Aug 15 2014
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass
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Aug 15 2014
One of the nation’s strictest curfew laws targeting children went into effect last Friday in Baltimore Maryland. In a city with a population that is two thirds African American, Baltimore’s Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said that the law will help keep youth in Baltimore safe. The new law will replace a previous curfew law that …
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Aug 15 2014
In July, the nation was shocked to hear of the sky-high rate of holiday weekend violence in Chicago. Dozens of people were killed in just the first two weeks of the month. Even though homicides from shooting incidents are apparently slowly decreasing, Chicago remains the American city most plagued by gun violence.
Now, the …
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Aug 14 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:
The US military did not seek the approval of the White House in sending the latest shipment of arms to …
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Aug 14 2014
The situation in Ferguson, Missouri continues to deteriorate, as residents report they are in what amounts to a “war zone.” Armored tanks and militarized weaponry dominate the police presence during major street protests against the shooting death by police of an 18 year old unarmed black teen named Mike Brown.
Yesterday even members …
Aug 14 2014
The Justice Department in the next few weeks is expected to decide whether or not to force New York Times Pulitzer prize winning journalist James Risen to testify against the source of one of his stories, that was published in Chapter 9 of Risen’s 2006 book State of War: The Secret History of the …
Aug 14 2014
If you Google the words ‘climate change’ this is the kind of dire headline that might pop up: “Climate Change will be catastrophic for mankind after study reveals methane leaking from the Arctic Ocean.”
While you might think that a fear inducing title like this would motivate more people to change their behavior and …
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Aug 14 2014
“…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays …
Aug 13 2014
We’ll go live to Ferguson, Missouri, to speak with the pastor of a local church about the community response following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen, Mike Brown. And, Norman Solomon explains how the greatest danger facing press freedom in the US is legal persecution of journalist James Risen. Plus, as we read one study after another on the reality of climate change, is being eco-literate, enough to inspire real action? …
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Aug 13 2014
In the wake of the Israeli attack on Gaza, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is ramping up. In California, activists are planning actions this week in solidarity with the Palestinian Trade Union Movement at the ports of Long Beach and Oakland. Protesters not only hope to block the Israeli-owned Zim shipping company from unloading its goods, they also hope to gain the support of U.S. longshoremen and dockworkers in their fight for Palestinian human rights.
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with Garrick Ruiz, long-time LA Based activist with BDS-LA for Justice in Palestine, and Taher Herzallah, with American Muslims for Palestine.
Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/1cGVu6oeg5E
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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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