Dec 10 2007
GUEST: George Monbiot, columnist for the Guardian newspaper and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
About ten thousand delegates from more than 180 nations are meeting in Bali to attempt to extend the Kyoto Protocol Global Warming Pact beyond 2012. Opposition from the United States, Canada, and Japan is …
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Dec 05 2007
GUEST: Muhammed Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of
Southern California
In what appears to be a blow to the Bush Administration’s plans for war and sanctions on Iran, a US intelligence report has asserted that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago. The National Intelligence Estimate represents the consensus of all 16 …
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Sep 13 2007
GUEST: Chip Smith, anti-racist activist and author of “The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism”
“The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism,” is a new book from anti-racist activist Chip Smith. By examining the genesis of white supremacy in the United States, Smith analyses how …
Sep 12 2007
GUEST: Sylvia Mendez, daughter of Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, integrated a former “White School” in Orange County as a young girl
In the fall of 1944, Gonzalo Mendez and his sister Sally Vidaurri attempted to enroll their Latino children in Westminster Elementary School in Orange County. Gonzalo Mendez, who himself had attended Westminster as a young child, …
Aug 30 2007
GUESTS: Sara K Gould, President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Almetra Franklin, CEO of St. Mary’s Community Action Agency, Louisiana Housing Alliance
When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast, the devastation left in its wake ignited discussions on race and even class in the United States. However, even as women were disproportionately affected by …
Aug 29 2007
GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, author of “Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop” and Professor of Theology, English, and African American Studies at Georgetown University
The topic of hip hop as a means of social and political expression is something we have covered often on Uprising. Ever since it’s inception in the 1970s in New York’s West Bronx, Hip …
Aug 22 2007
GUEST: Dr. Marcy Newman, Co-founder of the Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign and a Professor of English at Boise State University
This week marks three months since fighting began, fueled by U.S.-made weapons, at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Northern Lebanon. Lebanon houses the largest number of Palestinian refugees as they make up over 10 …
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Aug 22 2007
GUEST:Rick Perlstein, Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future
Efforts to find six coal miners in Utah were suspended indefinitely as officials cautioned that underground rescue efforts had become too dangerous. Three rescue workers were killed last Thursday when a tunnel they were digging caved in. Bob Murray, co-owner of the Crandall Canyon Mine, told relatives …
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Aug 20 2007
GUEST:Eva Golinger, author of The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela
Last Wednesday, President Hugo Chavez outlined numerous proposals to reform the constitution of Venezuela. Though Chavez announced his hope for widespread changes in the economy, political structure, and federation of Venezuela, one reform in particular gained the most attention in the media. President Chavez proposed …
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Aug 17 2007
GUEST: David Barsamian, founder and director of Alternative Radio, heard on KPFK on Fridays at 3 pm, his latest book is Targeting Iran with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian, Nahid Mozaffari
Earlier this week, a Bush administration official said the U.S. planned to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group. The Revolutionary Guard is estimated at between …
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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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