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Showing videos filed under: globalization
Helena Norberg-Hodge: The Economics of Happiness
January 28, 2011"Economics has a lot to do with unhappiness," says Helena Norberg-Hodge, co-director of The Economics of Happiness. "We have an economic system that is systematically creating job scarcity worldwide," she notes, and it's time that we stopped obsessing about bottom lines, corporate growth, and income at the top and started to think about other ways of measuring positive effects in global society.Laurie Penny, the Economics of Happiness, and Snow Justice
January 27, 2011"It's a very, very exciting time to be involved in politics," says the New Statesman's Laurie Penny, who has a cover story in the magazine this week on what's next for the student protesters in London now that the Liberal Democrat/Conservative government has passed the education budget cuts. Disability funding and even the National Health Service are in the sights of the government's hatchet, and the students are hard at work reaching out to broaden their coalition.Chrystia Freeland: Tracking The New Super-Elite
January 7, 2011A multibillion-dollar bailout and Wall Street’s swift, subsequent reinstatement of gargantuan bonuses have inspired a narrative of parasitic bankers and other elites rigging the game for their own benefit. And this, in turn, has led to wider—and not unreasonable—fears that we are living in not merely a plutonomy, but a plutocracy, in which the rich display outsize political influence, narrowly self-interested motives, and a casual indifference to anyone outside their own rarefied economic bubble.Nancy Giles, The New Super-Elite, and Who's in the News
January 6, 2011John Boehner took charge of the House of Representatives with a bang--a really big bang, from a really big gavel. Also a few tears, of course, and a dramatic reading of the Constitution--though Nancy Giles notes that the Republicans might be surprised as to what they find in there, as they tend to treat it more like a game of Mad Libs.Got Docs: The Economics of Happiness
December 4, 2010What is the key to happiness? How about "community"? This new film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and John Page looks at the crisis caused by globalization, and suggests that maybe the solutions to our problems lie in the local economies, local culture and local communities that have been pushed aside to make way for corporate progress.Anna McCarthy & Jenn Pozner, the Economics of Happiness, and Fire in my Belly
December 3, 2010Mad Men harks back to an era when advertising was art and television was educational--maybe. Meanwhile, reality television gives us messages that seem to fit right in with a 1950s ethos--right down to the race, gender, and class politics. Television is everywhere, and everyone is talking about it, so we asked Anna McCarthy, NYU professor and author of The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America, and Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women in Media and News and author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, to join us to talk TV.Week In Review: The Battle in Seattle: 10 Years Later
December 6, 2009Ten years on, what did we learn in Seattle, at the biggest progressive victory in many activists' lives? Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films, Han Shan, formerly of the Ruckus Society and coordinator of Clean Up Ecuador with Amazon Watch, Margrete Strand of the Blue Green Alliance and the Sierra Club, and Eddie Yuen, co-author of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, join us to discuss the alliances built in Seattle and where the movement is now.The Battle in Seattle: Learning from Victory
December 1, 2009Ten years on, what did we learn in Seattle, at the biggest progressive victory in many activists' lives? Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films, Han Shan, formerly of the Ruckus Society and coordinator of Clean Up Ecuador with Amazon Watch, Margrete Strand of the Blue Green Alliance and the Sierra Club, and Eddie Yuen, co-author of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, join us to discuss the alliances built in Seattle and where the movement is now.Battle in Seattle, Copenhagen Protests, and World AIDS Day
November 30, 2009It's 2009, and the biggest front of global action is on climate change. The US has moved from the flat denials of the Bush era to an acceptance of the problem, but solutions still elude us. As always, the people will have to lead.You've heard of Jeremiah Wright. You've heard of John Hagee. Now meet The Family.
June 5, 2008Who exactly were the “Founding Fathers” of the United States of America? Were they patriots and leaders of the American Revolution who later went on to framing one of the greatest pieces of writing in America; the United Stated Constitution? Or were they something never really described in our history textbooks?
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