Apr 07 2014
If you see something, say something,” is a phrase which the Department of Homeland Security has made a sort of paranoid catchphrase of our post-9/11 era. While world outcry over NSA surveillance has led to parliamentary hearings in Germany, American citizens across the nation are still subject to spying by their own police …
Apr 07 2014
April 6th marked the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, an atrocity that claimed the lives of 800,000 Rwandan citizens. After Belgium left Rwanda in 1962, power was handed over to the Hutus, who were bitter from years of Tutsi control. For years leading up to the 1994 genocide, racial divisions between Hutu …
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Apr 06 2014
Are you new to Uprising?
Here’s a short sampler of interviews by host Sonali Kolhatkar, and the kinds of guests we feature and the questions we ask on Uprising.
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Apr 04 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Maya Rockeymoore, President of the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a social change non-profit dedicated to making policy work for people and their environment, analyzes today’s news headlines:
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted yesterday to declassify sections of a secret report on CIA use of torture during the Bush era. The …
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Apr 04 2014
Elections in Afghanistan take place this Saturday, with violence spiking strongly. Just today, two journalists with the Associated Press were shot. One of them, Anja Niedringhaus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer, was killed. The other is Kathy Gannon, author of the book “I is for Infidel,” who is reportedly …
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Apr 04 2014
A disturbing new report released by the Associated Press yesterday has revealed that a Cuban social media site called ZunZuneo was actually a front of the US Government intended to foment political unrest. AP analyzed thousands of pages of documents and interviewed various sources to find that the program was set up through …
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Apr 04 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.
From Reuters, “Authorities in a protest-stricken city in southern China have promised to communicate better with citizens battling plans for a chemical plant, after protesters complained that violence …
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Apr 04 2014
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” ? Terence McKenna …
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Apr 03 2014
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! joins our campaign to help televise Uprising!
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Watch a video message from Amy here:
AMY GOODMAN:
Hi, I’m Amy Goodman host of Democracy Now, asking you to support an important new collaboration between Pacifica Radio’s KPFK in Los Angeles and Free Speech TV, one of the first outlets to carry Democracy Now on television.
Free Speech TV would …
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Apr 03 2014
We’ll go live to Afghanistan, on the verge of elections whose candidates are dominated by warlords, and where the Taliban is attempting disruption by violence. And, we’ll examine the latest US effort to undermine the Cuban government – this time using a social media network. Plus our weekly climate roundup with Kelly Mitchell, and a special message from Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. …
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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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