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Showing videos filed under: andrew cockburn
The People Fight Back Against Wells Fargo, A Foreclosure in Long Island, and The Cockburn's American Casino
August 26, 2009The city of Baltimore sued Wells Fargo in June for racial profiling while workers in Chicago took to the streets to protest its refusal to extend credit for Quad City Die Casting Company. Our guests tell explain what Wells Fargo got away with and how people are fighting back. Then, Long Island resident Olive Thompson's house was one of the hundreds of thousands that faced foreclosure due to the crisis. We went to her home in April to speak with her.American Casino
April 28, 2009How did it all come crashing down? The house that Wall Street built? Well, it wasn’t so much a house as it was a casino. Leslie and Andrew Cockburn discuss their new film, American Casino and explain how we all lost.American Casino, A Physician in Gaza, and the Left Forum
April 27, 2009Leslie and Andrew Cockburn discuss their new film, American Casino and explain how we all lost as Wall Street made the rules. An interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, a physician who has worked and practiced medicine in Gaza for more than thirty years. And a report from the Left Forum held here in New York last weekend.Leslie Cockburn: American Casino
March 28, 2009Leslie and Andrew Cockburn in their film American Casino examine how the subprime crisis happened. From interviews with defectors of Bear Stearns and Standard and Poor's to average working class Americans the Cockburns get the inside scoop from those who profited and those who've suffered. The film premiers at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.All the Rage, Chris Hedges on our Moral Collapse, and Casino Capitalism
March 24, 2009Chris Hedges on our financial and moral collapse. Young activists try to channel all that rage. And a new film by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn: American Casino.
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