From where rena is going to dive in and the starting point of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse and violence which we all suffer. It is evident in the financial crisis and the bp blow up and spill and numerous foot safety disasters that kill people from the new england compounding scandal, and workplace issues that rise across the country on a daily bases and more. You can step back saying we as a country dont do a good job with these problems because one marker is they persist over a period of time. We have a way of setting rules for corporations. You can fought imperil human life, threaten the environment, no you cant rip us off we dont do a good job enforcing the rules. We have to have inspectors looking at factories, supervisors to look at banks and we are not doing a good job funding those positions and they dont get enough support from the top to do such. When we do find violations, the hue is what do we do with companies that
The starting opinion of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence from which we all suffer. Its evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, and the bp blowup and oil spill, worse environmental disaster in the nations history, and numerous food safety crises and disasters that killed dozens rue teenly, and the new england Compounding Pharmacy scandal, and washingplace safety and Health Issues that arise at workplaces across the country daily, and much more. You have to step back and say we as country dont do a very good job of dealing with these problems, and one marker is they persist over long periods of time. So we have an issue how we set the rules for what is permissible for corporations to do. When we say, no, you cant imperil human life you cant 2013 the environment you cant rip us off. We dont do a good job of setting the rules. The rules we have, we have to have some kind of enforcement system, insp
Everybody, thanks for joining us, i am robert weissman, president of Public Citizens. We are here for a conversation about Rena Steinzors nuke wonderful book why not jail industrial companies, corporate malfeasance, and government inactio inaction, Rena Steinzor will speak for about half an hour and then Russel Mokhiber and i will talk about Rena Steinzors book and her remarks and we will open it up for discussion. The first step before we dive in, the starting point of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence which we all suffer. Is evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, above bp oil spill, worst environmental disaster in the nations history arguably, numerous food safety crises and disasters to kill dozens routinely, new england, pounding pharmacy scandal, Workplace Safety and health issues, work places across the country on a daily basis and much more and you have to step back and say we as a count
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Over. And the bay area is this is a look at the aftermath at levis stadium and super bowl city. You are also seeing video from after the game last night. Where thousands of employees were stranded for hours. Waiting to get a shuttle to their cars. Good evening im pam moore. New at 8 and only on 4 logistical problems at levis stadium this time for the employees who just wanted to go home. Kron 4s kate cagle has reaction from employees who want to see change. People who worked well for 2 hour day as to make it happen are stranded cars parked more than 6 mi. Away that took some men and women three hours to get home last night the pay the cab 15 to come to a bus stop and no. 50 bus home the super bowl was the day he will never forget. He is a huge thankyou who left at halftime passalong has golden ticket. Carlos looking at fort more events of hopes next time the make it happen with been stranded at the end. Was simply said that this experience it wouldnt give up for anything. Statement reg