Jan
25
2016
GUEST: Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and Women’s Studies at Penn State University and a regular guest on Uprising.
Daniel Holtzclaw was once a police office with the Oklahoma City Police Department. During his time he raped and assaulted many women, mostly African American, ranging in age from 17 to 57. Last month he was convicted on 18 out of 36 counts – four of …
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Jan
25
2016
GUEST: Chris Albin Lackey, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch and author of the new report, Rubber Stamp Justice: US Courts, Debt Buying Corporations, and the Poor.
Our legal system is supposed to have checks in place to ensure we all get due process when being sued or charged. But of course often due process is sidelined. And, in the case of debt buying corporations, injustice …
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Jan
25
2016
GUEST: Andrew Hanauer, campaigns director for Jubilee USA.
We’ve heard of the terrible fiscal crisis in Michigan and its impact on residents of Flint and Detroit. But we haven’t heard as much about Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. The residents of Puerto Rico, who are of course US citizens, are struggling with major service cuts as a prolonged debt burden has crippled the local economy.
According to the …
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Jan
22
2016
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, a sociologist and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, and a frequent guest on Uprising.
Satellite pictures are showing that Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery has likely been demolished by the Islamic State group. The monastery, located in Mosul which ISIS captured, was estimated to be 1,400 years old. It is thought to have been destroyed in late 2014.
But …
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Jan
22
2016
GUEST: Kevin Kumashiro, dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, and author of numerous books, including Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture.
President Obama is visiting Detroit for an auto-show this week. But he will be getting more than just an eyeful of car parts. Teachers from the struggling city’s public school system are planning a major protest. Most of …
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Jan
22
2016
GUEST: Jessica Karp Bansal, litigation director at NDLON.
The Supreme Court is hearing a legal challenge to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration this week. Obama’s program, created just over a year ago, allowed for the deferred deportation of undocumented parents of legal residents. The program is called DAPA, or Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. Immigration advocates had criticized the president for …
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Jan
21
2016
GUEST: Zoë Carpenter, The Nation’s assistant Washington editor. She worked previously for Rolling Stone, and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets. She recently wrote Inside the Bundy Brothers’ Armed Occupation.
By now the group of armed white militants led by Ammon Bundy that took over a wildlife refuge in Oregon has become yet one more source of global ridicule of the US. Social media hashtags …
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Jan
21
2016
GUEST: Roberto Gonzales, Assistant Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Education, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America.
President Obama began this year by deporting thousands of mostly Central American undocumented immigrants including children. The deportees, whose asylum requests were denied despite evidence that they were escaping violence in their home countries, are the latest group of immigrants that this country …
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Jan
21
2016
GUEST: Alex Scrivener, policy officer at Global Justice Now.
Following up on yesterday’s coverage of an Oxfam report that the world’s 62 richest people have as much wealth as the poorest half of the entire world’s population, we turn today to the work of one well-known gazillionaire – Bill Gates. Through the philanthropy Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the wealthy Gateses have rebranded themselves as one of …
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Jan
20
2016
GUEST: Nick Galasso, Senior researcher working on economic inequality at Oxfam America.
The anti-poverty group, Oxfam has just released a report on global inequality, citing the staggering statistic that 62 of the world’s richest people now own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population. Oxfam has been tracking the number for several years. In 2010, 388 of the world’s richest people had the …
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