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Showing videos filed under: privatization
David Newby: Rebuilding Labor Beyond Wisconsin
March 17, 2011"There's going to have to be a new kind of union movement. It's got to be one that is much more rank and file, much more bottom up, the organization has to be in the workplace, and in order to go beyond legalistically bargaining wages, people have to take action in the place that they work," says David Newby of the AFL-CIO.Mike Papantonio, David Newby, Kabzuag Vaj & Monica Adams
March 16, 2011"Even knowing what's happening in Japan, we have Republicans saying we have to cut regulatory spending on places like nuclear energy," says Mike Papantonio, who notes the similarities between the refusal to learn from BP and the refusal to learn, now, from a deepening disaster in Japan.The Coming Water Shock
November 16, 2010"We're on a collision course with our finite supply of water," says Susan Leal, co-author of the new book Running Out of Water. It's not just that the supply is limited, she notes, it's our growing population, increased personal use, and climate change that are all playing into what journalist Anna Lenzer calls "the coming shock."Dean Baker, Laurie Penny, and the Coming Water Crisis
November 15, 2010“It's the wrong answer to not a problem," says Dean Baker of the report out last week from the leaders of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. The report, which recommends massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care programs, has been roundly criticized by progressives for its targeting, but Dean notes that the biggest problem with it is that without the health care crisis we still have, we wouldn't have deficits in the first place.Diane Ravitch: Race to the Top or Skim off the Top?
July 20, 2010"We're lying to our kids," says professor and former charter school advocate and supporter of No Child Left Behind Diane Ravitch. High-stakes testing and punishing teachers for low-scoring kids is failing, according to her research; moreover, charter schools are only successful, when they are, because they can select the best students from the failing districts in which they are located.Greg Mitchell, Diane Ravitch on Failing Schools, and the Media on Sexual Assault
July 19, 2010Everywhere you look, jobs are cut, programs are eliminated, and the fat is trimmed as closely as possible leaving only the bare bones of our society. Well, almost everywhere. It seems that for all the costs being cut surrounding education and employment benefits, a disproportionate amount of money has poured into intelligence, better known as the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. This imbalance in public spending and private contractors prompted the Washington Post to conduct a two-year long investigation into this hidden, growing world.A Movement in Oaxaca
February 17, 2009In 2006 New York reporter and activist Brad Will was killed by paramilitaries in Oaxaca, where he was covering a teachers’ strike. Since the strike--demanding higher salaries and free books for all students--the movement has expanded but the violence hasn’t stopped. Tami Gold, in her film Land, Rain and Fire looks at the impact of Nafta, privatization, and land appropriation on the people of the region.
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