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Showing videos filed under: ecuador
Greg Grandin: Beck, BP and Latin America's Leadership
June 18, 2010Latin America is ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting resource-extracting corporations, says NYU professor Greg Grandin. While Obama makes nice with BP CEO Tony Hayward (and Glenn Beck claims that Obama is unfair to Hayward because he's white), Grandin notes, social movements across South and Central America have been fighting the companies that are after their resources for a while now--and dealing with the repercussions; often violent death squads, as well.Greg Grandin, Youth Unemployment, and Obama's Power
June 17, 2010Latin America is ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting resource-extracting corporations, says NYU professor Greg Grandin. While Obama makes nice with BP CEO Tony Hayward (and Glenn Beck claims that Obama is unfair to Hayward because he's white), Grandin notes, social movements across South and Central America have been fighting the companies that are after their resources for a while now--and dealing with the repercussions; often violent death squads, as well.Antonia Juhasz & Joe Berlinger: Big Oil's Devastation
June 16, 2010"Oil is a messy business, even when it's legal," says filmmaker Joe Berlinger, and we've all seen the effects of that business splashed across front pages and television sets over the last month. But the BP disaster isn't the only mess that Big Oil has caused in the last couple of months, to say nothing of the years and decades past. The newest oil mess to be cleaned up is a Chevron spill in Utah that has flooded a Salt Lake City creek with thousands of gallons from a pipeline with what was described as a "quarter-sized hole" in it.Cary Harrison, Big Oil's Destruction, and Palin Meets Thatcher
June 16, 2010Our politics are all about emotion over intellect, says radio host Cary Harrison. From billionaires winning Republican primaries by pretending to be fighting for the common man to Chevron distributing fans at gay pride events, it certainly seems like something is missing. Common sense? Or is it just the money is stacked to one side? And on a completely different note, just what happened with Gen. Petraeus at that Senate Armed Services Committee hearing?Emergildo Criollo: Chevron, Clean it Up!
March 11, 2010Emergildo Criollo is an indigenous leader from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest. He recorded this message for oil giant Chevron's CEO John Watson: clean up your toxic contamination. In early March 2010, Emergildo traveled from the Amazon to California, to deliver a letter appealing for clean-up, along with 325,000 petitions from supporters in more than 150 countries.Militarizing Haiti, Simon Kashama, and David Paterson's Troubles
March 10, 2010Arun Gupta joins guest host Esther Armah in the studio, along with Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, who just returned from Haiti, to talk about the rebuilding effort underway and how people in the U.S. can help make sure Haiti is rebuilt for the Haitian people.Ecuador to Chevron: Do The Right Thing
February 3, 2010Chevron oil company has contributed for years to devastating environmental damage in Ecuador and the Amazon region. Citizens of Ecuador call on new Chevron CEO John Watson to do the right thing and help clean up the damage his company has caused.Bumbling Buggers, Ben Jealous, and Remembering Howard Zinn
February 2, 2010Yesterday, Laura called our attention to the strange tale of the attempt at bugging Senator Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, noting the stories uncovered by indie reporters connecting the dots between the ACORN sting, the break-in, and funding flowing into universities from the nation's intelligence agencies--as well as right-wing organizations.Year in Review: Evo Morales
December 29, 2009Bolivian president Evo Morales cruised to reelection December 6th with 64% of the vote, and a New York Times blogger wrote during the Copenhagen climate talks that he "was the face of poor countries calling for the rich nations, which built nearly all of the existing human-generated blanket of greenhouse gases, to pay a “climate debt” to the world’s vulnerable communities."Evo Morales
April 29, 2009Last week, Bolivia’s president Evo Morales was in New York to commemorate Earth Day at the United Nations. GRITtv sat down with Morales and talked about his equality agenda, socialism, and the Bolivian banking system.
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