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Showing videos filed under: hunger
MoveOn & Moby: Why 30,000 People are Fasting
April 16, 2011This is a moral issue; the budget is a moral document. We can take care of the deficit and rebuild our infrastructure and strengthen our safety net by reducing military spending and eliminating corporate subsidies and tax loopholes for the rich. Or we can sink further into debt and amoral individualism by demonizing and starving the poor. Which side are you on?Armadillo, Moby, Maine Labor Mural and Nancy Goldstein
April 15, 2011"I think it's an identity project that's been given to you, you can go out there and play the hero in the big scene, inscribe yourself in this political rhetoric about the situation," says Janus Metz, who went with a team of Danish soldiers to Afghanistan to make his documentary, Armadillo.Mark Bittman: the Hidden Power and Politics of Planting
March 30, 2011“It’s a matter of political will and a moral question—do you see the rest of the world as your brothers and sisters or not?”Stephanie Miller, Norman Finkelstein & Queer the Census
March 18, 2010Are we, maybe, possibly, going to see an end to the endless health care debate this weekend? With recent reports saying Dennis Kucinich has decided to vote for the bill, signs are pointing to yes. But without a public option, is this really health care reform we can believe in?The F Word: The Femivore's Real Dilemma
March 18, 2010The latest women's movement story from the New York Times Magazine has a farming theme. “The Femivore's Dilemma” by Peggy Orenstein describes how somewhere between the workforce and the housework some women are raising chickens, growing vegetables, raising chicks. tending gardens. Sounds lovely?Bob Dylan: Little Drummer Boy
December 17, 2009Bob Dylan releasing a Christmas album might have thrown some longtime fans, but even with this album Dylan's proving his social consciousness: all artist's royalties from sales of the record go to Feeding America. Hope you like his version of "Little Drummer Boy."Fixing Capitalism, Public Housing, and Kambale Musavuli
December 16, 2009Breaking News: Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time’s Person of the Year. The recession's over! Not so fast.The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger
July 14, 2009In the United States, the gap between rich and poor has grown exponentially in recent years. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the number of Americans who do not earn enough to feed themselves and their families. It is likely that some 50 to 60 million Americans, or one in five, are hungry.The Budget Battle, Chris Bowers, and Coleman v. Franken Part II
April 8, 2009Obama's budget, some have said, is a step in the right direction. So what's in it and what's bound to be cut? We talk to David Cay Johnston and others. Then Chris Bowers on healthcare reform and the budget battle. And Part II of the Uptake's documentary on the Minnesota Senate race.Steve McQueen: Hunger and Irish History
March 24, 2009Laura Flanders speaks to Steve McQueen about the subject of his first film, Hunger, and a period of history that has been largely forgotten.
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