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Democracy Now! Friday, August 5, 2011
In one of the largest meat recalls in U.S. history, this week the food giant Cargill ordered the recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey. We speak with Patty Lovera, assistant director of the food safety group, Food & Water Watch. Hundreds of state legislators from all 50 states have gathered in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC. We go to New Orleans to speak with Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy. Last month, her organization released 800 model bills approved by companies and lawmakers at recent ALEC meetings. We speak with Mike Elk, contributing labor reporter at The Nation magazine. He says ALEC and private prison companies "put a mass amount of people in jail, and then they created a situation where they could exploit that." Federal prosecutors in New Orleans have just finished presenting their case against police officers involved in the infamous Danziger Bridge shooting in the days after Hurricane Katrina. We are joined in New Orleans by independent journalist Jordan Flaherty, who has been in the courtroom following the case, and Norris Henderson, a longtime community organizer and former co-director of Safe Streets/Strong Communities, a group that played a key role in helping the families of the victims in this case come forward to seek justice. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
Email this page"Democracy Now!": Remembering Hurricane Katrina on its Fifth Anniversary
Marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Harry Shearer makes the case in his new documentary "The Big Uneasy" that Katrina was an unnatural disaster; we revisit 2005 footage in "Remembering Hurricane Katrina: Voices from the Storm"; Jordan Flaherty and Tracie Washington talk about the fight to save New Orleans and their new book; displaced New Orleans poet Sunni Patterson says, "I will be a "cultural ambassador to bring a light to every injustice". "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: BP Exploiting Workers in the Gulf
Hundreds of workers in the Gulf Coast cleaning up BP's oil disaster have reported symptoms of nausea, vomiting, nose bleeds, and headaches, but those almost all have been heat related, according to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jordan Barab. So reported Michael Whitney for FireDogLake, who has been following the struggle of workers and Gulf Coast natives affected by the disaster. Whitney joins us along with Jordan Flaherty, via Skype from Louisiana, to discuss the ongoing struggle of fishermen and the other local communities that make their living and run their lives around the water in the Gulf.
GRITtv: July 8 2010
Workers are under assault, says Bill Fletcher, Jr., and the labor movement needs to fight back. One of the best ways to do this, he suggests, is for labor to start organizing the unemployed as well as supporting their membership. Meanwhile, Fletcher notes, 15 tea partiers get together and it makes national news, while labor's struggles are marginalized or ignored. There's plenty to fight for, though--more stimulus, jobs for those who don't have them and fair wages for those who do, better attention by the leaders to their base, and for the administration to keep its promises. Fletcher joins us via Skype from Washington, D.C. to discuss. Hundreds of workers in the Gulf Coast cleaning up BP’s oil disaster have reported symptoms of nausea, vomiting, nose bleeds, and headaches, but those “almost all have been heat related,” according to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jordan Barab. So reported Michael Whitney for FireDogLake, who has been following the struggle of workers and Gulf Coast natives affected by the disaster. Whitney joins us along with Jordan Flaherty, via Skype from Louisiana, to discuss the ongoing struggle of fishermen and the other local communities that make their living and run their lives around the water in the Gulf. Everyone remembers an urban legend or two from childhood, those stories that warned kids away from certain parts of down, different buildings, that creepy guy who lives down the street. But two filmmakers from Staten Island discovered there was more to the urban legend that they grew up with than just a spooky story. Cropsey is the story of their return to their childhood nightmares to find out the truth behind them. Finally, Laura noticed that the media was missing some women when discussing the "year of the woman" in politics: the women of organized labor.
GRITtv: Gaza Under Siege
Filmmakers Lily Keber and Jordan Flaherty set out to see for themselves what happened in Gaza after the Israeli invasion in January of this year. Nine months later, rebuilding has barely begun and the Israeli blockade continues. In Gaza Under Siege they speak to the people of Gaza about what they need to rebuild their towns and cities.
GRITtv: September 1, 2009
August was a dark month, so to speak, for advocates of healthcare reform—public option or single payer. Where were the activists? And what’s the message?
Marshall Ganz, a long time organizer and lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Maggie Mahar, the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, and Nina Agrawal, Director of Community Outreach for National Physicians Alliance in NY on what needs to be done to win the healthcare war.
