TheNation.com and WireTap Magazine have partnered on a series of stories highlighting some of the successful young activists across the country. This video, produced by Brett Story, focuses on one of the groups, Green For All, which is dedicated to lifting people out of poverty through a green economy. For more information on this subject, visit http://www.thenation .com/doc/20081201/ri zga.
In this Nation Institute/Hidden Driver exclusive, reporter A.C. Thompson talks with innocent victims and ruthless vigilantes about his expose on shootings of black New Orleans residents fleeing the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and police misconduct after the storm. The full story is at http://www.thenation .com/doc/20090105/th ompson
Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn talks with Raul Castro about Obama, Guantanamo and the Pentagon; and with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on human rights in his country and the next US administration. You can read Penn's piece on his experience here: http://www.thenation .com/doc/20081215/pe nn
Watch Your (Fo)odometer!
Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.
In this October 11 Democracy Now interview, Susan Burke of the Center for Constitutional Reform and Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explain details of a wrongful death lawsuit filed in US district court by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in a September 16 shooting in Baghdad.
Nation columnist Naomi Klein explores a key argument from her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: After 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined notion of evil. Read more in her 2005 Nation column "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
As the recession deepens, Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel discusses strategies for Obama administration to rebuild the public infrastructure and rethink the stimulus package so Wall Street isn't the only recipient.
Nation magazine columnist Naomi Klein speaks at a Nation/Brecht Forum event about the financial crisis. She offers some blunt advice to Barack Obama ("Larry Summers and Bob Rubin have got to go") and one big proposal: Nationalize Exxon.
Mayor Malloy talks about the effect of the current financial crisis on cities and discusses stimulus strategies for short-term recovery and long-term growth.
Nation Magazine Publisher Emeritus Victor Navasky is in Denver, CO this week covering the Democratic National Convention. In this interview with Nation correspondent Ari Berman, Navasky looks back fourteen conventions to his first time on the floor in 1956, offering lessons learned and reflecting on the significance of Obama's nomination in 2008. Produced by Brett Story
First come the roads, and big logging companies take a few hardwoods; then come poachers, settlers and agro firms. Before you know it, deforestation picks up speed. Nation correspondent Christian Parenti journeys deep into the heart of the Congo Basin woodlands to see how a massive logging boom is decimating the world's second-largest tropical forest.
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