Jun 03 2014
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of California’s “Top-Two” Primary Election System
Californians, Iowans, and Mississippians, are going to the polls today to vote in a number of Congressional and gubernatorial primary elections. Here in California, a top-two system ensures that only the top two vote getters, regardless of party affiliation, will make it to November’s general election. Democratic incumbent Jerry Brown leads with a …
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Republicans often accuse President Obama of waging a “class war.” Progressives often wish that were so. While many of us acknowledge class as a crucial factor in political analysis, we don’t place nearly enough emphasis on it in our political organizing. 
The great revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama died at the age of 93 on Sunday June 1st 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:
Although analysts are predicting record low voter turnout for tomorrow’s California statewide elections, two significant propositions: 41 and 42 will be on the ballot. 
Existing legislation to make it harder for people with mental illness to be able to purchase guns is being closely considered by California lawmakers. The massacre over a week ago of 6 people by a 22-year old man in Isla Vista has spurred a bill that has been likened to obtaining a restraining …
The killing of a pregnant woman named Farzana Iqbal by members of her family in broad daylight in Lahore, Pakistan, has prompted protests in that nation by human rights activists. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced an inquiry into the murder that was apparently prompted by the 25 year old woman in question …
