Nov 09 2015
GUEST: Sarah Deer, Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. She is the co-author of three books on tribal law and co-editor of Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence.
There is an epidemic of rape in the United States. That epidemic has its epicenter in Native American communities. One third of all …
Nov 06 2015
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan is a sociology lecturer at the University of Wisconsin and author of ‘Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond’ and a frequent guest on Uprising.
Turkey’s snap elections on Sunday yielded a major victory for incumbent Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, which is its Turkish acronym.
Some weeks ago, Turkey experienced what was …
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Nov 06 2015
GUEST: Russell Berman, Senior Associate Editor at The Atlantic. His article about this issue is entitled, How Bathroom Fears Conquered Transgender Rights in Houston.
Voters in Texas on Tuesday failed to pass the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), called Proposition 1. The measure would have affirmed a Houston city council resolution passed earlier but which was rejected by the Texas State Supreme Court. The …
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Nov 06 2015
GUEST: Deborah Jian Lee, award winning journalist and radio producer, former staff reporter for the Associated Press. She has taught journalism at Columbia University and written for Foreign Policy, Forbes, Slate, and more.
It used to be that the Republican Party could rely pretty heavily on evangelical Christians to vote for them, drawn to the party’s adherence to socially conservative positions. The issues …
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Nov 05 2015
GUEST: Steven Hill, a Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is a political writer and author of five books, including the just published Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers.
San Francisco voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have placed some restrictions …
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Nov 05 2015
GUEST: David Dayen, contributing writer to Salon, weekly columnist at The Fiscal Times, contributor to The Intercept.
Republican Matt Bevin beat Democrat Jack Conway on Tuesday to win the governorship of Kentucky. Bevin has vowed to end the state’s Obamacare programs. A Republican also won in Mississippi – incumbent Gov. Phil Bryant defeated Democrat Robert Gray. In that same state, a constitutional amendment designed …
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Nov 05 2015
GUEST: Andrea Cristina Mercado, campaign director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and co-chair of We Belong Together.
Undocumented women at Hutto Detention Center in Texas are on an indefinite hunger strike, demanding that they be immediately released. A significant portion of the approximately 500 women being held at Hutto, are refusing food. Most of the detainees fled violence from their home countries of …
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Nov 04 2015
GUEST: Anne Keala Kelly, is an award winning, Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation and Indian Country Today, and her broadcast journalism has aired on the Pacifica Network, Al Jazeera, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer. She is currently working on a film about the struggle to protect Mauna Kea called Why The Mountain.
Voting has begun in …
Nov 04 2015
GUEST: Abdel Bari Atwan is a Palestinian journalist and writer and the long-time editor-in chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. He now edits the Rai Al-Youm news website, the Arab world’s first Huffington Post-style outlet. He is a contributor to the Guardian newspaper and Scottish Herald. He interviewed Osama Bin Laden twice in the 1990s. His books include The Secret History …
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Nov 03 2015
GUEST: Dan Barber is the executive chef at a restaurant in Manhattan West Village called Blue Hill, and works with a non-profit called Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. He writes about food and agricultural policy for the New York Times and has won a number of awards including the James Beard award.
California has hundreds of farmers markets all over the state. Whether you live in a big or …
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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