SouceCode - Corporations

Private Prison Update

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:21:24 -0700

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Corruption and collusion are nothing new for private prisons, but with the "immigration scare" boosts from the Department of Homeland Security, the stakes are getting higher. SourceCode looks inside the private prison business - at the the buys offs and backroom deals that deliver profit for a few, and pain for many. Policy analyst Judith Greene, PCI Field Organizer Frank Smith, and legislators Buffie Mcfayden and Bob Ingles give you the Download.

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Silja Talvi with the Sentencing Project

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:45:55 -0700

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There is a growing bi-partisan movement to repeal the unfair and racist mandatory sentencing guidelines that have filled U.S. prisons to overflowing, creating a market in bodies-in-beds that pays big for private prison corporations. Join In These Times reporter Silja Talvi and Michael Mauer from The Sentencing Project to find out more.

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Grassroots Success in Memphis

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:57:05 -0600

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Come to Memphis, where a remarkable collaboration between students, churches, schools and labor, organized by Grassroots Leadership, kept the Corrections Corporation of America from bringing a private prison to town. This project models how you can do the same in your neighborhood.

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Come to Memphis, where a remarkable collaboration between students, churches, schools, and labor, organized by Grassroots Leadership, kept the Corrections Corporation of America from bringing a private prison to town. This project is a model of what you can do in your own neighborhood.

Producer/Author:
Malia Bruker

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Private Prisons: Commerce in Souls

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:37:18 -0700

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Corruption and collusion are nothing new for private prisons, but back-room boosts from the Department of Homeland Security, are raising the stakes. SourceCode looks inside the private prison boom, and at the growing opposition to this state-administered slavery. In These Times reporter Silja Talvi talks with The Sentencing Project, and Grassroots Leadership shares their success story in Memphis. Plus, a multi-media community arts project where former inmates create moving images while they tell their stories.

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El Inmigrante

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:59:51 -0600

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EL INMIGRANTE is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. Check out this short excerpt below and visit www.elinmigrantemovie.com for more info.

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Students unite in LA

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:00:38 -0600

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As the immigrant community stands up in the streets for their rights, the youth of the community is following the call and taking the lead on marches of their own. Daffodil Altan of New America Media reports on the recent high school walkouts in LA.

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Immigration Emergency?

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:59:15 -0600

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Politicians across the country are calling for an "immigration emergency." And the Department of Homeland Security is ready to round people up - the US has retrofitted train stations to serve as detention camps, and Halliburton subsidiary KBR is ready to set up 'temporary' detention facilities. Their plan to detect, detain and deport immigrants is shocking. joe richey reports.

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Politicians across the country are calling for an "immigration emergency." But what does it mean, and what will happen if one is declared?

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The Watchdogs vs. CEMEX

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:51:06 -0600

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What would you do if a toxic factory set up shop in your backyard? This group of local activists is taking on the multinational company CEMEX.

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What do you do when an international conglomerate sets up shop in your backyard, pours pollutants into the air and water, and buys its way out of any environmental fines in the pursuit of profit? You don�t ignore it and hope it�ll go away, and you don�t fool yourself that the struggle will be easy. Come to Lyons, Colorado, where, despite a lack of official support, one group of neighbors is taking on a money-making factory.

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Natural Capital w/ Hunter Lovins

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:52:02 -0600

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Natural Capitalism is an economic theory that claims to take �everything valuable into account,� not just the bottom line. SourceCode's Tom Henwood talks to alternative economist Hunter Lovins about how the way we have created wealth since the Industrial Revolution, no longer applies�.

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Hunter Lovins on �natural capitalism��.an economy that attempts to take everything of value into account � including human resources and living systems.

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Latin America's Economic revolution

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:52:43 -0600

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SourceCode brings you an exclusive report from the recent World Social Forum in Venezuela, where indigenous people are fighting international coal companies, and where Chavez is promising to shift the oil wealth to the people�..

