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Populist Dialogues - 12-41 Trans Pacific Partnership

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 2:07pm
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Guest Elizabeth Swager is Asst Director of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. She talks about her role in the enactment of Portland Oregon's sweat-free procurement ordinance, designed to protect foreign factory workers. She goes on to review past “free-trade agreements” (NAFTA, Panama, Columbia and So Korea) and their effects on American jobs losses, tax havens and challenges to laws and regulations as a result of investor protection clauses. The TransPacific Partnership is then discussed as as NAFTA on Steroids.

Media Edge

Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 12:09pm
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SHOCKING AND AWFUL MARATHON -- PART ONE
10 years after the second US invasion of Iraq, the Deep Dish TV series "Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation" remains the most comprehensive and powerful analysis of the war and opposition that arose in the US and around the world. To mark the 8th anniversary since the first "Media Edge" telecast on April 3, 2005, we present this entire 12-part series during the next three weeks, with each Media Edge episode featuring four of the Shocking and Awful series programs:

What's Going On?

Submitted by Jon Li on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 5:58pm
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Jon Li interviews Noha Radwan, UCD Comparative Literature professor.

What's Going On?

Attention 6th Graders: find out about what Egypt is like today. Now
that you know what it was like when it ruled the world, you can find
out the challenges now.

Find out what happened a year ago when the Arab Spring Revolution was
unfolding at Tahrir Square in Cairo from an eye witness.