Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011.
Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes
"Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world.
To support their families, millions of children are employed to work, many of them in hazardous conditions.
Last year, the government came up with an ambitious plan to stop all children under 14 working by 2015.
It is a staggering task, when poor families have relied on child labour for generations.
Previous efforts to stop child labour have backfired. When the US introduced the Child Labor Deterrence Act in 1993, an estimated 50,000 Bangladeshi children lost their garment industry jobs overnight, leaving many to resort to more hazardous and exploitative jobs such as stone-crushing, street hustling and prostitution.
But social commentators claim that there are cultural reasons for widespread child labour in Bangladesh - including the belief it will train young people for work as adults and stop them becoming involved in crime.
On this edition of 101 East, we look at how Bangladesh is tackling the issue of child labour."
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions (13 minutes) References articles at Tax.com particlularly Breaking News: Tax Revenues Plummeted
Continue reading Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?.
Noam Chomsky on DemocracyNow 2/17/2011. "Democracy Uprising" in the U.S.A.?: Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin's Resistance to Assault on Public Sector, the Obama-Sanctioned Crackdown on Activists, and the Distorted Legacy of Ronald Reagan (36.26)
Transcript in extended entry
Continue reading Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin's Resistance.
Rowan Wolf is interviewed by Jania Donaldson from Peak Moment TV of the social effects of peak oil. Aug.4, 2007. 28 minutes
Sam Richards, a renowned sociologist explores what sociology is about - empathy - and combines that with the current issue of the perception of the United States in the Middle East. Also available on YouTube TEDxPSU - Sam Richards - A Radical Experiment in Empathy
Senator Sanders speaking in the chamber on the economy on March 3, 2009. Found on Youtube. Originally recorded from CSPAN2. (13:09)
This video discusses peak oil. It was created and aired by the Australian Broadcast Company for their program Catalyst on 11/24/2005. The original video is here. (12:49)
This clip is taken from a panel discussion from the New School as broadcast on FORA.tv. It was broadcast 4/02/2008. (Time: approximately 4:00)
This clip is taken from a panel discussion from the New School as broadcast on FORA.tv. It was broadcast 4/02/2008. (Time: 4:21)
The videos in this entry are from the NOW on PBS on November 12, 2009. The video is available in full at PBS. Elizabeth Warren (Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP) is interviewed.
Part 1 (9:35)
Part 2 (8:31)
Part 3 (6:02)
This report was on OPB's Newshour on 11/13/08, and explores the problems of the massive amount of plastic caught in the North Pacific Gyre. (Time: 9:30)
Brave Nation is a series that focuses on social change via the activism of imdividuals and social movements. This is the first episode in the series and features Carl Pope and Van Jones on the issues of environmentalism, the people's media, civil rights and the economy. (Time: 29:30)
This is a clip from the Democracy Now March 3, 2010 program regarding "vulture capitalism" and a BBC documentary done by Greg Palast - includes interview with Palast. Vulture capitalism refers to investment companies (almost universally based in the United States) which purchase debt of poor nations for pennies on the dollar, and then collect at double or triple that amount.
