Showing videos filed under: pesticides

• David Kirby: Cheap Food, Expensive Consequences

  May 19, 2010

  Big 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.

  • animal factory
  • bp oil spill
  • Cheap food
  • Cheap gas
  • david kirby
  • dead zones
  • environment
  • grittv
  • gulf coast
  • gulf of mexico
  • health
  • offshore drilling
  • oil
  • pesticides

• David Kirby, Public Housing, and the Parties in Primaries

  May 19, 2010

  Big 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.

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  • animal factory
  • bp oil spill
  • Center for Constitutional Rights
  • Cheap food
  • Cheap gas
  • community voices heard
  • david kirby
  • dead zones
  • democrats
  • environment
  • foreclosures
  • grittv
  • gulf coast
  • gulf of mexico
  • harlem
  • health
  • homelessness
  • housing
  • housing rights
  • Human Rights
  • Jane Hamsher
  • labor
  • labor movements
  • laura flanders
  • live ins
  • Max Rameau
  • netroots
  • Obama
  • offshore drilling
  • oil
  • organizers
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  • pennsylvania
  • pesticides
  • poverty
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  • primaries
  • public housing
  • right to the city
  • sit ins
  • Take Back the Land Movement
  • The F Word
  • vince warren
  • we call these projects homes
  • working parties

• How Safe is Atrazine?

  September 2, 2009

  The American News Project and The Huffington Post Investigative Fund on how a weed killer, Atrazine, is polluting our water. The second most widely used pesticide in the US, Atrazine is commonly found in groundwater. The corn and ethanol industries depend on it. But what are the risks? The entire EU has banned the use of Atrazine, produced by Syngenta in Switzerland, but in the United States it's still widely used.

  • american news project
  • atrazine
  • corn
  • ethanol
  • huffington post
  • pesticides