August 26th, 2009 Posted by Bill Baue
FireDogLake blog founder Jane Hamsher discusses strategies for keeping the public option in healthcare. And Gwen Ottinger of the Chemical Heritage Foundation shares her critique of Cash for Clunkers, the federal program intended to replace gas-guzzlers with fuel efficient cars.
August 19th, 2009 Posted by Bill Baue
Sea Change Radio returns for a second week’s coverage of the 35th Annual Conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA.) Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with Gardening the Community (GtC) Director Ippy Amatul-Wadud and her sister Qamaria about this project of NOFA Massachusetts that teaches youth about organic farming in the city. And he [...]
August 12th, 2009 Posted by Francesca Rheannon
Sea Change Radio goes to the Northeast Organic Farm Association conference to talk with Will Allen of Growing Power, Abby Youngblood of Just Food, and Scott Kellogg, author of TOOLBOX FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY LIVING.
August 5th, 2009 Posted by Bill Baue
Sea Change Co-Host Francesca Rheannon speaks with Les Leopold about his new book, THE LOOTING OF AMERICA: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity — and What We Can Do About It. And this week’s Sea Change ViewPoint comes from Arvind Ganesan of Human Rights Watch, who brings us [...]
August 5th, 2009 Posted by Bill Baue
In July 2009, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled Well Oiled: Oil and Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea. In this commentary, HRW Director of Business and Human Rights Arvind Ganesan links this tiny Sub-Sahara African countries’ oil wealth to government corruption and human rights abuses.
August 5th, 2009 Posted by Bill Baue
By Bill Baue of Sea Change Media The United Nations’ 2005 appointment of Harvard Professor John Ruggie as Special Representative on Business and Human Rights shone a spotlight on the often adverse — and until then under-acknowledged — impact of corporations on human rights. The UN gave its imprimatur, but no budget, making Prof. Ruggie’s [...]