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Showing videos filed under: Science
Vandana Shiva: Understanding the Corporate Takeover
July 21, 2011"The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago," says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine. "The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy."Vandana Shiva, Two Americans and Phoebe Snow
April 29, 2011"The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago," says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine. "The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy."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.Who Owns You? Corporations Patenting Your Genes
October 27, 2009We might think of our genetic code as something natural, part of us, certainly not "intellectual property" in the traditional sense. Yet corporations doing medical research have begun to patent certain genes, calling into question the whole idea of where property begins and ends.Our Internet, Not Theirs, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and Who Owns You?
October 26, 2009Corporations have edged into nearly every area of our lives, impacting decisions we make on a daily basis, from health care to the food we eat to the way we get our news and information. Today on GRITtv we take a look at a couple of places that corporate control is being challenged.A "Living" Coat?
March 6, 2009Oron Catts uses science to create art. But the work itself, including a "living" coat made of mouse cells, raises many questions about how we define life and how we define art. Catts is a Tissue engineering artist and the Co-founder and Director of SymbioticA.Can we Afford the Republican Right's War on Science?
September 25, 2008What does a belief in evolution have to do with the economy? Quite a bit. With John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, the question of religious fundamentalism and its pervasive influence on America politics is on the table in a major way. Environmentalist Chip Ward wrote recently that a Palin vice presidency would be, "the equivalent of launching a 'surge strategy' in the Republican war on the
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