Programs with the subject 'Economics'

• A Conversation: Howard Zinn and Woody Harrelson
  Famed people's historian Howard Zinn died at the end of January 2010. A rigorous scholar, tireless advocate for economic and social justice, and a man of great good humor and generosity, he will be greatly missed. This delightful and engaging conversation with actor Woody Harrelson reveals Howard's rigorous scholarship and profound, gentle wisdom.
• Born to Be Sold: The Strange Case of Baby M/S
  On Paper Tiger, Martha Rosler discusses the media coverage of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead.
• Breathless
  In 1992, New York City announced its plan to build seven garbage incinerators in low income neighborhoods to solve the city's waste problem.
• Chris Hedges at Culture Project
  Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & author of "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt", speaks about rebellion, Occupy, & the power of resistance at The Culture Project. This is a part of Culture Project's "Conversation on Economy", filmed on July 25, 2012 at the IMPACT Festival.
• Chris Hedges Speaking at the Left Forum 2012
  Chris Hedges, author, journalist, professor and cultural critic speaks at the closing plenary of the 2012 Left Forum.
• Empire and Oil
  Modern empires run on oil, and controlling these resources is key to the domination of potential rivals. This program examines the recent history of the Middle East and the Iraq War in relation to the desire of Western powers to control its petroleum resources, "the greatest strategic prize in history.”
• Fighting for Our Lives and The Wrath of Grapes
  This two part video foucuses 1) on the pesticides sprayed on the fruit we eat, and 2) the history of the united farm workers.
• Free Trade
  Apparel industry imports have had a devastating effect on US communities. Free Trade" explores the destructive economic realities of domestic plant closures, not just on the thousands of unemployed workers and their families, but on the entire community they support.
• Global Uprisings
  For over a year, Deep Dish TV producers Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelburgh have been traveling through Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East documenting the unprecedented global uprisings that began with Tunisia and Egypt’s Tahrir Square and continued with Occupy Wall Street, Spain’s Indignados and the Greek rebellion. To date, they have made 12 short films in 5 countries, on a tight budget. You can view all the short films in the series here.
• Herb Schiller Reads The New York Times
  Communications expert Herb Schiller peels away the many layers of the Sunday Times.
• Home Sweet Homefront
  This video both exposes the drastic living situations that people have faced due to Reagan year cut backs, and attempts to recreate the media image of a homeless person as someone with dignity and strength.
• Latinos and Labor
  Dramatic and moving stories of seemingly powerless laborers, many of them immigrants, all of them working in low paying jobs, uniting to achieve remarkable contract victories in the face of corporate power and police brutality. "Si Se Puede = Yes We Can!"
• Latinos and Labor
  Two programs explore labor struggles in Puerto Rico. The first a look a Puerto Rican labor history through the eyes of retired workers. The second chronicles a victorious 1970 General Strike.
• Latinos and Labor
  The U.S.Mexican border: zone of hope, brutalization and exploitation. Does "free trade" free people or only capital? Two half hour programs explore U.S. Mexico relations on key issues.
• Leave The Oil In The Soil-Leave the Coal in the Hole.
  Opening session of the Left Forum 2012. Intro remarks by Stanley Aronowitz and presentation by Nnimmo Bassey, Execuitive Director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria and Chair of Friends of the Earth International
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious about Class Dynamics with Bill Fletcher Jr.
  Bill Fletcher of BlackCommentator.com speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious about Class Dynamics with Bill Tabb
  Author William Tabb speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious about Class Dynamics with Dr. Mary Gatta
  Dr. Mary Gatta of Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious About Class with Michael Zweig
  SUNY Professor Michael Zweig speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Horizontalism vs Revolutionary State Power Session
  Raymond Lotta and John Clarke discuss whether or not Occupy and similar movements require vanguard leadership to unleash conscious activism amongst the masses.
• Left Forum 2012 Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Sam Stein
  Sam Stein speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on discusses gentrification in Chinatown, New York, and beyond in the context of the housing crisis, which has disproportionately affected working communities of color.
• Left Forum 2012 Workers' Cooperatives: The International Context with Carl Davidson
  As the capitalist economy is in a state of rapid decline, the panel examines the historic and contemporary relevance of workers cooperatives as an alternative to capitalist and private ownership of property and enterprises. The panel explores the trajectory of worker control in the comparative national contexts and its challenge to capitalist domination.
• Left Forum 2012 Workers' Cooperatives: The International Context with Peter Ranis
  As the capitalist economy is in a state of rapid decline, the panel examines the historic and contemporary relevance of workers cooperatives as an alternative to capitalist and private ownership of property and enterprises. The panel explores the trajectory of worker control in the comparative national contexts and its challenge to capitalist domination.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Gregory Wilpert
  Gregory Wilpert, professor, author, and activist, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Michael Klare
  Michael Klare speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Neil Smith
  Neil Smith, CUNY Ph.D professor, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Phyllis Bennis
  Phyllis Bennis, writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Ellen David Friedman
  Ellen David Friedman, a Visiting Scholar from the International Center for Joint Labor Research at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on race, the housing crisis, and gentrification in Chinatown, New York,and beyond.
• Left Forum 2012: Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Helena Wong
  Helena Wong, a community organizer focusing on Asian American communities, discusses gentrification in Chinatown, New York, and beyond in the context of the housing crisis, which has disproportionately affected working communities of color.
