Political Analysis - 5/15/12
Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Among his most recent books are America Beyond Capitalism and (with Lew Daly) Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back. He believes — as conveyed by the title of one of his books — that we need to move beyond capitalism, in order to pave the way to a vibrant democracy with a sustainable economy that can satisfy human needs — not least of which is the need to control one’s work and life.
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The third in a series of "Conversations for the 21st Century"
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At the bottom of the hour,
the magnificent Dr. Margaret Flowers, who has advocated passionately for a single-payer system of healthcare in the US, talks to SLV about the desperate need for healthcare equity in the US, and why she is personally arso committed to a universal (single-payer) healthcare system. Dr. Flowers recently joined the Occupy movement, which she views as an important vehicle for spreading the word -- and mobilizing activists -- around universal care as a human right. Standard Podcasts [00:54:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (189)(0 ratings) Political Analysis - 4/10/12
Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest talks to US army veteran-turned-peace activist Paul Chappell, whose personal narrative about his decision to "wage peace" and change the (mythological) narrative about war is as compelling as it is passionate.
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First half hour:
BREAKING NEWS: Tonight, in real time, we hear the heartbreaking story of how a group of working class families, residents of a mobile home park in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania are being evicted from their homes to make way for for a proposed water withdrawal facility in Piatt Township. The facility would pump millions of gallons of water daily from the Susquehanna River to a gas drilling (aka Hydraulic Fracturing or Fracking) facility just north of Jersey Shore. Sandy LeonVest talks to Kevin June, a resident and manager of the mobile home park and hydrofracking activist and community organizer Alex Lotorto, both of whom offer insight into the very personal and poignant stories of the park's residents, where the fallout from Pennsylvania’s natural gas boom is being felt by an entire community.
Second half hour:
Roots Action Executive Director Aimee Allison updates listeners on the west coast occupy movement, as well as current efforts to tax super-PACs, push Congress to allow states to create a single-payer health care system and a bill currently in the House of Representatives that would speed up the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Aimee and SLV also discuss yesterday's (April 2nd) Supreme Court ruling allowing law enforcement authorities – at all levels, federal, state, and local – to legally force anyone they arrest to submit to a strip-search -- whether or not there is probable cause for such an egregious violation of personal privacy rights.
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Guests: Gar Alperovitz and Bryan Welch
Bryan Welch is the publisher of the highly successful Mother Earth News, Utne Reader and other publications, and one of the nation’s leading thinkers on what some have dubbed the "new capitalism." His vision of a more just and sustainable world proposes a capitalism that distributes value according to the durability, provenance and sustainability of products -- by paying attention to every consequence of a company’s operation.
Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Among his most recent books are America Beyond Capitalism and (with Lew Daly) Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back. He believes -- as conveyed by the title of one of his books -- that we need to move beyond capitalism, in order to pave the way to a vibrant democracy with a sustainable economy that can satisfy human needs -- not least of which is the need to control one’s work and life.
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This week on Political Analysis:
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Guest: Richard Littlemore, co-editor of DeSmogBlog
This week, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest commemorates the one-year anniversary of the nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, opening the show with newly released audio clips from Scientific American. The clips reveal a chilling sequence of events and interactions that took place between NRC officials and other nuclear principals, as they tried desperately to comprehend what was happening during the first week of the crisis. The show also features SLV's commentary and audio clips of a press conference held earlier this month to examine what are now being called “criminal errors” made by TEPCO officials at the time of the Fukushima meltdown. The conference, lead by Dr. Eiichi Yamaguchi, chairman of a grass-roots investigatory committee known as the Fukushima Project, was held to mark the one year anniversary of the March 11 nuclear disaster.
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As President Obama continues to hammer on natural gas as a "bridge fuel" (to a "renewable future"), Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest features a conversation on the subject of "safe hydrofracking." Daniel J. Weiss, of the Center for American Progress argues that hydraulic fracturing can be made safe with proper regulations in place, while Adrienne Esposito of New York's Citizens Campaign for the Environment, believes the process is inherently dangerous. She endorses the "precautionary principle" as the only reasonable response to the current push for increased nat gas drilling in the US.
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