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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.
The F Word: US Lack of Investment is Destabilizing the World
April 20, 2011
Here in the US all we seem to hear about is deficits and debt. Yet even the countries that hold a lot of our debt are concerned for our lack of investment at home.
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.
Nawal El Saadawi, Helen Thomas, Sarah Posner and Innovation
February 14, 2011
"I feel reborn," says Egyptian feminist author and activist Nawal El Saadawi. "I am 80, but I feel young, I feel all my energy coming back, I feel my childhood dream coming back."
The F Word: Outsourcing Potential, Forgetting Workers
February 14, 2011
“We need better intelligence, the kind that is derived not from intercepting a president’s phone calls to his mistress but from hanging out with the powerless.”
Biko Baker, Jane Hamsher, Naomi Klein & State of the Union
January 25, 2011
Barack Obama isn't the only one giving a talk tonight--the League of Young Voters will be bringing together some top thinkers, activists, and artists to have a live conversation streaming on the Web, as well as on Twitter and Facebook. "We have to keep going deeper," notes Biko Baker, the League's executive director, "We have to step up and be a lot stronger on jobs."
The F Word: No Solutions at State of the Union
January 25, 2011
Obama will deliver his take on the State of the Union tonight and while congress has bickered about bipartisan seating, it doesn't matter where anyone sits because the profiteers who define what’s possible in our politics have already barred any serious solution to what ails us.
Erica Payne & Heidi Shierholz: "Competitiveness" and the Economy
January 25, 2011
"We have deified businessmen while denigrating government workers," says Erica Payne of the Agenda Project, and there's no better example of that than President Obama appointing GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head a commission on jobs and competitiveness. Heading into the State of the Union speech, Heidi Shierholz stresses that businesses aren't hiring and creating jobs because there is not enough demand--because people are not buying goods or services.
"Competitiveness", Mental Health in Arizona, and Palestine Papers
January 24, 2011
"We have deified businessmen while denigrating government workers," says Erica Payne of the Agenda Project, and there's no better example of that than President Obama appointing GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head a commission on jobs and competitiveness. Heading into the State of the Union speech, Heidi Shierholz stresses that businesses aren't hiring and creating jobs because there is not enough demand--because people are not buying goods or services.

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