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"Absolutely brilliant on numerous levels, Scott Noble’s Plutocracy is the story of the American working class…I look forward to the day when this series will become part of the historical education available to every new member of the labor movement, to teach the next generation of activists the lessons of our history, and to arm them for the future."
Your path gets started by investing and capturing the most profitable companies. "The problem definitely comes from the top," veteran bank regulator William K. Black says.
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Herbert travelled across the US and found that jobs have disappeared, infrastructure is falling apart and the “virtuous cycle” of well-paid workers spending their wages to power the economy has been broken.Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation last week reminds us of an infuriating fact: No senior Wall Street executives have been criminally prosecuted for their role in causing the financial meltdown. Bill discusses the conflict with Jonathan Landay, a national security reporter for McClatchy Newspapers and Matthew Hoh, a former foreign service officer in Afghanistan.Ahead of the UN’s global summit on climate and as thousands gather in NY for the People’s Climate March, Bill talks to 18-year-old Oregonian Kelsey Juliana, who is walking across America to draw attention to global warming.
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By creating an account, you acknowledge that PBS may share your information with our member stations and our respective service providers, and that you have read and understand the This week, Bill speaks with Robert A. Williams Jr., a professor specializing in American Indian law, about how such deals are a part of American Indian's tragic history of dispossession.The very agencies created to protect our environment have been hijacked by the polluting industries they were meant to regulate. In addition to her fiction, she is also an accomplished essayist, and on this week’s show, Bill talks with her about her fervent belief in the power of grace and faith and her devotion to democracy.Reporter and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert talks to Bill about his new book, “Losing Our Way,” the stories of brave, hard-working men and women battered by the economic downturn.
This week Bill Moyers looks at how a portion of the famous skyline of Manhattan, towering above the south end of Central Park, is becoming a symbol of how wealth and power get their way without regard for the impact on the lives and neighborhoods of everyday people.
Now just out of high school, she’s co-plaintiff in a major lawsuit that could force Oregon to take a more aggressive stance against the carbon emissions warming the earth and dWhile a majority of Americans think global warming is real and that human activity’s a factor, some two-thirds of white evangelical Christians aren’t convinced.
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Achieve financial wealth by buying out companies, building monopolies which in turn help you to lobby laws and politicians, corrupt officials.
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Copy failed. Copy failed. Ken Burns' seven-part PBS series on the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, is a remarkable achievement. The middle class is being squeezed out as the wealthy drive up real estate values and the working poor are shoved farther into squalor. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian, believes that her faith is compatible with science.
Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game? Metanoia Films, Political Documentary, Documentaries, Occupy Wall Street, Rise Like Lions, Police State Canada, Lifting The Veil, Psywar, Human Resources This week Bill Moyers looks at how a portion of the famous skyline of Manhattan, towering above the south end of Central Park, is becoming a symbol of how wealth and power get their way without regard for the impact on the lives and neighborhoods of everyday people.
This week Bill Moyers looks at how a portion of the famous skyline of Manhattan, towering above the south end of Central Park, is becoming a symbol of how wealth and power get their way without regard for the impact on the lives and neighborhoods of everyday people. This week, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and reporter Harriet Rowan, a college student and journalist who uncovered the Chevron funding story, talk about the role unlimited sums of corporate cash have played in Richmond.Days ahead of the midterm elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent US Senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. Live TV
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https://www.pbs.org/video/moyers-company-long-dark-shadows-plutocracy Your report has been successfully submitted. A plutocracy (Greek: πλοῦτος, ploutos, 'wealth' + κράτος, kratos, 'power') or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.The first known use of the term in English dates from 1631. Your report has been successfully submitted. Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. Thank you for helping us improve PBS Video. The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy Across our country, millions of people of ordinary means can’t afford decent housing.
Please try again. This week, Lawrence Lessig and Zephyr Teachout return to talk about the corrupting influence of money in politics — a subject both have studied as scholars — and how they’re fighting to reform the system.