Jesse LaGreca: Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Driven By Anger
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/12/07/Blueprint_for_Accountability_Truth_and_Consequences Prominent Occupy Wall Street activist Jesse LaGreca argues that in a stale economy, working-class Americans are being forced to make big sacrifices while major Wall Street players have still not been held accountable for the economic downturn they h... Read more
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- -: Jesse LaGreca: Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Driven By Anger
December 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/12/07/Blueprint_for_Accountability_Truth_and_Consequences Prominent Occupy Wall Street activist Jesse LaGreca argues that in a stale economy, working-class Americans are being forced to make big sacrifices while major Wall Street players have still not been...
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- -: TEDxMarin - Olivia Ma - Why Do We Share?
June 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Olivia Ma is YouTube's News Manager. She develops news-related products and programming initiatives and works closely with both news organizations and citizen reporters using the site to share news video from around the world. She also manages YouTube's news editorial strategy through CitizenTube...
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- -: TEDxRamallah - Huwaida Arraf هويدا عراف - Humanity Has No Nationality
July 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian lawyer with American and Israeli citizenship. In 2001 Huwaida co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Huwaida is co-author of "Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solid...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Arturo Rodriguez - Why We Need Unions More Than Ever
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The laws on the books are often not the laws that exist in the fields for farmworkers. Sixteen California farmworkers have died of heat stress since 2005, when a law requiring shade was passed. Farmworkers need to band together to look out for their own interests. About Arturo S. Rodriguez, pr...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Nikki Henderson - The Black Power and Farmworker Movements
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Surely two of the biggest social justice movements of the 1960s were working together? Yes, they were -- but the shared history of the Black Power and César Chávez movements isn't well known. The Black Panthers supported the United Farm Workers' grape boycott by directing members away from Safewa...
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- -: TEDxKrakow - Srdja Popovic - A bad year for bad guys
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Srđa Popović was one of the founders and key organizers with the Serbian student nonviolent resistance group Otpor! Their nonviolent campaign to unseat Serbian president Slobodan Milošević met with success in October 2000, when hundreds of thousands of protestors converged upon and took over the ...
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- -: Is the Internet an Effective Forum for Public Debate?
November 28, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/27/Battle_of_Ideas_Digital_Commons Liberal author and columnist Alexander Cockburn argues that the so-called "Digital Commons" has not evolved into an effective forum for public debate. ----- "Digital commons: Does new technology add up to a new public...
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- -: Are the Olympics Outdated? - Frank Deford
July 15, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/23/Frank_Deford_on_Sports_The_Hype_and_the_Hypocrisy Acclaimed sportswriter Frank Deford addresses political issues surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and argues that the Olympic Games have become outdated as a cultural concept. ----- Frank Deford,...
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- -: Henry Kissinger on War and Dissent
July 23, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/21/Uncommon_Knowledge_Henry_Kissinger Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gives his perspective on warfare and anti-war dissent. ----- Henry Kissinger discusses war and more with Peter Robinson as part of the Hoover Institution's interview s...
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- -: China's Olympics Best-Case Scenario - James Miles
July 30, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/09/Earthquakes_and_Games_The_Economist_Covers_China China correspondent for The Economist James Miles outlines what would be the best possible scenario for China during the 2008 summer Olympics. ----- The Economist Covers China: Earthquakes, Demonstra...
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