Dec
14
2015
GUEST: Dr. Hugh Sealy, Professor in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at St. George’s University in Grenada. The United Nations Development Programme appointed Dr. Sealy as a consultant and asked that he create a guidance manual that provides climate change negotiators in small island developing states with the information and tools to adequately represent their constituencies during international negotiations.
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Dec
14
2015
GUESTS: Svetlana Gross, an activist from Sweden who traveled to Paris for the COP21 climate talks, Bill McKibben, acclaimed author and environmentalist, the co-founder of 350.org, Samuel Mondlane of Friends of the Earth, Mozambique, and Tania Libanze also from Mozambique with the National Platform for Climate Change, and Dipti Bhatnagar, International climate justice and energy coordinator with Friends of the Earth.
The COP21 summit in Paris was …
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Dec
08
2015
GUEST: Adam Shapiro, long-time activist, who with his wife Huwaida Arraf, and two young children, is in Chios, Greece, aiding refugees, volunteering with a Norwegian group called ‘A Drop In The Ocean’.
Greece has just announced new legislation to set up screening centers for migrants in various parts of the country in order to ease the pressure from the influx of refugees. While the story of the …
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Dec
08
2015
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, sociologist and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, regular guest on Uprising.
President Obama on Sunday evening addressed the nation live from the Oval Office. His speech was prompted by the recent massacre of 14 people in San Bernardino, California. During his speech he touched upon a number of issues, including the US’s strategy against the Islamic State. Obama …
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Dec
08
2015
GUEST: Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator for Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. GGJ is a co-founder of the Climate Justice Alliance.
The UN climate conference in Paris has entered its second week with delegates pushing for a final agreement that can be ratified by all. Developing countries and island nations in particular have the most at stake.
Outside the halls of the meeting, activists are gathering despite a …
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Dec
07
2015
GUEST: Josh Israel, senior investigative reporter for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He recently wrote an article for ThinkProgress called ‘The Gun Industry Has Systematically Demolished Regulators And Avoided The Fate Of Cigarettes’.
The recent horrific massacre in San Bernardino, California, has raised many questions about what motived the killers, a young, newly married couple with a 6-month old child. The FBI is …
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Dec
07
2015
GUEST: Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. His earlier books include
‘Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing For Change’.
The academic field of Sociology is defined as “the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society,” and simply put, “the study of social problems.” Today the US has a rich and burgeoning …
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Dec
04
2015
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Hundreds of people gathered at Pershing Square, in Downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning to demand an end to global warming. The rally was organized by the National Nurses United along with several environmental justice organizations such as Communities for a Better Environment, Food and Water Watch and 350.org. It took place as the United Nations climate summit, COP21, is in full swing …
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Dec
04
2015
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GUEST: Meera Subramanian, award-winning journalist whose work has been published in the New York Times, Nature, and more.
Heavy rainfall in the southern states of India has resulted in massive flooding, particularly in and around Tamil Nadu. The capital city of Chennai saw its wettest day in 100 years this week. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the city to offer emergency relief funding. …
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Dec
03
2015
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GUEST: Ally Boguhn, Political and Campaigns Editor at RH Reality Check. Prior to joining the team, she worked as an associate research director at Media Matters for America where she specialized in analyzing media representations of reproductive rights and health.
After 3 people were killed at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs last weekend, Amy Runyon-Harms, director of ProgressNow Colorado, said, “We call …
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