Jul 02 2014
Adding a Political and Historical Context to the Rise in Children Migrating from Central America
US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Central American heads of state this week to address the crisis of undocumented children migrating to the US. The number of immigrant children entering the US, hailing primarily from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, is estimated to reach 90,000 this year, and 150,000 next year. In …
Comments Off on Adding a Political and Historical Context to the Rise in Children Migrating from Central America
Israeli authorities have promised a severe response to the kidnapping and murder of three teenage boys whose bodies the government says were found in a shallow grave in the West Bank city of Hebron. The boys had been missing for two weeks during which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the armed Palestinian group of …
Fifty years ago on this day President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill which forever changed the lives of millions of Americans: The Civil Rights Act. The Act was proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 but was actually decades in the making, paved by the struggles of civil rights activists as well …
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 yesterday to limit how unions collect fees from partial public employees. The case in question was around a number of home healthcare workers who are partially paid by Medicaid. Some of the workers in question were mothers who took care of their own disabled children and were paid …
Two major concepts were at play in the Supreme Court’s ruling on Hobby Lobby yesterday: One, that the constitutional right of freedom of religion includes the right to deny women contraceptive coverage, and two that corporations are people, so that religious freedom applies to them. Legally, that worked out to a clash between the …
When the Ottawa Convention was put in place in 1999 to stop the use and production of all land mines, 20,000 people were being killed or maimed by land mines each year. Despite the numbers of victims, many of whom were children, the United States refused to sign on to the treaty. 