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Hugo Chavez, Medea Benjamin, and the Venezuelan attendees of the World Social Forum in Caracas. Topic: economics.

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Capitalism vs Environment

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:58:57 -0700

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Is an environmentally sustainable economy, possible? Hear from Hunter Lovins on �natural capitalism��.an economy that attempts to take everything of value into account, including human resources and living systems.
Then, what would you do if a toxic factory set up shop in your backyard? One group of local activists is taking on the multinational company CEMEX.
Artist Roxy Paine and critic John Yao present an installation piece addressing industry�s devastating impact on land
And first, an exclusive report from the recent World Social Forum in Venezuela where indigenous people are fighting international coal companies, and where Chavez is promising to shift the oil wealth to the people�..

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Hurwitz vs. the Trees

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:30:32 -0700

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Bay Area Headwaters Coalition fights against Charles Hurwitz, who took savings and loan cash and bought up the redwoods. Find out how you can help!

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State of the Oceans

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:25:08 -0600

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SourceCode collaborates with Mother Jones Magazine for a special episode on the State of the Oceans. Join Mike Robbins for a look at how the fishing industry, which regulates itself, is destroying the fisheries and endangering our food supply. Dr. Pauly on the need to protect the ocean, with a park system. And Paul Watson flies the Jolly Roger as he rams Japanese whalers and takes on seal hunters in an effort to save the ocean's wildlife. Plus, a gripping video from Britain's Environmental Justice Foundation, from a coastal village in Africa terrorized by illegal fishing corporations.

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Get Pombo Out Now

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:02:39 -0600

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Richard Pombo is at the top of many groups' lists.....as the 21st century's most dangerous enemy of the environment. Not only is he pro-enterprise at the cost of the environment, he's pro-business at the expense of the people in his own district. Kelpie Wilson wants you to be able to put a face to the man who is single-handedly trying to dismantle the environmental protections that took 30 years to put in place.

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Enemies of the Environment

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:59:26 -0600

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Three pro-enterprise men - a politician, a crooked businessman, and a radical right-winger, are waging the most damaging war against the environment in US history. Meet the writer of the worst anti-environmental legislation Richard Pombo; and Charles Hurwitz, who is trying to make a quick buck on the last of the ancient redwoods, and who used profits from the S & L scandal to buy up the trees; and Ron Arnold, father of the Wise Use movement, who thinks that property is a civil right.
SourceCode partners with www.truthout.org on the Pombo story - visit their site and read Kelpie Wilson's in-depth coverage!

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Climate Change: Forget the Feds

Fri, 26 May 2006 15:24:35 -0600

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What do you do when the top level leaders in your Country refuse to comply with international agreements about global warming? You make them irrelevant and work locally. This episode, meet the Mayors, who are making sure their cities meet or beat Kyoto greenhouse gas emmission reductions. Hear from Daphne Wysham about the hidden victims of carbon trading (which we just found out is managed by the World Bank. go figure). Find out what the international youth movement is doing about climate change. And travel to the Arctic with the Cape Farewell artists and scientists.

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Activist Nation: Halliburton Watch

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:59:28 -0700

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Halliburton Watch is working to stop the giant contractor

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Halliburton has repeatedly been awarded no-bid contracts by the Bush administration, despite their horrible track record from past work. Halliburton Watch is working to stop this kind of corporate cronyism.

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Dangerous Ideas: Privatization of Military

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:52:27 -0700

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Ari Berman of The Nation with Deborah Avant of George Washington University.

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Deborah Avant is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for Global and International Studies at George Washington University. She is also a leading author on privatization of miliary forces.

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Download: Who profits from war?

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:54:22 -0700

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Pratap Chatterjee and Bunny Greenhouse on private companies involved in the war in Iraq.

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Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch outlines the corporate presence in Iraq and former Army Corps of Engineers official Bunny Greenhouse explains why she blew the whistle on no-bid contracts.

