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Online Video  Robert Scheer: The Great American Stick Up ... Is Still Going On!
 Robert Scheer returns one year after publication of his book, "The Great American Stick Up". Things have only gotten worse. The economy continues to threaten to go completely off the rails. Wall Street bonuses are back -- big time -- and trading in exotic derivatives and the other financial gimmicks that caused the crash in the first place is back in high gear. Congress is still favoring Wall Street over Main Street. And people are still losing their homes and livelihoods.

Will they ever be held to account?

But some things have changed dramatically. A global and still-growing grassroots demand for accountability and a serious change in direction has emerged in the form of Occupy Wall Street. Can this astonishing movement -- which is pointing a laser-focused finger at Wall Street's criminals -- bring about substantive change? What changes, exactly, do we need?  1 hour 38 mins  Watch this video

Online Video Other Voices TV: Occupy the Future!
Occupy Wall Street actions are spreading around the world. The rich and powerful are responding with increasing violence, only to be met with renewed and increased determination. What is it all about? Where is it all going? How do we turn our anger over flagrant economic inequality into meaningful changes in the system that has brought us to this point?

A panel of activists and analysts gather to discuss the many aspects of Occupy Wall Street. Panelists include Hilton Obenzinger (author, "Busy Dying"), Joshua Schott (Occupy Stanford), Donni Wang (Occupy Stanford), and host Paul George (Peninsula Peace & Justice Center).  58 minutes.  Click here to view this video.

Online Video Sasha Lilley: Capital and Its Discontents
Sasha Lilley discusses the ideas presented in her new book, Capital and Its Discontents. Capitalism is stumbling, empire is faltering, and the planet is thawing. Yet many people are still grasping to understand these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future.

Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster. She is the co-founder and host of the critically acclaimed program of radical ideas, Against the Grain. As program director of KPFA Radio, the flagship station of the Pacifica Network, she headed up such award-winning national broadcasts as Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan. Sasha Lilley is the series editor of PM Press’ political economy imprint, Spectre. (58 min) Watch this video

Online Video Other Voices TV: The State of Palestine
Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has made a formal request to the United Nations for recognition of the State of Palestine. The United States has vowed to veto the effort, which requires approval of the UN Security Council. Both moves are rife with uncertainty and the possibility of unforeseen repercussions.

Was this a good strategic move by the Palestinians? How will the US veto of a Palestinian state be viewed by other Arab and MIddle Eastern countries? Will the Palestinian effort to gain formal recognition as a state -- whether or not it is vetoed by the US -- help propel new movement in the so-called "peace process" or will it mark the end of those efforts?

Our guest, Joel Beinin, one of the country's top experts on the Israel-Palestine conflict, answers these and many other questions this new direction in the long-lasting conflict will no doubt inspire. 58 minutes  Watch this video.

Online Video David Cobb: End Corporate Personhood
Corporations have hijacked our government. We need to take it back. An important tool in the hijacking was corporate personhood. Ending it will help restore democracy.

David Cobb is an organizer and rousing speaker for Move to Amend (and a former Green Party Presidential Candidate). 1 hour 10 minutes. Watch this video

Online Video Paul George:  Government – And Everything Else – Of the Rich, By the Rich, For the Rich
The story of the hyperconcentration of wealth in the hands of a few is the topic for this talk by Paul George, director of Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.  It is a fact of economic life in this country – a fact that most people sense is the case but very few really have any idea just how out of balance the distribution of wealth has become.  And it is a fact that impacts on every other aspect of life in this country, especially in the way it damages our democracy. (58 MIN) Watch this video