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GRITtv: Emergildo Criollo: Chevron, Clean it Up!

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Emergildo Criollo is an indigenous leader from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest. He recorded this message for oil giant Chevron's CEO John Watson: clean up your toxic contamination. In early March 2010, Emergildo traveled from the Amazon to California, to deliver a letter appealing for clean-up, along with 325,000 petitions from supporters in more than 150 countries. Thanks to Rainforest Action Network for the clip.

GRITtv: Mar. 10 2010

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Arun Gupta in the latest issue of the Indypendent, on the way neoliberal "reforms" are being pushed Haiti's way. Gupta joins guest host Esther Armah in the studio, along with Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, who just returned from Haiti, to talk about the rebuilding effort underway and how people in the U.S. can help make sure Haiti is rebuilt for the Haitian people. Simon Kashama learned English listening to music like the Rolling Stones and James Brown--he was born in the Congo but spent his childhood in Belgium.

Copenhagen News: Friday, Dec. 11, 2009

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Experts in Copenhagen Friday focused on finance proposals and the upcoming arrival of foreign ministers. Climate Action Network International (CAN-I) is a global coalition of environmental and development organizations with more than 500 member organizations. Every day at COP15, CAN-I conducts a press briefing to assess the state of the negotiations, in which NGO experts break down the state of play and look forward at what's to come.  The panel includes Nelson Muffuh of Christian Aid, CAFOD's Liz Gallagher, and Tove Ryding of Greenpeace.

GRITtv: Cooperation to Save Antarctica

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Heading into Copenhagen, Greenpeace's Kelly Rigg explains how cooperation and action accomplished an impossible goal in Antarctica -- and how it can happen again. Let's hope the politicians making decisions in the next two weeks are listening.

GRITtv: Antonia Juhasz: Oil Power Preventing Climate Action

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Antonia Juhasz, author of "The Tyranny of Oil", topped by the studio to discuss the "petroleum-filled smokescreen" that is keeping Obama from pushing for real action in Copenhagen, and to call for citizens to help get rid of it.

GRITtv: Dec. 8, 2009

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Maya Wiley, Tim Casey and Heather Boushey discuss the problems with unemployment and underemployment in this country and that they will not be fixed by returning to where we were. Author Thomas Frank's study of conservatives has left him convinced that having anti-government people in charge of government leads only to destruction. In the second part of yesterday's video from the Real News Network on the ongoing crisis in Honduras, we look at what happens next. After claiming victory in the heavily-boycotted election, what will the new government do to consolidate its power?

GRITtv: CCR's Bill Quigley on the G20 Protests in Pittsburgh

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Last week world leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit and delivered - as usual - lots of talk but little promise for action. There was definitely lots of action on the city's streets as security forces clashed with protesters. Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of "Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice" is just back from Pittsburgh to break down the week's events for us.

SourceCode: New Orleans/Sacrificial Zone

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Accusations of racism and classism in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina demand we open these issues to public debate. Join Amiri Baraka, Damu Smith, Dr. Beverly Wright, Malik Rahim, Food Not Bombs, and many survivors.

SourceCode: Greed/Water

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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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