December 21, 2007 at 12:30 pm
· Filed under Activism, Economy, Hurricane Katrina
The New Orleans City Council has unanimously voted to move ahead with the demolition of 4,500 units of public housing. Under the plan, the city’s four largest public housing developments will be razed and replaced with mixed-income housing. Hundreds of people were turned away from the City Council meeting. Police shot protesters with pepper spray and tasers. We go to New Orleans to speak with two local community activists and a former SWAT commander. [includes rush transcript]
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December 1, 2007 at 8:15 pm
· Filed under Activism, Politics, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Rights and Liberties, Women
Naomi Wolf and Amy Goodman Discuss “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot” where Naomi Wolf outlines what she sees as the ten steps to shut down a democratic society. She argues the Bush administration has already implemented many of these steps.
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November 24, 2007 at 11:37 pm
· Filed under Economy
As the holiday shopping frenzy begins, one documentary explores the problems of mass consumerism and the exploited foreign labor it depends on.
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