Sep 03 2014
Political Prisoner and award winning journalist Mumia Abu Jamal filed this commentary about Labor Day.
Visit www.prisonradio.org to listen to all of Abu Jamal’s commentaries. …
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Sep 02 2014
We’ll speak with a fast food worker who is part of the national Fight for 15 campaign – we’ll discuss how and why workers are walking off their jobs this Thursday in the latest challenge to corporate suppression of wages. And, we’ll hear part 2 of a conversation with journalist Todd Miller about his new book Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Homeland Security. …
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Sep 02 2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
The US and Turkey are working closely to target and kill Kurdish separatists, a new exposé reveals. The Intercept, in collaboration with the German paper Der Spiegel, published revelations on Sunday that the …
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Sep 02 2014
These days it seems as though every sunrise brings grim news in the Middle East and North Africa, from Gaza to the West Bank, from Syria to Iraq, from Libya to Egypt.
Over the past three days, in Syria, Bashar Al Assad’s forces battled rebels in the Golan Heights. The Al Nusra Front in …
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Sep 02 2014
The US Border Patrol is facing a $40 million lawsuit that was brought last week over the fatal shooting of an unarmed Mexican man two years ago along the Rio Grande riverbank. Although Border Patrol had claimed that Guillermo Arévalo Pedraza was part of a group of rock-throwers who posed a serious threat to …
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Sep 02 2014
The 2014 Burning Man festival wrapped up yesterday, ending an 8-day annual gathering of 66,000 people in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, including right wing anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, former progressive Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman. Launched in 1986 in San Francisco, Burning Man now boasts a year-round set …
Sep 02 2014
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.” — Edmund Burke …
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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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