Washington's Bailout of Wall Street & McCain's Nuclear Connection
How Washington's bailout of Wall Street helps - and hurts - the fight against climate change. President Bush wants more than $700 (B) billion dollars to shore up the nation's financial giants, but what if that money went toward environmental justice - or green jobs - or both? Then we line up the connections between John McCain's campaign, Swift Boats, and nuclear power.
Joining host Daphne Wysham in our Washington, DC studios is economist Jim Barrett of Redefining Progress. On the telephone from his Massachusetts office is Chuck Collins, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and the director of IPS's Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Also on the phone, this time from Columbus, Ohio is Harvey Wasserman, the author of Solartopia.
A new green economy won't just fight global warming -- it'll be a rising tide that lifts all boats. That's according to the new report, A Climate of Change. We speak to its author, Nia Robinson, the director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.
Then, the connections between Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, the Swift Boat campaign of 2002, and nuclear power. We speak to Diane D'Arrigo of the Nuclear Information Research Service and Cyrus Reed of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club in Texas.
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Music in this edition of Earthbeat include 'Shameless' by Ani DiFranco.
Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.