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Showing videos filed under: sierra club
Mark Hertsgaard and Sarah Laskow, Finding Louisiana's Methadone
July 12, 2010Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard reminds us that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict.JoAnn Wypijewski, Louisiana's Methadone, the Houma Nation and Amazon Empire
July 12, 2010November elections are coming up and democrats around the country are starting to wonder if they can hold onto the House. Author and Nation contributor JoAnn Wypijewski joins us in the studio to describe her on the ground tour of the United States – talking to people, and figuring out the political fabric at stake. Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard claims that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict. Since its launch 15 years ago Amazon has grown to be, by some measure, the largest bookseller in the world. According to its founder Jeff Bezos, this ascent has been achieved by giving customers what they want: convenience, wide choice and low, low prices.Week In Review: The Battle in Seattle: 10 Years Later
December 6, 2009Ten years on, what did we learn in Seattle, at the biggest progressive victory in many activists' lives? Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films, Han Shan, formerly of the Ruckus Society and coordinator of Clean Up Ecuador with Amazon Watch, Margrete Strand of the Blue Green Alliance and the Sierra Club, and Eddie Yuen, co-author of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, join us to discuss the alliances built in Seattle and where the movement is now.The Battle in Seattle: Learning from Victory
December 1, 2009Ten years on, what did we learn in Seattle, at the biggest progressive victory in many activists' lives? Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films, Han Shan, formerly of the Ruckus Society and coordinator of Clean Up Ecuador with Amazon Watch, Margrete Strand of the Blue Green Alliance and the Sierra Club, and Eddie Yuen, co-author of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, join us to discuss the alliances built in Seattle and where the movement is now.Battle in Seattle, Copenhagen Protests, and World AIDS Day
November 30, 2009It's 2009, and the biggest front of global action is on climate change. The US has moved from the flat denials of the Bush era to an acceptance of the problem, but solutions still elude us. As always, the people will have to lead.
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