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America Can't Afford Wal-Mart Any Longer

2008-12-05T10:28:23Z

$1.8 billion in taxpayer subsidies to cover employees' medical expenses. Lost wages for 1.6 million women. Untold numbers of jobs sent overseas.

Wal-Mart continues to turn a profit while America's middle class foots the bill.

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Katrina vanden Heuvel on a stimulus for the People

2008-12-05T10:56:44Z

Katrina vanden Heuvel on a stimulus for the People

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Child Poverty in America - Marian Wright Edelman

2008-12-05T10:54:01Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman criticizes child poverty rates in America, using the image of a family with six children who only care for five.

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Marian Wright Edelman talks about her new book The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.

The founder of the Children's Defense Fund looks back on what has been done, and what needs to be done, to make the nation and world safe and fair for all children. - Book Passage

Marian Wright Edelman was born in and grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, one of five children. In 1963, after graduating from Yale Law School, Marian Wright Edelman worked first in New York for the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund, and then in Mississippi for the same organization. There, she became the first African American woman to practice law. During her time in Mississippi, she worked on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement, and she also helped get a Head Start program established in her community.

During a tour by Robert Kennedy and Joseph Clark of Mississippi's poverty-ridden Delta slums, Marian met Peter Edelman, an assistant to Kennedy, and the next year she moved to Washington, D.C., to marry him and to work for social justice in the center of America's political scene. They had three sons.As part of the efforts of Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund on behalf of children, she has also advocated pregnancy prevention, child care funding, health care funding, prenatal care, parental responsibility for education in values, reducing the violent images presented to children, and selective gun control in the wake of school shootings.

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Plight of the Roma community in Kosovo - 24 Nov 08

2008-11-29T04:56:24Z

Many of Europe's 10 to 12 million Roma, or Gypsy, communities live in central or eastern Europe on the margins of society.

For them, Europe's 'untouchables', poverty, persecution and discrimination are part of daily life.

A summit in Strasbourg is trying to address this issue and examine the Roma plight.

Since 1999 the Roma population in Kosovo has fallen sharply after ongoing attacks.

Al Jazeera's Barnaby Philips reports.

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Madagascar's poor are getting poorer - 23 Nov 08

2008-11-28T22:57:23Z

Magadascar's president Mark Rav swept into power six years ago on the promise he would cut poverty by 50 per cent in five years by opening up the country to free market reforms.

Most Malagsy live on less than a $1 dollar a day and the poor are getting poorer.

In the first of three reports from Madagascar, people tell Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton that the only person benefitting from the reforms in the country is the president himself.

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In My Name

2008-12-03T16:24:37Z

In my name, but for the sake of all, I want My leaders, all leaders, all people, and all peoples of the earth to stand up and do what is right, to do what is required, end extreme poverty, educate all peoples in the planet.. make this a better world then the one we inherited. We owe it to the ones who came before us, and more importantly we owe it to the ones that will come after us. Peace, Love, and Light to All peoples of the Planet The Starting Point www.youtube.com The Movement www.inmyname.com The Millennium Development Goals www.inmyname.com about/mdgs-spotlight The Goals Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Goal 3: Promote gender equality Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Goal 5: Improve maternal health Goal 6: Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

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Venezuelan president's popularity hit by power cuts -21Nov08

2008-11-26T04:56:18Z

Popular support from the poor helped bring Chavez to power. But as they struggle with violent crime, inflation and high unemployment, many have grown weary of their daily struggles.

Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports.

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Re: Sarah Palin and the "You've Got To Be Kidding" Tour | Bill Maher Nov 14 2008 1/7

2008-11-26T12:57:36Z

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Justice for Cleaners - John McDonnell MP | Birkbeck College

2008-12-05T10:51:01Z

Including sppeches from the florr of meeting held in the Birkbeck Bar as part of the Campaign for the London Living wage for cleaners and porters employed by subcontracting firm OCEAN who pay poverty wages.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk

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Rudy Giuliani: Meet and Greet 01/16/08

2008-12-05T10:55:17Z

Rudy Giuliani
Meet and Greet
Pensacola, FL 01/16/08

TRANSCRIPT:
RUDY GIULIANI: Each year... 20-30 million people a year are coming out of poverty in India and China. Some Americans look at that and they say thats a real challenge to our jobs... heres the way I look at it: 20 or 30 million people coming out of poverty anywhere is good, its a great trend, its the way we want the world to go and look at all those new customers for the United States of America.
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Look at all those people who now have more disposable income and boy do we have things to sell to them. In fact we have their future to sell to them.

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The Green Collar Economy - Van Jones of the Center for ...

2008-12-05T10:51:07Z

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/energy

In "The Green Collar Economy", Center for American Progress Senior Fellow, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal—all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.

Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.

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Homeless in Hong Kong - 13 Nov 08

2008-11-17T06:55:37Z

The global financial crisis is hitting the poor in Hong Kong.

