{"id":39366,"date":"2014-03-24T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39366"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:18:12","slug":"daily-news-flash-with-robert-jensen-on-egypt-death-sentences-un-womens-rights-declaration-and-texas-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/24\/daily-news-flash-with-robert-jensen-on-egypt-death-sentences-un-womens-rights-declaration-and-texas-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash with Robert Jensen on Egypt Death Sentences, UN Women&#8217;s Rights Declaration, and Texas Oil Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140324Uprising\/2014_03_24_newsflash_jensen.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Robert Jensen <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140324Uprising\/2014_03_24_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/dailynewsflash.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Uprising\u2019s guest expert Robert Jensen, a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines:<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred and twenty eight Egyptians have been sentenced to death in a serious set-back for the Egyptian revolution. More than a thousand supporters of Egypt&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood organization have been imprisoned since the ouster of President Mohammad Morsi by Egypt&#8217;s army last year. Of those, about half have now been sentenced to death, convicted of various crimes including the murder of a police officer. A Brotherhood spokesperson told the BBC in London, &#8220;This is the new dictatorship that [army chief and defense minister, Field Marshal] Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is trying to establish.&#8221; Hundreds more Brotherhood supporters are expected to be tried tomorrow. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-26712124\">Click here<\/a> for a BBC article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>An Egyptian minister and women&#8217;s rights activist Mervat Tallawy, spoke out in favor of a declaration approved on Saturday by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The declaration reaffirmed women&#8217;s sexual and reproductive rights, addressed the disproportionate effect of poverty on women, and went as far as calling for sex education for all adolescents. Tallawy said, &#8220;We will never give in to the prevailing web of conservatism against women in all regions of the world.&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/americas\/2014\/03\/un-document-equality-women-approved-201432284734263531.html \">Click here<\/a> for an Al Jazeera article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 160,000 gallons of toxic marine shipping oil have spilled off the coast of Texas after an oil carrying barge collided with a ship. The substance that spilled into the water is apparently &#8220;a special bunker fuel oil.&#8221; The spill, which the US Coast guard considers &#8220;extremely serious,&#8221; comes on the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill that dumped 11 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Alaska. <em><a href=\" http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/03\/23\/3417916\/oil-spill-galveston-bay\/ \">Click here<\/a> for a Think Progress report about the Texas spill, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/blog\/2014\/mar\/24\/exxon-valdez-oil-spill-disaster-arctic\">here <\/a>for a Guardian story about the Exxon Valdez spill anniversary.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uprising\u2019s guest expert Robert Jensen, a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: Five hundred and twenty eight Egyptians have been sentenced to death in a serious set-back for the Egyptian revolution. 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