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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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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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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.

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder insisted on Friday that the water crisis in Flint that poisoned the African American dominated city, had nothing to do with race. Mumia Abu Jamal, a political prisoner and an award-winning journalist filed this commentary about the crisis.

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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.

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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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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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Published by Telesurtv.net on January 22, 2016

As Senator Bernie Sanders continues to surge ahead of Hillary Clinton in the polls, establishment liberals are attacking the self-described democratic socialist candidate en masse.| Photo: AFP

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Published by Truthdig.com on January 21, 2016

A new documentary airing soon on PBS covers a grisly era of California history—the forced sterilization of untold numbers of poor, mostly Latino, Spanish-speaking women in the 1960s and 70s in Los Angeles.

“No Más Bebés” tells the story of how 10 women sued doctors at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center over tubal ligation procedures conducted on them without their knowledge. …

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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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