Jun 26 2014
Coming up on June 27, 2014
Friday morning on Uprising, we’ll find out what’s behind the Supreme Court’s decision to void the 35 foot buffer zone of protest around abortion clinics, and the possible impact the ruling could have. And, acclaimed Academy award nominated actor Don Cheadle joins us to discuss his new project, Miles Ahead, about the life of jazz legend, Miles Davis. Plus, rare recordings from 50 years ago, deep within the Pacifica Radio Archives about the Mississippi Freedom …
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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:
The Supreme Court in a major ruling yesterday, unanimously decided that law enforcement authorities needed warrants before searching the cell phones of people arrested. Until now, police did not need to obtain warrants to examine phones. 
A new study out of UC Davis is adding to mounting evidence linking pesticide exposure among pregnant women to higher rates of autism. Researchers studied 970 children living around farming areas in Northern California and found that pregnant women who lived less than one mile from a farm using pesticides had a 60 percent …
A year and a half ago, a young innovator who was one of the most promising activists on open technology and internet freedom, and a brilliant programmer, Aaron Swartz, was found dead in his apartment. He was only 27 years old. 
Brian Knappenberger has made a new documentary about Aaron Swartz and the ideas that motivated him called The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with him on June 26, 2014
The White House, in conjunction with the Center for American Progress, held the first ever Working Families Summit on Monday in Washington DC. 
