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Corporate Personhood Backlash: Big Picture 01/05/12
Despite massive corporate spending in the Iowa primaries, the fight against corporate influence in politics continues. Mark Hayes from Public Citizen's Democracy is for People, joins Thom to talk about the New York City, City Council's resolution to take back democracy from corporations and return it to the people.
Email this pageMoney, Politics, Iowa DN! 01/03/12
More than 12.5 million dollars will be spent on the election in Iowa; 2/3rd's of which by super pacs which allow individuals and corporations to drop unlimited amounts of money to a campaign. The occupy movement is protesting in Iowa to get money out of politics.
GRITtv: Fighting Foreclosures: It Starts On Wall Street
Wall Street is set to award $143 billion--with a B--in bonuses this year, while foreclosures continue unabated (and often undocumented) around the country. Protests are continuing around the country too, though, and Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter notes that when her family couldn't get a regulator to examine her family's foreclosure, "What we went to was a grassroots organization." Desiree joins us, along with Amanda Devecka-Rinear of National People's Action, to fill us in on yesterday's protest on Wall Street, actions around the country, and the process of building a movement to fight Wall Street corruption and help people remain in their homes.
GRITtv: Generation Obama: Where Are They Now?
After years and years of listening to pundits bemoan the lack of engagement among America's youth, the kids finally came out for Barack Obama. Many of the volunteers and organizers that put Obama in the White House were young and working on a political campaign for the first time. From the Iowa caucuses to Nov. 4, a new generation worked day and night to change their country. A year later, we round up a few of them and ask whether they're still involved. Lana Wilson, founder of Obamaerobics, Mike Jones, NYU sophomore and Obama 2008 campaign volunteer, and Ebonie Johnson Cooper, campaign organizer in Ohio and Pennsylvania, join Elizabeth Mendez-Berry, who wrote about the Obama youth organizers and what they're up to now for an upcoming issue of The Nation, to talk about what they've done and how Obama changed their generation.
GRITtv: The F Word: CEOs Behind Bars: Can it Happen Here?
Bernie Madoff has come and gone, but the architects of Wall Street's financial crimes are mostly alive and well, and above the law it seems. A year on, the question still lingers: why aren't more of those who lied -- about their assets, their intentions and their cash -- in jail? The idea that American capitalism is somehow tame or governed by the rule of law is a myth.
