Oct
09
2015
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GUEST: Judge Pamela Alexander, District Court Judge, Fourth Judicial District, Minnesota. Decades ago she attempted to point out that the different sentencing guidelines for powder cocaine and crack cocaine resulted in blacks serving longer sentences than whites.
*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 25, 2015.
Women are increasingly criminalized in our system of mass incarceration. In fact, while the vast majority …
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Oct
09
2015
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GUEST: Jack Cole is retired state police lieutenant with the New Jersey state police. He is also the founding member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).
*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 25, 2015.
The first point of interaction that ordinary Americans have that lead them into the prison system is with law enforcement. Police have been trained to behave as …
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Oct
08
2015
Published by Telesurtv.net on October 07, 2015
The U.S. has "accidentally" bombed weddings and civilian convoys, and then dismissed human casualties as "collateral damage.”
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Oct
08
2015
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GUEST: Peter Bibring, Director of Police Practices for the ACLU of Southern California.
Police in California are up in arms over a new bill that Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law, intended to track and identify racial profiling. AB 953, which was introduced by San Diego Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, will require police departments to collect the race and ethnicity of every …
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Oct
08
2015
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GUEST: Bill Waren, trade policy analyst for Friends of the Earth.
The Obama Administration is enjoying a major victory with the announcement of a new trade deal with 12 nations, known as the TransPacific Partnership (TPP). Aimed at bolstering US economic dominance in the face of China’s spectacular growth, the TPP faced huge opposition from progressive groups who have cast the deal …
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Oct
08
2015
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GUEST: Wen Stephenson, independent journalist and climate justice activist, contributing writer at the Nation Magazine and former editor at the Atlantic. His new book is called What We are Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Justice.
The United States is among the leading producers of carbon per capita in the world. It has pioneered energy …
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Oct
07
2015
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GUEST: Santosh Giri practiced Constitution Law and Human Rights in Nepal from 1995 through 2005 and came to US to obtain a Masters in Law from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is also the West Coast coordinator for Bibeksheel, a new political party in Nepal.
*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 24, 2015.
After nearly a decade of political …
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Oct
07
2015
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GUEST: Eric Avila is a professor of history, Chicano Studies, and urban planning at UCLA. He wrote the book Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. His latest book is called The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City.
*This segment was originally featured on Uprising on July 8, …
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Oct
07
2015
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GUEST: Cecelia Tichi, author of Jack London, A Writer’s Fight for a Better America, and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and professor of American Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her earlier books is Civic Passions, Exposes, and Excess, and Embodiment of a Nation.
*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 24, 2015.
When I was a child, one of my …
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Oct
06
2015
Uprising’s guest expert Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Clemson University, analyzes to day’s news headlines:
NATO’s Secretary General has confirmed this morning that Russian ground troops have entered Syria. Mr. Jens Stoltenberg also announced that, “Russian combat aircraft have violated Turkish airspace,” and added, “This is unacceptable.” Turkey is a member of NATO. Stoltenberg also cited that the “substantial buildup of Russian forces …
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