Jun 23 2014
Subversive Thought for June 23, 2014
“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.” — Chief Joseph …
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Archive for June, 2014
Jun 23 2014
Daily News Flash with Courtney Morris on Kerry’s Visit to Iraq, Israeli Strikes on Syria, and California Dockworkers Union Contract
Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, analyzes today’s news headlines:
US Secretary of State John Kerry visits the embattled nation of Iraq, as Sunni militants march toward a major dam. Kerry plans to push Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki to diversify his cabinet, which …
Jun 23 2014
No Place to Hide: Award Winning Journalist Glenn Greenwald Discusses Journalism, Orwell, and Snowden
The US House of Representatives passed a key measure late last week in an attempt to curb some aspects of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance program. The measure passed overwhelmingly, as an amendment to the annual defense appropriations bill, and prohibits warrantless surveillance of Americans’ communications, as well as the implanting of …
Jun 23 2014
What’s Behind African Persecution of LGBT Communities?
The US government last Thursday announced that it has cut aid to Uganda and canceled a military exercise in response to harsh laws outlawing homosexuality. Earlier this year, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that imposed a life sentence for what is called “aggravated homosexuality.” Uganda has also banned lesbianism.
The US’s retaliatory …
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Jun 23 2014
Glenn Greenwald on Uprising
Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald tells the story of whistleblower Edward Snowden in a new book called No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State. Greenwald is also the author of How Would a Patriot Act? and With Liberty and Justice for Some. He is a former constitutional law and civil rights litigator. And, since he began breaking the stories of the NSA’s mass surveillance he has taken on a new role as a founding editor of the new media outlet, The Intercept.
He recently won the 2013 Polk Award for national security reporting. And in April 2014, Greenwald and his colleagues at The Guardian received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Glenn Greenwald was recently in Los Angeles for a book tour event and spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar.
Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/IcnHN6YVU-c
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Jun 20 2014
Coming Up on June 23, 2014
We’ll have an in-depth discussion with prize winning investigative journalist Glenn Greewald about his book, No Place to Hide, and how journalism is at a crossroads today. Plus, we’ll find out about persecution of LGBT communities in various African countries like Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. An intrepid Kenyan activist will join us live in studio to discuss the challenges he faces. …
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Jun 20 2014
Daily News Flash with Maya Rockeymoore on UNHCR Refugee Report, House Passes Bill Curbing NSA, and Wikileaks Exposes Draft Trade Agreement
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 United Nations High Commission on Refugees has announced that there are more than 50 million refugees worldwide – the highest number since World …
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Jun 20 2014
Vijay Prashad Analyzes Iraq’s Ongoing Conflict
The Obama Administration has made clear its desire to see a new government in place in Iraq, quietly agitating for a replacement of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, a man the US itself had helped into power.
As the Sunni group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), continues its march …
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Jun 20 2014
Why It Is Crucial to Examine India’s Rape Epidemic Through the Lens of Caste
Published by Truthdig.com on June 19, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
India, the world’s largest democracy, has a PR problem.
Despite the effort of politicians to present India as a rapidly modernizing state, gruesome incidents of rape keep making news, generating bewilderment among analysts. Take the latest instance of a double rape and killing of two young girls in a tiny rural village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The girls were 12 and 14 …
Jun 20 2014
Supreme Court Decision on Protections of Public Employee Whistleblowers Does Not Go Far Enough
The US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that public employees cannot be retaliated against for blowing the whistle on government corruption.
The decision overturned a lower court ruling and was centered around the case of an Alabama community college professor who testified at a hearing about a state legislator and was later fired by his …
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