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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

Matt Taibbi on DemocracyNow! 2/22/11. 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)

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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)

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)

Cold, hard facts of global warming. MSNBC. 11/19/09. Rapid warming the embedded story in Greenland's ice.

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The Case Against Shell: 'The Hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa Showed the True Cost of Oil' (8:33)

n May 2009, multinational oil giant Shell will stand trial in United States federal court to answer to charges that it conspired in human rights abuses including murder in Nigeria in the 1990s. This mini-documentary tells the story of the rise of an inspiring and nonviolent movement for human rights and environmental justice, and the lengths Shell was willing to go to stop it. For more information, visit: The Case Against Shell

This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)

On Thin Ice. NOW. 4/17/09. Impacts of global warming focusing on the loss of glaciers and the impacts on water supply.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc.

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers Interviews the I.F. Stone Award Winners. The first "Izzies," are awarded to Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman. Excellent discussion of the media and the role of journalism. approx 10 minutes

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (approx 20 minutes)

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

The American Form of Government. Author and date unknown. Excellent 10 minute discussion of various forms of government.

The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org

Rural Poverty and Gas in America. eweining YouTube. 12/01/2007

U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008.

Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008,