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Showing videos filed under: gulf coast
Mike Papantonio: One Year Later, BP's Still Avoiding Responsibility
April 21, 2011"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.Mike Papantonio, Maude Barlow & Shannon Biggs, and Investing at Home
April 20, 2011"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.Naomi Klein: The Search for BP's Oil
January 26, 2011As we've noted before, the oil from BP's spill in the Gulf didn't just magically disappear. Naomi Klein and Big Noise Films' Jacqui Soohen headed to the Gulf aboard the research vessel Weatherbird II, they found plenty of evidence of the damage still being done. It's not just the birds and dolphins we have to worry about, the scientists note in this report from our friends at the Nation.Biko Baker, Jane Hamsher, Naomi Klein & State of the Union
January 25, 2011Barack Obama isn't the only one giving a talk tonight--the League of Young Voters will be bringing together some top thinkers, activists, and artists to have a live conversation streaming on the Web, as well as on Twitter and Facebook. "We have to keep going deeper," notes Biko Baker, the League's executive director, "We have to step up and be a lot stronger on jobs."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.Rebuilding New Orleans: Bill Quigley, Tracie Washington, Melissa Leo
August 30, 2010"We can't spray dispersant on poor people and expect they go away," Tracie Washington says, calling attention at once to the plight of the people of New Orleans, still struggling to rebuild, and the ongoing issues with the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. Like the oil that BP claims to have cleaned up, the problems left behind by Hurricane Katrina are still there, just a little bit harder to see.The F Word: Boats for All Next Time
August 30, 2010Five years ago this weekend, New Orleans nearly drowned. It didn't look that way at first -- the eye of Hurricane Katrina hit to the east, but the levee breaks that followed took out entire neighborhoods. The water didn't kill New Orleans. But the private solution approach to public problems almost did. People for whom no rising economic tides had ever lifted their boat, were left to fend for themselves. We saw them on roofs and streets, for days.BP's Cleaning Only Skims the Surface
August 3, 2010"Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less." That's according to "Martha," a hazardous waste worker in the Gulf, who joins us via Skype anonymously to report on the conditions workers are facing cleaning up BP's mess.Inside BP Cleanup, Andrew Bacevich, and Valuing Teachers
August 3, 2010"Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less." That's according to "Martha," a hazardous waste worker in the Gulf, who joins us via Skype anonymously to report on the conditions workers are facing cleaning up BP's mess.
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