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Showing videos filed under: Green for All
Green for All: Rebuilding New Orleans
September 8, 2010Hurricane Katrina and the BP spill have hit New Orleans with a double whammy, but the one bright side has been the opportunity to create not just new jobs for local residents, but green jobs, jobs that help the city move into a new energy future. This video from Green for All looks at just a few of the residents of the city who've found a new purpose helping weatherize homes and better their neighborhoods.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Green Jobs, and Human Rights in the U.S.
September 7, 2010"Class war is when you have corporations sitting on $8 billion," says Katrina vanden Heuvel of complaints from the Right, personified by John McCain's opposition to overturning the Bush tax cuts. Until the economy is back to working for everyone, until our infrastructure is no longer crumbling, it's not time to talk about tax breaks for the rich.Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Personal Fight for Green Jobs
September 1, 2010The struggle for green jobs brings together the struggle for sustainability and a cleaner environment and the fight against poverty--a struggle for justice for all. Green for All unites these struggles into one movement, as CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins explained at Netroots Nation, in a personal discussion of her past and present experiences with poverty and the environment.Jan Schakowsky, Green Jobs, and Student Activism
August 31, 2010Recently at Netroots Nation, Laura sat down with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who's been a leader in the fight against the use of private contractors like Blackwater in war zones (and at home). Our friends at the UpTake captured this video for us, as she spoke with Laura about jobs, the economy, military contractors, and the war in Afghanistan--especially the role of women in the conflict there.Green Jobs for Buffalo
August 20, 2010"The fastest way to stop a bullet is to give someone a job, and what better job to give them than the one that transforms where they live?" That's the question for Buffalo, New York, as People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) leads the community's struggle for better, greener jobs for everyone--and to improve the food supply and surroundings for the community as well.Marleine Bastien, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, and Green for Buffalo
August 19, 2010"Community organizer" was Sarah Palin's favorite slur on the campaign trail, but grassroots organizers have been fighting for the rights of marginalized people, often without recognition, for longer than Palin has been around. Marleine Bastien has been an organizer in the Haitian-American community in Miami for 30 years, and is now running for Congress.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.Voices from the Gulf Coast: Theresa Seafood Inc.
June 11, 2010While BP oil continues to clog the Gulf, people's livelihoods and lives are being destroyed along with fish and birds.Our friends at Green For All bring us this story of one company, one small group of people, being impacted by the disaster. Green for All is initiating a Dirty Energy Hurts campaign to fight back against BP's PR millions, reminding us that drill, baby, drill is not an energy policy.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.
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