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Newswire Interview with Arun Gupta
The Occupy Wall Street protests have spread across the country like wildfire. Hundreds of people are camping out across most major cities to show their support for the 99 percent of Americans who are fed up with the other 1 percent that rules the country. To spread the message, a band of journalists joined together to create the Occupied Wall Street Journal, a printed publication that showcases the voices of demonstrators. Among the founders of that publication is Arun Gupta, who is also editor of The Indypendent newspaper and who has been reporting on the demonstrations since they began nearly a month ago.
Email this pageGRITtv: Militarizing Haiti: The Shock Doctrine at Work?
With Haiti's government "all but invisible" and its repressive police forces "devastated," popular organizations were starting to fill the void. But the Western powers rushing in want to rebuild Haiti on a foundation of sweatshops, agro-exports and tourism. So wrote Arun Gupta in the latest issue of the Indypendent, on the way neoliberal "reforms" are being pushed Haiti's way. Gupta joins guest host Esther Armah in the studio, along with Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, who just returned from Haiti, to talk about the rebuilding effort underway and how people in the U.S. can help make sure Haiti is rebuilt for the Haitian people.
GRITtv: A Recipe For Disaster: Industrial Agriculture, Swine Flu, and Global Warming
"A threat of unknown magnitude," some have called it. The LA Times writes that it could kill hundreds over the next two years. What is it? Swine flu. How did we get here and what are the connections between industrial agriculture, global warming, and what many think could be a deadly flu epidemic? Arun Gupta, an editor at the Indypendent and the author most recently of Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist at the Natural Resource Defense Council?s Global Warming and Health Project, and Michael Greger, Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States and author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching discuss the looming threats of avian and swine flu, global warming, and what we can do to change our system of industrial agriculture.
GRITtv: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger
In the United States, the gap between rich and poor has grown exponentially in recent years. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the number of Americans who do not earn enough to feed themselves and their families. It is likely that some 50 to 60 million Americans, or one in five, are hungry. How is it possible in the land of plenty? And what does the recession reveal about America?s social safety net? Sasha Abramsky, a senior fellow at Demos and the author of Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It, Aubretia Edick, a longtime Wal-Mart employee, Franceska Dillella, a mother of three whose struggle to navigate New York?s homeless shelters with her three children was recently profiled in the Indypendent, Mary Brosnahan, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless on why the subject of hunger and homelessness has received so little attention.
