Jun 20 2014
In a major victory for activists working on behalf of farmers and consumers in India, a Coca Cola bottling plant in Varanasi was ordered shut down this week by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board.
In an area where farmers have trouble finding sufficient water for their crops, the Coca Cola bottling plant in …
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Jun 20 2014
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” — Helen Keller
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Jun 19 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:
Violence rages outside Iraq’s largest oil refinery in the latest battle between Sunni militants and Iraqi forces. The group calling …
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Jun 19 2014
It has been more than 3 years since the devastating nuclear accident at Japan’s Fukushima plant, sparked by a tsunami and earthquake. While Japanese authorities have dismissed claims of health impacts on residents and minimized surrounding contamination, the New York Times this week explained in a report entitled, “Assessing Fukushima Damage Without Eyes on …
Jun 19 2014
While unemployment rates in the US are currently at 6.3%, joblessness among those with prior felonies can be as high as 75%. Many former felons find themselves confined to jobs in construction or plumbing and often are forced to become self-employed.
To address this problem, a campaign called Ban the Box began in 2004 after …
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Jun 19 2014
Famed activist Lawyer Lynne Stewart as freed earlier this year on compassionate release as she battled cancer in prison. The celebrated lawyer who had been incarcerated under post 9-11 “Special Administrative Measures” for sharing her terrorism suspect client’s views with a reporter, was freed after 4 years in prison, where she …
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Jun 19 2014
“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.” — Marcus Garvey …
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Jun 18 2014
We’ll find out why the US Supreme Court recently sided with hedge funds over Argentina in an on-going battle over that nation’s debt. And, a campaign called “Ban-the-Box” attempts to make job searching for former felons a bit easier. Plus, famed activist attorney Lynne Stewart on her life, activism, prison, and battling cancer. …
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Jun 18 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:
Sunni militants attempted to take over Iraq’s largest oil refinery last night leaving dozens of people dead and parts of the plant on fire. The group calling itself the …
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Jun 18 2014
You may not know it, but you would not be alive today without microscopic ocean creatures called phytoplankton. These organisms produce an astonishing 60 percent of all of the Earth’s oxygen, and occupy the crucial bottom rung of our world’s food chain. The survival of almost all life on this planet depends on healthy …
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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