Apr 14 2014
Daily News Flash with Courtney Morris on Jewish Center Shootings, Afghan Election Fraud, IPCC’s New Climate Economy, and the Passing of Fred Ho
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:
A shooting outside 2 Jewish centers in Kansas City, Missouri has claimed the lives of …
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Just weeks after Crimea’s vote to secede from the Ukraine and join Russia, Ukrainians are preparing for a Presidential election on May 25th. The lead-up to the election is highlighting tensions between Russia and the West. 
A free trade pact signed by the US with Colombia is being criticized for not including human rights protections. Over the past 3 years more than 70 labor union activists have been killed in the country known as the US’s strongest ally in Latin America. 
Tomorrow is April 15th, the dreaded deadline for millions of Americans to send in their tax payments to the IRS. Millions of families will turn to tax preparers to help them fill out their forms and many of them will be of low income.
Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking at Al Sharpton’s group National Action Network, this week, drew attention to his own personal experiences as a young man being profiled by police. Holder was criticized by right wing groups for “playing the race card.”
Seventy five years ago this week, the legendary American author John Steinbeck published the Grapes of Wrath, a magnum opus reflecting the hardships of depression-era migrants who travel from Oklahoma to California to escape the Dust Bowl. The book won Steinbeck a Pulitzer prize, and the National Book Award and was highly cited …
Each week Uprising will analyze the most pressing climate change stories of the past week with our guest Kelly Mitchell, Coal Campaigner for Greenpeace. 
