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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.Shannon Biggs & Maude Barlow: Recognizing the Rights of Nature
April 20, 2011"The real issue here is that modern humanity looks at nature as a great big resource for our pleasure, profit and convenience, and we do whatever we want with it. We're in trouble," says Maude Barlow of our current relationship with the our natural world. She and Shannon Biggs have spearheaded the discussion over the legal rights of nature, a discussion that has gone all the way to United Nations, where arguments are now being heard.David Kirby: Cheap Food, Expensive Consequences
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water.David Kirby, Public Housing, and the Parties in Primaries
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water. Currently, there are six million public housing units for nine million people in need of public housing. Right to the City presents, We Call These Projects Homes, interviewing Anne Washington of Community Voices Heard about the need to empower public housing communities to express this need to the government. Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.Christian Parenti, Drill Baby, Spill, and Infotainment As Usual
May 13, 2010The war in Afghanistan seems to be a constant rigmarole of democratization, stabilization, and Al-Qaeda claims. Which is it? Contributing editor to The Nation, Christian Parenti joins us in studio to share his take that the United States response to Afghanistan is a political instance of an iatrogenic disease: an endless cycle of creating more problems with supposed “cures.”BP Oil Spill Threatens Gulf Coast
April 30, 2010An underwater oil spill the size of Jamaica is spreading across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to ruin not only people's Gulf Coast vacations, but also fishing and the life cycles of many birds, fish, and sea turtles who migrate to the Gulf this time each year to mate. Local fishermen may be out of work completely for a season, and the effects on an already-battered area of the country will spread across the nation.Bernie Sanders, BP Oil Spill, and Kathleen Chalfant
April 29, 2010Republicans might have dropped their filibuster and agreed to allow a debate on financial reform, but with the amount of money that Wall Street firms have sunk into both Republicans and Democrats, does it make a difference? And what kind of reform do we really need, anyway?
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