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Grace Lee Boggs Challenges Occupy Wall Street Protestors to Reinvent Society and Not Just “Expose the Enemy”

  By sherry | February 16, 2013 - 2:23 am | Activism, Community, Detroit, Occupy Wall Street, Video
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On Being with Krista Tippett
BY TRENT GILLISS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011 – 10:15AM

A couple of weeks ago we posted Grace Lee Boggs’ first video in which she called on Occupy Wall Street participants to use this moment as a time for personal contemplation and reflection. Here is a follow-up video in which she challenges the 99% movement not to just “expose the enemy” but to become the solution by reinventing society, work, education, and culture.

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The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Chris Hedges: Hear the 99% Roar

  By Patti Walters | November 20, 2012 - 6:04 pm | 99% Movement, Home Foreclosures, Jobs, Unemployment, Video, Wall Street, War, Zuccotti Park
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Published Aug. 29,2012

The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Chris Hedges: Hear the 99% Roar

About the video:

Chris Hedges on what he sees as the consequences of an uneven distribution of wealth: destruction, violence and revolt. He tells Piya Chattopadhyay what the Occupy movement should be about and how best to deal with these socioeconomic issues in the public discourse.
Published on: August 29, 2012 |
Length: 25:40 |
Views: 2188
|  This video is available until: August 29, 2099

The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Daily current affairs show offering in-depth analysis and intelligent debate on issues of concern in the rapidly changing world around us.

“The Servant Economy: Where America’s Elite is Sending the Middle Class”

  By sherry | September 9, 2012 - 5:00 pm | Economics, Employment, Middle Class, Outsourcing Jobs
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Jeff Faux

About the Program

Jeff Faux, founding president of the Economic Policy Institute, predicts a dark future for the middle class in the U.S.  Says that by the mid-2020s, American workers will see a significant decrease in their incomes and have less opportunities for employment as service jobs move overseas.  Hosted by AFL-CIO in Washington, DC.

About the Authors

Jeff Faux

 

Jeff Faux is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and the author of “The Global Class War.”  His work has appeared in The American Prospect and The Nation.

Watch the video: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307907-1

After Words: Donald Barlett & James Steele, “The Betrayal of the American Dream,” host Juan Williams, The Hill

  By sherry | September 9, 2012 - 4:50 pm | Books, Deregulation, Government, Middle Class, Outsourcing Jobs, Wall Street
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About the Program

In their latest book, the acclaimed investigative journalism team of Barlett and Steele argue that Washington and Wall Street have dismantled the foundations of America’s middle class through a series of actions over several decades.  Chief among those destructive actions, they say, was deregulation of various industries and outsourcing of manufacturing jobs.  They discuss the plight of the middle class with Juan Williams, columnist for The Hill and Fox News analyst.

About the Authors

Donald Barlett & James Steele

Donald Barlett and James Steele are former editors at large for Time magazine, and now work for Vanity Fair.  The investigative journalism team has authored seven books including, “America: What Went Wrong?”  They’ve won two Pulitzer Prizes for newspaper reporting and two National Magazine Awards.  They began their collaborative work at the Philadelphia Inquirer in the early 1970s.

 

Watch the Program: http://www.booktv.org/Watch/13787/After+Words+Donald+Barlett+James+Steele+The+Betrayal+of+the+American+Dream+host+Juan+Williams+The+Hill.aspx

Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule with David Cobb

  By sherry | June 16, 2012 - 5:04 pm | David Cobb, Move to Amend, Video
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The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood and Demand Democracy!
Move to Amend Tucson with David Cobb
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church
4831 East 22nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85711

Creating Democracy and Challenging Corporate Rule with David Cobb

Fiery speaker and lifelong activist David Cobb is touring the country for Move to Amend, the national coalition of over 204,000 people and organizations whose goal is to amend the United States Constitution to end corporate rule and legalize democracy.

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRv-loc_hw

David Cobb Tucson Move to Amend Part 2 Questions and Answers 6.12.12.wmv Video is live at: http://youtu.be/tQxWhf-VjI0

Beyond Oil

  By sherry | June 16, 2012 - 3:45 pm | Video
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It’s Time to Move America Beyond Oil

Imagine a world with clean, abundant, affordable energy. One where climate disruption is a fading threat and American soldiers are never again deployed to defend oil fields. One where innovative green industries provide good jobs and supply 100 percent of our energy needs. Imagine a healthier America, with clean air and water, with pristine coasts and protected natural areas. A wealthier, more productive nation, whose leaders answer only to the citizens who elect them. This is America beyond oil.

A Video from Sierra Club: http://content.sierraclub.org/beyondoil/

‘Modern Capitalism Has Reached the End of Its Rope’

  By sherry | June 7, 2012 - 6:01 pm | Capitalism, Economy, Video
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Published on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by RT

There is barely a corner of the globe that has not been touched by the current financial meltdown. But a senior sociology scholar at Yale University thinks the crisis is far wider than the economic crash – it is capitalism itself which is collapsing.

Immanuel Wallerstein explained his theory to RT.

Watch the Video: http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/04

Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Lift the Payroll Tax Cap, Ensuring Full Social Security Funding for Nearly 75 Years

  By sherry | June 6, 2012 - 8:31 pm | Bernie Sanders, Payroll Tax, Social Security
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Friday, 26 August 2011 06:08
By Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress | Report

Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a featured speaker at the United Steel Workers 2011 conference in Las Vegas.

Sanders focused much of his speech on the Social Security system, blasting suggestions by Democrats and Republicans alike that, for example, we should adjust the cost of living adjustment to cut Social Security payments to working class Americans or raise the retirement age. “When [Social Security] was developed, 50 percent of seniors lived in poverty. Today, poverty among seniors is too high, but that number is ten percent. Social Security has done exactly what it was designed to do!” he thundered, defending the program. Watch it:

Today, Sanders announced that he will introduce legislation that would strengthen Social Security without cutting benefits to any of its beneficiaries. Sanders’ legislation would eliminate the income cap that currently exists in the payroll tax that does not tax income above $106,800:

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http://www.truth-out.org/bernie-sanders-introduces-bill-lift-payroll-tax-cap-ensuring-full-social-security-funding-nearly-7-0