Jun 13 2014
Acclaimed actress, poet, writer and activist Ruby Dee died yesterday at the age of 91. While her best known role was in the 1961 film, Raisin in the Sun, she was also a powerful civil rights activist, working alongside her husband Ossie Davis. Dee was actively involved in the Congress of Racial Equality …
Jun 13 2014
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge this week struck down California’s teacher tenure and job security laws calling them unconstitutional. The landmark ruling could potentially affect the State’s 6 million public school students and over 300,000 teachers, as well as have a ripple effect throughout the nation.
The lawsuit, Vergara v. California was funded by …
Jun 13 2014
Peter Hecht is an award winning journalist who writes for the Sacramento Bee and McClatchy newspapers. He has written a new book meticulously documenting California’s battle to legalize marijuana called Weedland: Inside America’s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit. On June 12, 2014, he spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about his book.
Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/a_gmPbA8i1I
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Jun 12 2014
We’ll examine the unfolding situation in Iraq as a militant group has captured several cities, promising a Sunni caliphate across Iraq and Syria. And, we’ll try to sort fact from fiction in the bizarre story of the mass children’s grave that came to light in Ireland and the Catholic Church’s role. Plus, what the recent legal ruling against teacher tenure in California means. …
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Jun 12 2014
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” — Albert Einstein …
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Jun 12 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:
Iraqi militants have taken over the northern city of Tikrit, just a day after claiming Mosul, while Kurdish rebels have …
Jun 12 2014
The inauguration of Egypt’s new President, former Army Chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, was marked by the sexual assault of eight women in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Video footage has emerged of one of them – a 19 year old student, naked and bloodied, being rescued by Egyptian police from a mob of men. Egypt’s …
Jun 12 2014
While the US Government is gradually reducing the number of inmates held at its notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, it is quietly maintaining an extensive shadow prison system here on US soil to detain tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants in deplorable conditions.
A new report by the ACLU which has been …
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Jun 12 2014
The California city of San Jose just passed a resolution severely restricting the locations of medical marijuana dispensaries. The 7-3 decision will affect nearly all of San Jose’s roughly 80 pot shops, requiring them to move into only a handful of “industrial” areas. The shop owners are up in arms, saying the resolution amounts …
Jun 11 2014
A Congolese warlord from the group M23, is facing numerous charges at the International Criminal Court. It is the longest list of charges anyone has faced at the ICC, and includes among other things, murder, rape, sexual slavery, pillaging and conscripting child soldiers. The warlord, nicknamed “The Terminator.” The ICC has long been criticized for targeting African leaders disproportionately. Still, crimes in …
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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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