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Showing videos filed under: koch
Laura Flanders on The Ed Show, February 22
February 23, 2011"A revival is happening here," Laura noted on MSNBC's Ed Show Tuesday night from Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the protests she's seen this week in Madison, Columbus, and around the country. "There is a thin blue union line between poverty and the middle class for Americans," Laura says.Philip Rizk, Phyllis Bennis, Uncloaking Koch & Inequality
January 31, 2011"People are sick and tired of the way things have been for the past 30 years," says Philip Rizk, a blogger and filmmaker based in Cairo. In 2009, Philip was detained by state security after taking part in a protest in support of Gaza, and so has intimate awareness of the control and terror inflicted by the state on its people--who are only escalating, with a general strike called for today and a "Million March" for Tuesday.The F Word: Inequality Drives Egyptians to Streets, But Ours Worse
January 31, 2011It's amazing what inequality can drive people to, eventually. Just look at Egypt. “These big guys are stealing all the money,” one 24-year-old textile worker told standing at his second job as a fruit peddler told a reporter this weekend. "People are desperate.”
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