Jan 21 2010
Why Are California’s Baby Products Lined With Carcinogens?
While most Californians count themselves lucky to live in a state that leads the nation in health standards such widespread organic farming practices and strict vehicle emissions standards, why is it that Californians also have the highest concentration of toxic flame retardant chemicals in their bodies than people in any other state? That’s because in 1972, state lawmakers passed …
While most Californians count themselves lucky to live in a state that leads the nation in health standards such widespread organic farming practices and strict vehicle emissions standards, why is it that Californians also have the highest concentration of toxic flame retardant chemicals in their bodies than people in any other state? That’s because in 1972, state lawmakers passed …
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The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the entire world, and also the largest absolute number of imprisoned people in the world. California has the largest prison system in the country, with notoriously overcrowded prisons. Nearly three years ago two inmates from Lancaster State Prison wrote to Uprising to inform us of the danger of losing …
Republican candidate Scott Brown has won the special election in Massachusetts to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley 52% to 47% in a victory that seemed unlikely just weeks ago. The Democrats were hoping to hold onto the seat to preserve a filibuster proof 60-vote super-majority in the Senate. …
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Barely a day had passed after last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti when rightwing media pundits Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson began issuing some disturbing rhetoric. Limbaugh wasted no time in asserting that the earthquake will “play right into Obama’s hands,” and that the President and his administration will “use this to burnish their, shall we say, credibility …
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is about Haiti.
It has been exactly one week since the devastating 7.0 earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Six days after the disaster, survivors reportedly continued to be pulled from under the rubble by international rescue teams. However, Haitian government officials estimate that tens of thousands remain buried under collapsed structures and have put the death toll between 100,000 to …
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, established by President Obama in May 2009, finished its first round of hearings last week. The 10-member, bi-partisan committee is taxed with “examining the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial meltdown.” High ranking members representing all aspects of finance and regulation will be questioned. Among those who testified during the first round are …
