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| Rebuild the Dream: Forget The Lies We Are Being Told About The Economy | |
| Van Jones lays out the three big lies we're being told--and what we're going to do about them--at the Rebuild the Dream launch in New York City on June 23. | |
| Date: 2011-06-25 07:38:59 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 796 - Votes: 6 - Rating: 3.34 | |
| If a Tree Falls: New Film on Daniel McGowan, Earth Liberation Front, Green Scare | |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 22 Jun 2011 DemocracyNow.org - A new documentary, "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," tells the story of environmental activist Daniel McGowan. Four years ago this month, McGowan was sentenced to a seven-year term for his role in two acts of politically motivated arson in 2001 to protest extensive logging in the Pacific Northwest?starting fires at a lumber company and an experimental tree farm in Oregon. The judge ruled he had committed an act of terrorism, even though no one was hurt in any of the actions. McGowan participated in the arsons as a member of the Earth Liberation Front but left the group after the second fire led him to become disillusioned. He was arrested years later after a key member of the Earth Liberation Front?himself facing the threat of lengthy jail time?turned government informant. McGowan ultimately reached a plea deal but refused to cooperate with the government's case. As a result, the government sought a "terrorism enhancement" to add extra time to his sentence. McGowan is currently jailed in a secretive prison unit known as Communication Management Units, or CMUs, in Marion, Illinois. Watch Part 2 of 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W91vhfvukI Democracy Now! airs an excaerpt from the film and speak with the film's director, Marshll Curry. They also interview Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was imprisoned at the same CMU as McGowan, and with Will Potter, a freelance reporter who writes about how the so-called "war on terror" affects civil liberties. | |
| Date: 2011-06-25 07:25:59 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 845 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Haiti: Leaked Cables Expose U.S. Suppression of Min. Wage, Election Doubts and Elite's Private Army | |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 24 Jun 2011 DemocracyNow.org - Drawing on almost 2,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti released by WikiLeaks, a partnership between The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly, Haiti Libert?, exposes new details on how Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi's worked with the United States to block an increase in the minimum wage in the hemisphere's poorest nation; how business owners and members of the country's elite used Haiti's police force as their own private army after the 2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and how the United States, the European Union and the United Nations supported Haiti's recent presidential and parliamentary elections, despite concerns over the exclusion of Haiti's largest opposition party ? Lavalas ? the party of Aristide. Democracy Now! interviews the reports' authors, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin and Ha?ti Libert? editor, Kim Ives. Watch Part 2 of 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhm06V0jRNo | |
| Date: 2011-06-25 07:23:42 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 822 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |
| New Yorkers celebrate passage of same-sex marriage law | |
| Uploaded by telegraphtv on 25 Jun 2011 A massive crowd celebrates the New York state approval of same-sex marriages at Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement in the United States. | |
| Date: 2011-06-25 01:31:31 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 778 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| DEBTOCRACY: Causes of Greece's debt crisis and solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media [full length documentary] | |
| For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. | |
| Date: 2011-06-24 23:22:23 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 1001 - Votes: 11 - Rating: 5 | |
| New Expose Reveals Nuclear Regulatory Commission Colluded with Industry to Weaken Safety Standards | |
| Three U.S. senators have called for a congressional probe on safety issues at the nation?s aging nuclear plants following a pair of new expos?s. In a special series called ?Aging Nukes,? the Associated Press revealed that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the nuclear power industry have been working in tandem to weaken safety standards to keep aging reactors within the rules. Just last year, the NRC weakened the safety margin for acceptable radiation damage to reactor vessels. The AP report also revealed radioactive tritium has leaked from 48 of the 65 U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard?sometimes at hundreds of times the limit. We speak with AP investigative journalist Jeff Donn. | |
| Date: 2011-06-24 08:34:54 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 815 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 | |
| Sen. Franken: Wildfires Are The Cost Of Climate Change | |
| 6/14/11: At a U.S. Senate hearing on the Southwest wildfires, US Forest Service chief Tom Tidwell testifies that climate change is causing the fired, and Sen. Al Franken explains to his colleagues that these fires are one of the costs of carbon pollution. | |
| Date: 2011-06-24 08:12:29 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 825 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum: 'There Is No Such Thing As Global Warming' | |
| 6/23/11: GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum tells Glenn Beck that "there is no such thing as global warming." | |
| Date: 2011-06-24 08:10:27 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 803 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Flash floods swamp parts of midwest U.S. | |
| Published on 24 Jun 2011 by itnnews See the devastation after heavy rainfall sweeps the states forcing a major evacuation. | |
| Date: 2011-06-24 08:07:14 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 811 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Van Jones Fights Back Against Fox News | |
| 22 June, 2011 MSNBC | |
| Date: 2011-06-24 07:56:39 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 774 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |