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Showing videos filed under: Evo Morales
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.Bolivia's Struggle for Water
June 10, 2010In Bolivia, it is estimated that over 1/3 of the population faces a daily struggle to get enough water. The country now recognizes water as a basic human right, and has struggled in the past with multinational corporations attempting to make a profit off the people's needs. Tami Woronoff and Jennifer Utz were in Bolivia recently and filed this report on the ongoing fight for water.Bill Fletcher Jr., Bolivia's Water, BP and Afghanistan
June 9, 2010"It was a Sister Souljah moment," says Bill Fletcher Jr. of Bill Clinton's support for Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in her primary battle against insurgent Bill Halter. Lincoln, of course, is one of the Democrats whose refusal to support the Employee Free Choice Act keeps labor from expanding its base. Labor came out for Bill Halter, but the party elites supported Lincoln and helped her keep her seat.Bill Fletcher Jr., Foreclosures and Financial Reform, and Cochabamba
April 23, 2010President Obama came to New York to deliver a speech at Cooper Union this week, critiquing the financial crisis and making the case for the financial regulation bill heading for a Senate vote. He made the case for both free markets and for regulations on those markets, and called for Americans to come together to support financial regulation.Cochabamba: The People vs. Climate Destruction
April 22, 2010"We are gathered here because the so-called developed countries didn't meet their obligation of establishing substantial commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen,"said Bolivian president Evo Morales at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.Putting a Price on Climate Change
April 21, 2010The People’s World Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia kicks off this week (and we will have more from there soon), but you wouldn't know it from the media here in the U.S. Despite the 40th anniversary of Earth Day this month, the subject seems to be falling by the wayside as financial regulation takes center stage.John Fugelsang, Climate Change, and Coal Goes Shopping
April 20, 2010Gun advocates rallied this week in support of their right to bear arms, the Pope has said that his church has sinned, Goldman Sachs is giving out bonuses in the throes of SEC charges, and laptops are taking pictures of kids while they sleep! This may sound like a vision of the end times, but really it's just another week in the news these days.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."Week in Review: Honduras Coup
December 19, 2009"The Obama administration now has both the continuing Honduran crisis and a divided hemisphere on its hands, with no solution in sight," reads a new article in The Nation today. The U.S. has decided to recognize the result of the recent elections in Honduras, despite ongoing reports that the elections were boycotted and that the people consider them an extension of the coup.
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