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BuzzFlash: Proxy War

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:20:13 -0700

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Scott Vogel on private security companies.

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Download: Where Are Your Rights?

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:15:05 -0700

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Jim Hightower on Corporate Personhood; Richard Grossman on eroding civil liberties; Rachel Meerapol from the Center for Constitutional Rights; and meet John graham, who found himself on a terrorist no fly list with no way out.

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Help stop war profiteering!

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:14:26 -0700

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Sick of war profiteering? Find out what you can do!

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Think that one person can't make a difference? Check out halliburtonwatch.org to see how Charlie Cray is taking on Halliburton.

CorpWatch has some of the most in-depth coverage and analysis of the corporate presence in Iraq, as well as info on corporations around the world. Check them out at corpwatch.org.

Whistleblowers like Bunnatine Greenhouse are essential to holding companies, governments and administrations accountable for their mistakes. Find out more about employees who have risked their jobs and reputations at The National Whistleblower Center's website.

Help secure human rights!

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:06:03 -0700

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secure human rights and civil liberties!

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POCLAD is a collaboration of nine writers, educators, activists, former elected officials, directors of environmental, labor and human rights organizations, union organizers, and researchers scattered around the country. They work with politically active citizens, historians, lawyers, and others to explore the historical relationships between corporations and citizens, why citizen resistance has not curbed corporate power, and what we can do to change this.

National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author, Jim Hightower calls himself America's number one populist. He has spent has spent the last three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. Check out his latest commentary at jimhightower.com

Stop Water Privatization!

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:07:52 -0700

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Fight Privatization of Water!

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Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization created to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. Public Citizen created the Water for All Campaign to protecting water as a common resource, stopping water privatization and bulk water sales, and defending access to clean and affordable water around the world. However, the Water for All Campaign has recently made the move to be housed under the newly formed Food and Water Watch consumer advocacy organization.

Rights/Exception - sc205

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:41:32 -0700

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Since 9/11 the bush administration has created a State of Exception, where the Constition and human rights are being suspended "in order to save them". Jim Hightower, Richard Grossman - activist and author, Rachel Meerapol from the Center for Constitional Rights talk about rights; meet John Graham who found himself on a terrorist list; the Ella Baker Center; Bernie Sanders.

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Buzzflash: Election Fraud

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:35:34 -0700

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From our friends at Buzzflash - commentary both comedic and deadly accurate.

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Stealing Elections Via Software

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:55:58 -0700

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Blogger Brad Friedman interviews Clint Curtis. Clint has testified and taken polygraphs to support his story that Tom Feeney had him write code to rip off the florida electorate.

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Download: Election Fraud

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:26:16 -0700

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Update on 2004 Voting Fraud Cases. Hear from Sherole Eaton, election official in 2004 in Hocking County Ohio, she blew the whistle on a Triad employee who dismantled a voting machine before the recount; also New Mexico citizens who's electronic votes disappeared before their eyes and who are still sueing to get their votes to count.

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Voting Fraud = No Democracy. Here's what's up with last election's most controversial lawsuits. Native people and hispanics whose votes did not count; democratic counties that mysteriously went republican; and voting machine employees blatantly manipulating computers before election results were tabulated. This should shock you, and cause you to call your local election officials to demand a verifiable voting process in your town.

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Election Fraud: sc210

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:21:36 -0700

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How many rigged elections will we stand for? SourceCode brings you the latest information from Ohio and New Mexico, where whistleblowers from inside the election business are hoping to win lawsuits....to guarantee a verifiable and fair election process in 06. Don't miss Sherole Eaton's story - she saw the official from Triad dismantle a computerized voting machine before the results were counted. And software designer Clint Curtis took a polygraph to back up his story that he was asked to write code to steal elections without a trace. Blogger Brad Friedman interviews him. Blackfire rocks out to get Native People voting, and BuzzFlash has (great) commentary.