• Left Forum 2012: Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in China, Chinatown and Beyond with Pengfei Li
  Pengfei Li, a student and researcher at the the CUNY Graduate Center's Environmental Psychology Program, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 panel on race, the housing crisis, and gentrification in Chinatown, New York,and beyond.
• Left Forum Closing Plenary 2012
  The closing plenary for the 2012 Left Forum in its entirety.
• Michael Harrington Looks At Democracy
  Why was the 1988 electorate at an all time low? Micheal Harrington, author of "The Other America", begins to de-mystify the American political process.
• Michael Moore at the Left Forum
  Michael Moore's speech at the Left Forum 2012.
• Mutiny on the Corporate Sponsorship
  Issues of media access, coverage decisions and the corporate underwriting of the media industry.
• National Health Emergency: An Activist Survey
  A trenchant analysis of health care reform in the United States. Though made in 1994, it remains, sadly, accurate.
• No Hay Paz (There is No Peace)
  A portrait of Salvadoran refugees living in the U.S.
• Occupied Barcelona: The Spanish Election Rejection
  In the midst of rising unemployment rates, extensive austerity measures and increased privatization, many Spanish people are losing faith in electoral politics.
• Occupy Wall Street - The Movement Grows!
  Since Saturday, September 17, 2011, thousands have been gathering at Zucotti Park in downtown New York City, in the eye of the storm of capitalism, to protest the erosion of economic justice, social equality and democracy itself over the past 40 years, during which the living standards of 99% of Americans has declined, while the richest 1% have reaped the benefits. But this isn't your average U.S. protest - inspired by the Arab Spring and protests in Greece, Spain and elsehwere in Europe, OWS is dynamic yet leaderless, organized yet broad-based. The media, the general public and the very politicians are looking to established media narratives to make sense of this movement, but they will not find any help there. One thing is clear: it is time to end our deference to corporate, monied power, and time to hold the banksters accountable for the financial crimes committed against the people of the United States. And, most importantly, it is time to find an alternative to the currently-deteriorating system of capitalism. As economist Richard Wolff emplored a gathering of listeners on an early October evening, "You can do better than capitalism!"
• People and the Land
  This video focuses on the environmental destruction that has occurred due to the farm crisis.
• Phambili!
  Examines women's role in the South African economy.
• Robert Johnson at Culture Project
  Robert Johnson, Former Senate Economist, speaks about the disintegration of trust in government, banks, and in the present corporate capitalist economy. This is a part of Culture Project's "Conversation on Economy", filmed on July 25, 2012 at the IMPACT Festival.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 1: Seattle Prelude
  Seattle heats up as thousands pour into the city for week-long rallies and demonstrations in protest of WTO.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 2: People Unite, Police Riot
  Protests are met by Seattle poice and barrage of chemical weapons and rubber bullets.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 3: Occupied Seattle
  Segment includes Steelworkers' rally which is met with Police teargas, as well as examinations of legal issues posed by Police abuse, indigenous issue with the WTO, and a critical look at how the media has covered the protests.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 4: Unwilling Captives
  Segment on questionable legal processing dealing with Seattle protesters
• Showdown in Seattle Part 5: What Democracy Looks Like
  The WTO ends in failure and celebration.
• Student Debt Serfdom
  If nothing changes, student debt will haunt today’s youth into old age. How did we get locked into debt, who’s profiting from the status quo, and how can we reclaim our futures?
• Suncookers
  Wood is the basic fuel for over 2.5 billion people in the world. Women in northeastern Kenya spend hours a day searching for wood resulting in deforestation, soil erosion and cooking smoke induced lung diseases. Margaret Owino has found a solution: solar cookers.
• The Economy of Militarization
  Samir Amin examines the dynamic reconfiguration of imperial exploitation in the 21st century.
• The Last Televangelist on the First Amendment
  This is an excerpt from a new Deep Dish series which will run on Free Speech TV in Fall 2008. It features the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and Reverend Billy. It was produced by Big Noise Films in collaboration with FSTV and the Church.
• The Last Televangelist: Bye Bye Buying
  Rev. Billy ponders the true meaning of Christmas in words, music and film, and leads a demonstration with a gospel choir in front of Radio City Music Hall, warning of the coming Shopocalypse. The Rev. Billy's Church of Life After Shopping offers messages of hope, revolution and humor.
• The Oakland Commune
  Occupy Oakland's particular character resulted from years of struggle and repression in the Bay Area. This short documentary by Deep Dish TV producers Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh details the ongoing story of the Oakland Commune.
• The Problem Is the System of Unequal Privlege and Control. Occupy the Narrative!
  William Tabb is the author of The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time.
• Theres no Place like Home: Housing Crisis, USA
  All kinds of people nationwide are suffering from the severe shortage of affordable housing.
• Voices of Democracy: Living the First Amendment
  Is it really safe to watch the six o'clock news?
• War on the Homefront
  An accelerated decline of the US economy, labor, housing and healthcare lie in the wake of the first Gulf War.Gulf Crisis TV Project: made in collaboration with Paper Tiger Part 10 of the 10-part "Gulf Crisis TV Project" series. The billions of dollars spent on mass destruction in the war is paralleled to the decline of the US economy, budget cuts in labor, healthcare, housing and education. It examines the military treatment of public lands within the US, the ecological devastation that occurs in the production of weapons and the grassroots movements efforts to change this nation's priorities. An accelerated decline of the US economy, labor, housing and healthcare lie in the wake of the first Gulf War.
• We Are The Crisis of Capital
  John Holloway is a Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico
• Working Pictures
  This video explores the difficulties faced by the American labor movement, as corporate globalization takes hold.