President Obama’s announcement over the weekend that he was delaying taking executive action on immigration, sent shock waves through immigrant rights groups. The President revealed his decision in the middle of an NBC interview on Meet the Press, leaving a lot of people scratching their heads.

Maegan Ortiz is an independent journalist and organizer based in Los Angeles. She spoke recently with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about Obama’s decision.

Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/P0X7TxklPy8M

We’ll speak with Michael Muhammad Knight on his Washington Post article, “I understand why Westerners are joining jihadi movements like ISIS. I was almost one of them.” And, award winning author Andrew Solomon joins us to discuss his best selling book Far From the Tree, as part of our on-going series on the Politics of Parenting. Plus, a new documentary by John Wellington Ennis called Pay2Play explores the fight for campaign finance reform. …

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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:

Iraq has picked a new government under the leadership of Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi. As Iraq’s new cabinet was being approved, US President Obama had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister …

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A federal judge has accused the giant oil company BP of recklessness in its role in the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil spill. The spill, which was the worst such disaster in the entire Gulf of Mexico’s history, happened 4 years ago, killing 11 workers and flooding the area with crude oil. BP has …

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President Obama’s announcement over the weekend that he was delaying taking executive action on immigration, sent shock waves through immigrant rights groups. The President revealed his decision in the middle of an NBC interview on Meet the Press, leaving a lot of people scratching their heads. Obama had promised on June 30th to take …

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Citizens of the web… prepare yourself for the great “Internet Slowdown.” Only five days before the end of the FCC’s public commentary period on net neutrality, a group called Fight for the Future has organized an online campaign on September 10th to help users visualize the bleak future of a fee-based, two-tiered web.

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“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ? Leonardo da Vinci …

We’ll examine the impact of one of the most significant legal rulings on corporate malfeasance in US history – a recent federal judge’s decision that found BP grossly negligent in its role in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. And, we’ll find out just how furious immigrant rights groups are at President Obama’s decision to delay executive action on immigration. Plus, the Great Internet Slowdown promises another battle in the fight for Net Neutrality. …

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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:

US bombs began dropping around Iraq’s Haditha Dam in another front in the war against ISIS. The Haditha Dam, dangerously close to being taken over by Islamic State fighters, is a key component …

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Details are slowly emerging of the terms of a ceasefire signed on Friday between Ukraine and Russia over a conflict that had killed over 2,500 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. A twelve point road map for peace requires Ukraine to pass a law that confers special status on the pro-Russian dominated regions …

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