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Download: Justice, Bound

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:51:20 -0600

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American judges refusing to hear cases that could keep them from being elected? Justice is becoming a popularity contest. Hear from Judge D'Army Bailey on the recusals in Tennessee, where judges are turning teens away. Find out what this means to you; Justice At Stake shows how commercial ads are perverting the judicial selection process.

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Proxy War - sc209

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:21:17 -0700

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When war-fighters are company men, can the government win a war? Bunnatine Greenhouse blows the whistle on Army Contracting procedures; Pratap Chaterjee on corporate abuse of international workers in this war; Halliburon Watch tells what you can do; Andrea Gibson performs a piece on a different proxy war.

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Justice for Whom?: sc208

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:20:59 -0700

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Justice for Sale: when private interest groups pressure judges to rule according to popular sentiment, by hiding behind controversial subjects like abortion, Americans can't get their day in court. Come to Tennessee where judges are refusing to hear unpopular parental notification cases, and turning teens away.

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Art of Resistance: Ed Sanders

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:06:37 -0700

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Ed Sanders Video Essay on Water Privatization

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Ed Sanders, founder of the Fugs, inveterate Investigative Poet and long time political activist has something to say about the privatization of water.

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Activist Nation: Public Citizen

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:07:31 -0700

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Social justice group Public Citizen investigates water management abuse by Suez in Bolivia.

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Dangerous Ideas: Bottled Water

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:05:36 -0700

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Tony Clarke on Bottled Water

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It's not safer, cleaner or better for you. How much of a rip-off is bottled water, and how harmful is the business itself? Tony Clarke wrings out the water bottlers.

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Download: Water Wars

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:11:45 -0700

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Water Wars: Greed vs. Need

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Come with SourceCode to the frontlines of the Water Wars: from India to Bolivia to Detroit, Michigan. In this segment, it's greed vs. need. Dr. Vandana Shiva lays out the connection between world bank loans to national governments and the giveaway of the commons.

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Want the truth? Find out how!

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:06:30 -0700

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Get involved HERE!

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Read every magazine, newspaper and blog that you can. Visit truthout.org, buzzflash.com, slate.com, alternet.org, www.commondreams.org, www.gnn.tv, www.zmag.org. Read The Nation, The Progressive, and Mother Jones. Get good intelligence, develop your appetite for information. Send us money so we can keep making our show. Talk about issues.

Greed/Water - sc204

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:22:36 -0700

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Big business is turning off the tap....the global corporate/government effort to privatize water is causing suffering and violence around the world. Join Vandana Shiva, Tony Clarke, Maude Barlow, and activist group Public Citizen as they report from India, Bolivia, Canada....and neighborhoods like yours.

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Packaging/Truth: sc203

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:22:16 -0700

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Are we going to let them define reality for us? SourceCode looks at reality construction: John Nichols from the Nation interviews Russ Feingold, Tom Hayden and Robert Greenwald; Jerry Landay brings you the right's strategy to take over media, higher ed, and social consciousness in the Powell Memo; Activist group Free Press on the struggle to keep the Internet public - and what you can do; and inside the Howl Festival on the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's revolutionary poem.

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Activist Nation: United for Fair Economy

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:24:10 -0600

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Join United for Fair Economy in the fight against UNfair trade agreements like CAFTA.

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Dangerous Ideas: Liza Featherstone on Wal-Mart

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:03:45 -0600

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Liza Featherstone talks with Tracy Stefl of Wal-Mart Watch and Barbara Briggs of the National Labor Committee about organizing the largest employer in the world.

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Download: Labor

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:23:38 -0600

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Update on condition of workers under global Empire, from Bangalore call centers to Imokalee Florida forced labor camps.

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Work/Organize: sc201

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:02:08 -0700

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SourceCode looks at Labor conditions worldwide and at home, from Bangalore to Imokalee Florida.

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