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Massive participation is expected in northern California today for the one-day general strike called for by Occupy Oakland and supported by labor unions. Occupy Oakland protestors have asked area residents to stay home from work and school and join in planned demonstrations. However, three rallies are planned for the day, at 9am, noon, and 5pm, because …

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Activist and Academy award winning film maker Michael Moore has been front and center in the Occupy Wall Street movement. His 2009 film Capitalism: A Love Story, laid bare many of the predatory corporate actions that led to the recession. Addressing a number of Occupy encampments these past weeks, Moore has called for “replacing capitalism as we …

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A federal judge yesterday issued a temporary restraining order requested by Occupy Nashville, putting a stop to arrests of protestors for curfew violations. Aided by the ACLU, Occupy Nashville protestors sued Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and two others in his administration over what they say is an illegal curfew aimed at breaking up their encampment. Governor Haslam established the curfew less than 24 hours …

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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.

Elections are next week! Over a hundred local elections within Los Angeles County are scheduled for November 8th, 2011. There are about 80 school district elections ranging from Antelope Valley Joint Union High and Whittier Union High to Santa …

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When a group of Swedish reporters came to the United States to document the Black Power movement in the 1960s, little did they know that their footage would be the basis for a documentary nearly forty years later. Swedes were fascinated by the American civil rights movement and what followed it. Armed with cameras, they arrived in the U.S. and simply knocked on doors, …

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Occupy Oakland and Iraq Veterans Against the War called on people around the nation yesterday to hold vigils for Scott Olsen, the 24 year old Iraq vet who was critically injured by Oakland police on Tuesday. The Washington Post is now reporting that Olsen’s condition has been upgraded to “fair” and he remains in the Intensive Care …

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Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.

Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.

Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch his videos …

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Oakland’s mayor and police department are facing national scrutiny this week over a violent police crackdown on the Occupy Oakland encampment that resulted in a 24 year old Iraq war veteran being critically injured. Scott OIsen survived the Iraq war only to be hit in the head by a police projectile. He is currently in critical care at Highland Hospital in East Oakland with …

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A day of arrests and raids at the Occupy Oakland encampment yesterday has resulted in more than a 100 people taken into custody. Protesters had set up tents at the Frank Ogawa Plaza at City Hall, and on an annex in a park near Lake Merritt. Over a thousand people were determined to remain where they were …

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Children as young as four years old can now be diagnosed and medicated for Attention Deficit Disorder or ADHD based on new guidelines issued by The American Academy of Pediatrics. Ten years ago the diagnosis could only be made for children between the ages of 6 and 12, but now the official age range has been expanded …