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Greg Grandin, Youth Unemployment, and Obama’s Power
Latin America is ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting resource-extracting corporations, says NYU professor Greg Grandin. While Obama makes nice with BP CEO Tony Hayward (and Glenn Beck claims that Obama is unfair to Hayward because he's white), Grandin notes, social movements across South and Central America have been fighting the companies that are after their resources for a while now--and dealing with the repercussions; often violent death squads, as well.
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Jim Shultz: Bolivia and its Lithium
As we watch the oil from BP's well filling the Gulf of Mexico, it is easy to turn to talk of alternative fuels and their relative safety. Bolivia has more than half the planet's known lithium reserves, giving it a leg up on the alternative fuel market....
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Coal Free Future, Still Alive in Gaza, and Jim Shultz
Frequent GRITtv guest Jeff Biggers has created the Coal Free Future Project, along with Stephanie Pistello, as a creative and artistic component to the growing climate justice movement, pushing for clean energy and human rights. As part of their project, they are presenting their multimedia theater project, "4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire" at New York's Gene Frankel Theatre from June 4th to the 13th.
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Greg Grandin: Beck, BP and Latin America’s Leadership