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Showing videos filed under: bp oil spill
JoAnn Wypijewski: What Democrats Are Up Against
July 13, 2010November elections are coming up and democrats around the country are starting to wonder if they can hold onto the House. Author and Nation contributor JoAnn Wypijewski joins us in the studio to describe her on the ground tour of the United States – talking to people, and figuring out the political fabric at stake.Unheard Voices from the Gulf Coast: The United Houma Nation
July 13, 2010Green for All’s “Unheard Voices from the Gulf Coast” presents us with the experience of the United Houma Nation in the Dulac community of the southeastern bayous in Louisiana.JoAnn Wypijewski, Louisiana's Methadone, the Houma Nation and Amazon Empire
July 12, 2010November elections are coming up and democrats around the country are starting to wonder if they can hold onto the House. Author and Nation contributor JoAnn Wypijewski joins us in the studio to describe her on the ground tour of the United States – talking to people, and figuring out the political fabric at stake. Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard claims that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict. Since its launch 15 years ago Amazon has grown to be, by some measure, the largest bookseller in the world. According to its founder Jeff Bezos, this ascent has been achieved by giving customers what they want: convenience, wide choice and low, low prices.Max Fraser & Michael Whitney: The Convoluted Future of Labor
June 22, 2010Despite the enormous growth under Andy Stern’s leadership, current president Mary Kay says that the SEIU is still fighting for paid sickdays. None of the laborers cleaning up the gulf coast are even under a union contract in the first place.Richard Kim: Republican Private Property Hypocrisy
June 21, 2010Republicans discuss their values as if they are defending small government and private property, but they’ve evolving much more towards being the defense line of corporate America in recent years.Richard Kim, The Future of Labor and Melissa Harris-Lacewell
June 21, 2010Republicans discuss their values as if they are defending small government and private property, but they’ve evolving much more towards being the defense line of corporate America in recent years. Despite the enormous growth under Andy Stern’s leadership, current president Mary Kay says that the SEIU is still fighting for paid sickdays. None of the laborers cleaning up the gulf coast are even under a union contract in the first place.David Kirby: Cheap Food, Expensive Consequences
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water.David Kirby, Public Housing, and the Parties in Primaries
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water. Currently, there are six million public housing units for nine million people in need of public housing. Right to the City presents, We Call These Projects Homes, interviewing Anne Washington of Community Voices Heard about the need to empower public housing communities to express this need to the government. Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.Emily Gertz and Kieran Suckling: Politics, Big Oil, and Environmental Neglect
May 18, 2010As the infamous BP oil spill creates more environmental devastation in the Gulf Coast, we look towards politics, big oil, and regulations or lack thereof for reasons why this happened and how to prevent it in the future. However, Barack Obama continues to undermine the catastrophe as an anomaly and push for offshore drilling. In a system fraught with entangled political, economic, and environmental policy, how can we manage to procure safety rather than ignore it?Unheard Voices From The Gulf Coast Oil Spill
May 18, 2010Many people have described the shrimpers and fisherpeople affected by the BP oil spill as unheard by the mass media. What many people don’t understand, is many of these people are literally unheard in the midst of this crisis –a large proportion of the shrimper and fisherpeople demographic in the Gulf Coast are Vietnamese and do not speak English.
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