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ENVIRONMENT: “The Environment and the Economy” ☮
CAPITALISM: “The Truth About The Parasites In A Capitalist Society”
h/t: Being Liberal
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: “Richard Wolff on Fighting for Economic Justice and Fair Wages” / Bill Moyers
h/t: Bill Moyers.com
COMMUNITY ACTIVISM: Bill Moyers / “How Citizen Power Can Save a Library”
In this web-exclusive Bill Moyers Essay, Bill professes his lifelong love for libraries and their strong cultural value, and points to a crisis in public library funding across the country. But he also shares a unique and controversial community effort in Troy, Michigan that kept its library from becoming a political casualty, and serves as “a reminder of what can happen when we act together.”
Watch the full video below that explains how the Tea Party put the library in jeopardy, and how the town — with the help ad agency Leo Burnett — successfully fought back.
CORPORATE CAPITALISM: Bill Moyers / Jamie Dimon’s ‘Family Reunion’ With the Senate Banking Committee
In a preview of this weekend’s Moyers & Company, I talk with What’s the Matter With Kansas? author Thomas Frank about the friendly faces greeting Jamie Dimon when he appeared before the Senate Banking Committee this morning. Seven members of the committee were big recipients of money from the megabank.
Frank describes the revolving door of employment between government and corporate America, especially when it comes to Congressional staffers-turned-lobbyists.
“Staffers know they could drop what they’re doing and go work for a lobby firm and make fantastic money… They want to please these companies — even when they don’t work for those companies – because that’s their future employer and everybody knows it.”
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ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: Joseph Stiglitz / “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future”
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- Joseph Stiglitz on “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future” (democracynow.org)
- Joseph Stiglitz Explains the Price of Inequality (wnyc.org)
- Joseph Stiglitz: The Middle Class Has Been Screwed Over The Last Decade (businessinsider.com)
What Have We Gained (And Lost) In The Two Years Since Obamacare Was Enacted?
Source: MoveOn.org
Report: American Corporations Are Adding More Jobs Overseas Than They Are At Home
With the nation’s unemployment rate still above eight percent, millions of Americans are looking for work, and the country’s biggest corporations are hiring. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, however, many of those corporations are adding jobs overseas at a faster pace than they are at home. Even worse, others are cutting their domestic workforces while adding jobs in other countries at a rapid pace.
Obamacare
Source: MoveOn.org
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