May 27 2014
Daily News Flash with Courtney Morris on CEO Pay Study, Pope Francis on Clergy Sexual Abuse, and March Against Monsanto
Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, a social change non-profit dedicated to making policy work for people and their environment, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A new study finds that the median annual pay of corporate CEOs has now surpassed the $10 million mark. …
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Thailand’s Army Chief has declared himself in charge, saying that the king had endorsed him, and that he would run a military council overseeing national affairs. The announcement came days after the military declared martial law and took power in the wake of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s ouster by a court. General Prayuth …
A mass shooting in the Santa Barbara County town of Isla Vista on Friday resulted in 7 people dead, including the suspected perpetrator, and 13 injured. Twenty two year old Elliot Rodger, a young man of half-Chinese, half-white descent, is alleged to have stabbed his three male roommates and then …
Everyone knows the “n-word,” but what about the “r-word?” The word redskins is defined in the dictionary as a racial slur. And yet such a derogatory word has remained part of our cultural lexicon, most prominently through the name of a major NFL football team, the Washington Redskins. 
Today is Memorial Day – despite what the retail industry would like us to think, it is not a day for deep shopping discounts. It is a day that the Veterans Affairs Department says “commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service.” 
Uprising is thrilled to announce that our program, which is produced at KPFK in Southern California, has now expanded to our sister station KPFA, based in Berkeley, with a signal area reaching San Francisco, Oakland, and more.