As Al Jazeera's Aela Callan reports, the number of homeless is rising as more workers are laid off.

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Crisis looms in drought-stricken Niger - Nov 8 08

2008-11-13T02:55:05Z

In Niger, there are too many mouths to feed, and not enough productive land. The country already struggles with extreme poverty but now Niger is being hard hit by climate change.

Rural populations are being starved off their land and as a result there is a mass exodus into the cities.

Al Jazeera's May Ying Welsh reports.

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Thousands flee DRC fighting - 29 Oct 08

2008-11-02T04:54:49Z

A city that had become a haven for tens of thousands fleeing fighting, is now itself emptying in panic, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Reports are coming out of Goma of a city in turmoil, amid fears that Laurent Nkunda's rebel fighters are closing in.

Dan Nolan reports.

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Proof of Republican Fiscal Responsibility

2008-12-05T10:18:12Z

A portion of John McCain's acceptance speech with a listing of statistical proof of the Republican Party as the fiscally responsible political party.

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Learning from the Harlem Children's Zone

2008-12-05T10:51:08Z

http://halfinten.org/

Harlem Children's Zone is America's most ambitious and closely watched effort to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. HCZ aims to create a "conveyor belt" for Harlem's poor children, a series of rich and effective supports-from a "Baby College" for parents, to an all-day pre-kindergarten and extended-day charter schools, to health clinics and community centers, all the way to help in succeeding in college. Together, these efforts aim to give poor children the stimulation and the opportunities that most kids growing up in middle-class neighborhoods receive from birth. This year, HCZ will serve 8,000 children living in the 97 block Zone. The initiative has been featured on 60 Minutes, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and in the New York Times Magazine.

Policymakers have long talked about the lessons of HCZ for anti-poverty policy nationwide, and now there are proposals to replicate the HCZ model nationally. This event brings together Geoffrey Canada, HCZ's President and Chief Executive Officer; Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics professor and the founder of Harvard's new Education Innovation Laboratory, a major effort to identify and evaluate promising approaches to closing the achievement gap; and Paul Tough, a New York Times Magazine editor and the author of the new book, Whatever It Takes, a critically acclaimed look at HCZ in the broader context of American poverty and education policy.

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SEIU, the working class, and the election-3/4

2008-11-07T08:52:03Z

Why Don't Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class?

With the economy the number one issue on the campaign trail, major party candidates John McCain and Barack Obama discuss their tax plans, jobs and the financial bailout on the stump. But are they really addressing the needs of the working class? A new study from the Center for the Study of Working Class Life suggests that neither McCain nor Obama have adequately spoken to the needs of one-fifth of the populationâ€”the 60 million Americans who are barely surviving in this economy.

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SEIU,the working class, and the election-2/4

2008-11-06T18:54:56Z

Why Don't Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class?

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SEIU, the working class, and the election-4/4

2008-11-08T02:55:41Z

Why Don't Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class?

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Financial Inequality Rapidly Grows in US

2008-11-08T02:55:40Z

UN: Financial Inequality Rapidly Grows in US

A new United Nations report has revealed major US cities, including New York, Washington, Atlanta and New Orleans, have levels of economic inequality that rival cities in Africa. The report found that the United States had the highest inequality and poverty after Mexico and Turkey, and the gap has increased rapidly since 2000. The life expectancy of African Americans in the United States is about the same as that of people living in China and some states of India.

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Revolution Bike Ride for Global Change

2008-12-05T10:46:42Z

This Fireside Feature tells the story of the non-profit, Revision International... as its co-founders gear up for an incredible bike ride across two continents. The Revolution ride is dedicated to finding new ways to protect our planet and its people.

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SEIU, the working class, and the election-1/4

2008-11-06T18:54:56Z

Puerto Rican Labor Struggle: Teachers Vote Against Joining SEIU

Itâ€™s a major victory for the forty-two-year-old Teachers Federation of Puerto Rico, or FMPR. It was Puerto Ricoâ€™s largest union, representing over 40,000 teachers. But earlier this year, after many months of trying to negotiate with the governor, the FMPR was decertified over its refusal to comply with a ban on strikes by public employees. [includes rush transcript]

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Greg Palast Reports: BBC NewsNight- Vulture Funds

2008-10-24T14:58:52Z

Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports on one company that has won the right to collect $20 million from the government of Zambia after buying its debt for $4 million. In his recent State of the Union address, President Bush declared the United States was taking on the challenges of global hunger, poverty and disease, and urged support for debt relief, which he called the best hope for eliminating poverty.

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Greg Palast Reports- Part 2 of BBC NewsNight Vulture Bond

2008-10-24T14:58:52Z

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Part 2- Palast on the Randi Rhodes show on Vultures

2008-12-05T10:39:26Z

Randi and Greg talk about the latest on Vulture Funds on Air America Radio - June 11, 2007.

(Filmed & Edited by Matt Pascarella)

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