Celebration for his release after coming under a deluge of angry phone calls and emails. We will go to idaho for the latest and then speak with Brock Mcintosh, who served in afghanistan near where bergdahl did and so to become a Conscientious Objector. Into seattle, washington, where the city council has passed an ordinance to phase in a 15 and hour minimum wage, the highest for major city in the United States. Todays message is clear. If we organize as workers, as the Labor Movement with a socialist strategy thomas we can tackle income inequality and social injustice. 15 in seattle is just a beginning. We have an entire world to win solidarity. We will speak with socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant. And we look at the new epa regulations on coal power plants. Today go far enough . Do they go far enough . All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is seeking to contain the
But foodopoly is really whats making people so sick. We run into the companies that are dictating the policy in this country. When you ask most people why so many children drink twice as many photos as they did in 1970, or why 35 of adults are obese and 17 of children are obese . Most people say it is kind of well, if the subsidies. People dont really know what is causing the problem with our food system. What really set me off to write foodopoly was a couple of events that happened in a weekend in 2011. I was traveling to a conference in the midwest as part of my job is part of my job at food and weather watch. I stopped to chat with some farmers. My questions were about how well they were doing. Because we look at the agriculture statistics, and we know from those statistics that farmers are not doing so well. One farmer in particular was telling me a really heartbreaking story. He was thinking about selling his farm, it was a commodity farm and it used to be an independent livestock
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