Social Watch Fights To Put Peoples Needs Before Capital
at the G-20 and the UN
with
. Jana Silverman, Coordinator of Campaigns of Social Watch,
an NGO network monitoring poverty eradication & gender
equality
. Roberto Bissio, Coordinator of Social Watch & Exec. Dir.,
Third World Institute, Uruguay
. Amitabh Behar, Co-Convenor Social Watch, India

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The G-20 countries are the architects of the global economic crisis.
While they held their elite and exclusionary sessions there were
protests and instructional forums by international representatives
of the people suffering the policies and practices of the G-20. One
such organization in protest is Social Watch who unveiled their 2009
Report, People First. Social Watch is also in the United States to
lobby the attendees of the UN General Assembly meeting to
respond to the economic crisis of developing and the poorest
countries.

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Economic Recovery Leaves Workers Behind?
with
. Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute
. Meizhu Lui, Dir., Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
Insight Center for Community & Economic Development
. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Dir., National Council of Negro
Women’s Research, Public Policy & Information Center

They say the economy may be bouncing back – but not for the
workers. Unemployment reestablished its relentless upward
climb in August, with the “official rate” rising to 9.7% with
significantly higher levels for people of color & young workers.
Unemployment, much of it long term, will likely pass 10% by the
end of the year and remain elevated for years. Further, for those
that have jobs, wage growth slowed dramatically plus income
and assets inequality is getting worse. Predictably, poverty
is increasing for the unemployed and even workers with jobs.

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Real Health Care Reform
With
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Cleveland, Ohio

Representative Kucinich is a champion HR 676 the single payer
bill which constitutes real reform which is not a placebo but the
real curative for what ails our health care system. He dissects the
current health care debate talking about the ever shrinking public
option, the role of the insurance companies, the prospects for a
debate on single payer in Congress, his amendment for choice
of single payer by the States and the continuing struggle for real
health care reform.

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Katrina: Four Years & Counting & Still Underwater
with
Chris Kromm, Ex. Dir. Institute for Southern Studies

Whole Foods’ Fans Can’t Digest Health Care Op-Ed
with
. Jon Weissman, Coordinator, Western Mass. Jobs with Justice
. Tom Siracuse, Chair of the Manhattan West Side Local, Green Party

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Katrina: Four Years & Counting & Still Underwater
with
Chris Kromm, Ex. Dir. Institute for Southern Studies

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still waiting for Washington to show leadership in the Katrina recovery. Four years after the storm, one out of three New Orleans addresses are still unoccupied. Now, a special anniversary report grades the Obama administration on Gulf Coast recovery.
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Whole Foods’ Fans Can’t Digest Health Care Op-Ed
with
. Jon Weissman, Coordinator, Western Mass. Jobs with Justice
. Tom Siracuse, Chair of the West Side Local, Green Party

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey can’t digest health care reform and protesters can’t stomach his position. The jolly green giant’s part-time employees receive no health benefits and full-time employees are forced into high-deductible insurance plans. Not so jolly after all, Mackey compares efforts to unionizing his stores to "having herpes." While he says get back protestors fight back.


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NAACP Passes Resolution for Mumia and other prisoners
with
Brother Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, President, Baltimore NAACP

Emmett Till: The Opera
with
. Charles Lloyd, Jr. composer, tenor
. Robert Mack as Emmett
. soprano Diana Solomon-Glover as Mamie
. bass Kevin Maynor as the funeral director

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NAACP Passes Resolution for Mumia and other prisoners
with
Brother Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, President, Baltimore
NAACP

A new resolution on Mumia Abu-Jamal , which also included Troy Davis,
Marshall Eddie Conway, and Reggie Clemons, was passed at the
NAACP convention as an emergency resolution. It was addressed to
Attorney General Eric Holder and called on him to review these cases!
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Emmett Till: The Opera
with . Charles Lloyd, Jr. composer, tenor
. Robert Mack as Emmett
. soprano Diana Solomon-Glover as Mamie
. bass Kevin Maynor as the funeral director

Emmett Till the opera commemorating the horrific beating and murder
of the boy child, Emmett Till in Money Miss. August 28 1955. This story
scars deep in the hearts of black America. This murder and the story
behind it is now part of American culture. Trilogy: An Opera Company
brings this tragic American story to us with the hope of stimulating new
and helpful discussions about a still-divided America.

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Constitution On Ice: Immigration Home Raids
with
Peter Markowitz, Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic

How much security did $1 trillion buy?
Part 6 of the ongoing series
Rethink Afghanistan
by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films

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Constitution On Ice: Immigration Home Raids
with
Peter Markowitz, Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic

A cowboy mentality and racial profiling prevailed as armed federal immigration agents illegally stormed into homes of Latinos in New York and New Jersey in hundreds of predawn raids and violated their own agency rules as well as the Constitution, according to the newly released study by the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.
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How much security did $1 trillion buy?
Part 6 of the ongoing series Rethink Afghanistan
by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films

The war in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood that American civilians will be killed in a future terrorist attack. three former high-ranking CIA agents on the record to explain why, there is no “victory” to be won in Afghanistan

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