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Showing videos filed under: hydrofracking
Mark Ruffalo: Thank God for Fracking (And Josh Fox)
September 17, 2011Actor/Director Mark Ruffalo hails Emmy Award winner Josh Fox (Gasland) and talks to Laura Flanders of GRITtv about the impact of Hurricane Irene on the Catskill region where he lives -- and where big energy corporations want to "frack" for gas.Got Docs: Water on the Table
March 5, 2011Is water a human right? That's the question at the center of the new documentary Water On The Table, featuring former GRITtv guest Maude Barlow. Maude has devoted her life to fighting corporate interests to keep our water clean and available for everyone--future generations as well as the present one. Filmmaker Liz Marshall set out to bring an epic vision of Canada's water and the battle over it to the screen,and you can find out more about Maude and the movie through the links here.Maria Isa & Lah Tere, Water On The Table, & Immigration
March 4, 2011"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US.John Lewis, All Fracked Up and Stop the Bullying
October 8, 2010"We didn't have sponsors when we came to Washington in 1963. We didn't have sponsors when we marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The young people that came to Mississippi in 1964, and three of my colleagues died, didn't have sponsors. We came out of the feeling that we wanted to redeem the soul of America."Stand Up New York: Fighting Fracking
July 28, 2010The story of the fight over hydraulic fracturing--hydrofracking or "fracking"--for natural gas in New York contains some familiar villains, it turns out. It was Dick Cheney's Halliburton that discovered the technique, and Cheney's pressure that got it approved by the EPA. And in case we needed to be reminded that it's no more safe than drilling for oil in the Gulf, our friends at Stand Up New York made this little video...Maude Barlow, Greg Palast, and Americans with Disabilities
July 27, 2010Despite what you learned in science class in school, Maude Barlow says, it is in fact possible for the Earth to be running out of water. Pollution and population are on the rise, and corporations encroach on the water rights of people around the world, fencing off and bottling up a natural resource that should be available to all.
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