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| 10 NYC Homeless Activists Arrested at Encampment | |
| 10 NYC Homeless Activists Arrested at Encampment Ten homeless activists were arrested in New York last week after the organization Picture the Homeless occupied a vacant lot in Harlem owned by JPMorgan Chase to protest against a shortage of affordable housing in the city. Rev. Frank Morales: Were no longer believing in the Bloomberg administration five-year plan to end homelessness. Its been an abject failure. So were saying we are going seize the vacant land. Were going to seize the vacant apartments. Were going to take them in the interests of the people who need the housing. | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 780 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 4 | |
| PLO: History of a Revolution, featuring Robert Fisk | |
| In the third episode of this six-part series, Al Jazeera looks at the Lebanese civil war and the events that led to the PLO being driven out of Beirut after more than 10 years in Lebanon. | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 776 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 3.67 | |
| Possible Israeli strike on Iran is the lesser of two evils | |
| A potential Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear objects will, of course, destabilize the Middle East, but acquiring nuclear arms by Tehran would lead to a lot more trouble, says political analyst Mitchell Barak. | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
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| The People's Rally, in DC, at Malcolm X Park, for Single Payer (Part 1 of 3) | |
| On Sunday, July 26, 2009, in Malcolm X Park, in Washington, DC, "The People's Rally" for a Single Payer Healthcare system was held. It featured a "Speak Out" by the uninsured and the underinsured; and by patients, doctors, nurses, political and community leaders. This video features the Rev. Graylan Ellis-Hagler and activist Donna Smith (SICK0). Mikuak Rai served as the moderator of the program. The lively event was sponsored and supported by the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer, Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO, Healthcare Now, and the Spirit of Truth Foundation. For background on Single Payer, see: http://www.healthcare-now.org and http://singlepayeraction.org and http://md.pnhp.org and http://www.prosperityagenda.us/ In the House of Representatives, Single Payer advocates are pushing HR 676; and in the U.S. Senate--S 703. | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 810 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| PT 1-5 The Great American Bubble Machine | |
| Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
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| GRITtv: Matt Taibbi & Michael Lux: Goldman's Coup | |
| Grit TV with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 761 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 4.5 | |
| The Nation's Washington, D.C. Correspondent, John Nichols: Will Unemployment Sink the Obama Agenda? | |
| The Nation's Washington, D.C. Correspondent, John Nichols, explains how the rising rates of unemployment could imperil The Obama Presidency. Nichols looks at the political risks of joblessness, and discusses the need for a second stimulus. | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 739 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 4.5 | |
| Max Keiser: Treasury Secretary Geitner is a banker's banker | |
| Paulson threatens Congress with big gun: causes crash at WAMU! Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs & Treasury Sec under Bush, | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 815 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| Professor Elizabeth Warren speaks about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency | |
| Professor Elizabeth Warren explains why America needs a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. July 16, 2009. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 806 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 3.34 | |
| Legislating Misinformation: Conservative Media Making Up Details Of Health Reform Bill | |
| http://mediamatters.org/research/200907170005 Conservative media run with false IBD claim that health bill outlaws private coverage. | |
| Date: 27 July 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
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