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Showing videos filed under: economic justice
Bob Herbert: Still Working the Beat of Left-Out People
April 20, 2011"There is a hunger out there for some kind of serious approach to the big issue of the day, and you have to be creative about it—but that’s our job," says former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert of today's media landscape. Bob joined us in his first in-depth interview since leaving the New York Times in March of this year.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Bob Herbert, and Missed Connections
April 19, 2011"We need to stay loudly and clearly that there is an alternative. The debate underway is suffocatingly narrow," says Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, of the way the conversation about jobs and the economy has become a conversation about spending and deficits. Meanwhile, she notes, outside of the Beltway, independent media and independent activists like US Uncut are fighting hard to change the conversation.EXTREME INEQUALITY: Race and the Mortgage Meltdown
July 2, 2008The racial wealth divide is growing. The mortgage meltdown will disproportionately affect African-Americans. Dedrick Muhammad tells us why and what a further entrenchment of the racial wealth divide means.Whose now gets to be urgent, anyway?
June 12, 2008In late May Sweden was host to a huge UN conference on a thing called the International Compact with Iraq. 600 delegates from countries (and countries unto themselves, the IMF and World Bank) came to put their two cents into the future of Iraq. Separately, a Swedish organization hosted a panel event with Iraq women because they'd not been invited to sit or be heard in this global conclave on their futures.
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