May 15 2014
“Those who thrive within the structure of large corporations tend to be adept at pleasing rather than subverting institutional power. It follows then that those who succeed in corporate journalism are suited to accommodate power. They identify with institutional authority and are skilled at serving, not combating it.” — Glenn Greenwald …
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May 14 2014
The Uprising TV Launch party is on Tuesday June 10th at 7 pm at Cafe Club Fais Do Do,5257 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016, featuring Grammy award winning band Quetzal.
If you pledged for tickets to the Uprising TV Launch Party during our Indiegogo campaign, your name will be on the guest list!
All those on the guest list will get a signed limited edition poster of the campaign, PLUS be entered into a …
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May 14 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Maya Rockeymoore, sitting in for Rahul Mahajan. Maya is 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:
A Human Rights Watch report has found that hundreds of child laborers in US tobacco fields …
May 14 2014
A new analysis by the Wall Street Journal has revealed that CEOs of big banks, earn a median income annually of $57 million. Big banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan Chase pay their executives ever-ridiculous salaries and stock options. But these salaries do not in fact depend upon CEO performance …
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May 14 2014
“Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well off.” — Thomas Piketty …
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May 13 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A new study has found that an ice sheet in the Antarctic is melting and that the process is unstoppable. The study, conducted at the University of California in Irvine, in collaboration …
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May 13 2014
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali …
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May 12 2014
“Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just “human rights,” and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that needs to replaced.” — Arundhati Roy …
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May 12 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Voters in a number of Ukrainian cities claimed autonomy from Ukraine in a series of chaotic elections held yesterday. A number of cities in Ukraine, including Donetsk, Luhansk, and Slovyansk, turned out …
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May 09 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry during his recent tour of Africa, stopped at the Democratic Republic of the Congo to deliver a message to two-term president Joseph Kabila. Kerry wants to offer Congo $30 million in aid but on the condition that Kabila will not seek a third term.
The DRC has …
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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