Nov
13
2015
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GUEST: Simon Billenness, Executive Director of the US Campaign for Burma.
Myanmar just wrapped up historic elections that were declared free and fair. The party of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy, has won a majority of seats in the lower house and has a commanding lead in the upper house. The Myanmar military, which had long ruled the country, …
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Nov
12
2015
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GUEST: George Monbiot, s a well known environmental and political activist based in the UK, and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper; his book is called “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning.”
Most of you know well the reality and danger of climate change, and that global warming is happening as a direct result of human behavior through the burning of fossil fuels and the …
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Nov
11
2015
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GUEST: Evan Greer, campaign director at Fight For the Future.
US military whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who is serving time in a federal prison for leaking documents exposing the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has been busy. Despite her incarceration she has just written an op-ed in the Guardian newspaper denouncing the secret FISA court system. FISA stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the …
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Nov
11
2015
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GUEST: Ann Jones is an independent scholar, journalist, and photographer, who has reported from Afghanistan for years. She is the author of ten books of nonfiction including, “Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan,” “War is Not Over When It’s Over: Women Speak Out On the Ruins Of War,” and “They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return From America’s War – The …
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Nov
11
2015
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GUEST: Hart Viges is active with the group Sustainable Options for Youth. He is based in Austin, Texas, and is headed to Northern California later this week.
It’s Veteran’s Day today – a day when the US is supposed to remember soldiers who fought in wars, a day to fly flags, march in parades, and of course, shop in special Veteran’s Day sales. …
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Nov
10
2015
GUEST: Cristina Mislan, Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies, Missouri School of Journalism, and a regular guest on Uprising.
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned yesterday amid growing tensions on his campus over black students facing racism. For weeks, students under the banner #ConcernedStudent1950, led a boycott of the campus stores, and recently even launched a hunger strike, calling on Wolfe to resign. At a homecoming …
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Nov
10
2015
GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Executive director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.
Haitians are out en masse protesting their nation’s election results, contending fraud. Thousands gathered on the streets of Port Au Prince for a general strike on Monday. A first round of Presidential elections was held on October 25th, with current President Michel Martelly’s favored candidate Jovenel Moise coming ahead with enough …
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Nov
10
2015
GUEST: Zoe Dolan, is a lawyer based in Los Angeles and New York City. Her practice focuses on criminal defense, with an emphasis on national security and death penalty cases. She currently represents Suleiman Abu Ghayth, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and the allegedly highest ranked al-Qaeda suspect to be tried in a civilian court in the United States.
Zoe Dolan has at least two …
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Nov
09
2015
GUEST: Daphne Wysham, director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy.
After seven years of deliberation, studies, reviews, and activism, the story of the Keystone XL pipeline project seems to have come to a close. President Obama announced on Friday that he was rejecting the TransCanada project.
Just weeks before a make-or-break UN climate conference in Paris, Obama said, “America is now a …
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Nov
09
2015
GUEST: Shaun King, civil rights activist and reporter with the New York Daily News.
When 52-year old Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest in early September, the Chicago area community that he worked in, mourned a man they called a hero. Gliniewicz radioed in before his death, saying he was pursuing 3 armed suspects, two white, and …
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