vermont could become the first in the nation to approve the labeling of genetically modified foods. The Vermont Senate passed a law 28 to 2 this week, requiring food production companies to identify if their products contain GMOs by the year 2016. The bill now heads to the Vermont State …
