Aug 11 2014
We’ll speak with Mychal Denzel Smith about the recent spate of police killings of Black men in cities around the nation. And, Aaron Glantz joins us to explain why the University of Phoenix’s enrollment of veterans could amount to a predatory practice. Plus activists across California confront an Israel ship at the ports in the latest confrontation over the occupation of Palestine. …
Aug 11 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, an assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A rights group accuses the United States and NATO of violating human rights – in Afghanistan. Amnesty International has just released a new report detailing the impacts of night raids and air strikes …
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Aug 11 2014
Three days after announcing a two pronged operation to attack the militant group ISIS in order to slow its advance across Northern Iraq, President Obama addressed the press on Saturday saying the operations has been successful so far.
As ISIS has marched across Northern Iraq, taking over one town after another, it has overrun …
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Aug 11 2014
A new 72 hour ceasefire has begun in Gaza this morning as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met in neighboring Egypt. This latest truce comes on the heels of several others that have not stuck. At least 7 Palestinians were killed over the weekend.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the press over the weekend …
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Aug 11 2014
The World Health Organization has declared the recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa as a major emergency. So far in what is being characterized as the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history, more than 1,700 people have been infected, and nearly a thousand have died from the disease …
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Aug 11 2014
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie …
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Aug 08 2014
We’ll find out why the US is bombing Iraq again, and what impact the actions could have on an already tense situation. And, what lies in the aftermath of a string of broken ceasefires and bodies in Gaza – we’ll discuss legal and moral implications for the future of the Israeli and Palestinian people. Plus, as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is declared an emergency, we’ll examine the context of poverty, race, and Western …
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Aug 08 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, sitting in for Maya Rockeymoore. Courtney is an assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, analyzes today’s news headlines:
US fighter jets have begun dropping bombs near the Iraqi city of Irbil to stave off the militant group ISIS. President Obama authorized the strikes on Iraq yesterday, justifying them on the basis of …
Aug 07 2014
Published by Truthdig.com on August 07, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
“I can’t breathe” was one of the last things 44-year-old Eric Garner said after being arrested by New York Police Department officers and placed in what appears, in a bystander’s video, to be a chokehold. The asthmatic African-American man was being detained on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes on the sidewalk and died shortly after being taken into custody. With the city medical examiner Read more
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Aug 07 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:
Russia announces retaliatory sanctions against Western states, banning a number of food imports for a year. The Russian government announced this morning as per the New York Times, …
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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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