May
09
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 CEOs of two major fast food chains announced this week that they support raising the federal minimum wage. Subway CEO Fred Deluca …
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May
09
2014
I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.”
? Howard Zinn …
May
08
2014
For over two decades, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas kept an enormous secret from those working around him: he was an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines.
In 2011, Vargas decided to out himself in the New York Times Magazine. In his new film Documented, Vargas tells the story …
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May
08
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent Journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Internet giants urge the Federal Communications Commission to give up on proposed rules against net neutrality. Most of the …
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May
08
2014
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ? Henry David Thoreau, Walden …
May
07
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Rahul Mahajan, a sociologist and news analyst and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A brazen attack by militants in a Nigerian border town has resulted in as many as 300 people killed. The massacre took place at a busy market place …
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May
07
2014
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” ? William Faulkner …
May
06
2014
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.” — Mahatma Gandhi …
May
06
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:
The White House’s Climate assessment predicts a grim future for the US and lays the groundwork for adaptation. The National Climate Assessment was last released in 2009. This newly updated report is …
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May
05
2014
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:
The militant Nigerian group Boko Haram has taken credit for the abduction of hundreds of …
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