Jun 09 2014
More than thirty thousand children were detained by US Border Patrol last year. The children, some as young as three years old, were picked up while trying to make the treacherous border crossing into the US with no adult supervision. Many of them had made the trek in the hopes of reuniting with …
Jun 09 2014
Women in the audience – picture this – you’re at a party and find yourself in a conversation with a man who proceeds to dominate the conversation on a topic that you happen to know a lot about. Except that the man who’s talking at you, has made the assumption that he knows …
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Jun 09 2014
An Indian immigrant to the US is currently one of the highest ranking socialists in the US. Kshama Sawant, born and raised in Mumbai, has shaken up not just the Seattle City Council to which she was elected, but the political establishment that has long defended its position to lock wages into poverty …
Jun 09 2014
“I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.” — Nelson Mandela
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Jun 06 2014
We’ll speak with Mother Jones reporter Ian Gordon on the topic of unaccompanied immigrant minors – why there are greater numbers of them today in the US, and what challenges they face. And, author and activist Rebecca Solnit joins us to discuss her new book Men Explain Things to Me. Plus, Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant, of Socialist Alternative and the force behind the Fight for $15 campaign speaks with Alan Minsky at the …
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Jun 06 2014
Published by Truthdig.com on June 5, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
The stoning to death of a pregnant woman named Farzana Iqbal by members of her family in broad daylight in Lahore, Pakistan, last week has prompted protests in that nation by human rights activists. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced an inquiry into the slaying that was apparently spurred by the 25-year-old woman marrying a man of whom her family did not approve. The man himself …
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Jun 06 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 jobs report for the month of May is here and economists – as usual – are cautiously optimistic. A total of 217,000 …
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Jun 06 2014
It was exactly a year ago yesterday that whistleblower Edward Snowden made public the shocking revelations about the NSA’s massive global surveillance operations. Despite a worldwide outcry about the program, politicians have done little to curtail the extensive data gathering network. Now, a small non-profit group called Fight for the Future has taken …
Jun 06 2014
The US Supreme Court has announced that it will not intervene in the case of the New York Times’ James Risen over the reporter’s refusal to reveal one of his sources. Risen, who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize is facing possible prison time even though the ability of …
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Jun 06 2014
Much has been happening in the Middle East in recent days with the elections in Egypt of Army General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and in Syria of Bashar Al Assad. Both countries have been the sites of major democratic uprisings in recent years, part of the once-optimistic Arab Spring movements.
But in Egypt, …
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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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