Health — United States.

  • Supermarket stories / produced by Ira Glass.

    Series exploring the economic, political and social forces which shape food production and distribution around the world. Each of the 10 modules begins in a supermarket, and then traces a topic back to its origins. |r.1. The Secret wars between store brands and name brands (10 min.) ; Can broccoli biz saves Guatemala’s peasants (10…

  • Building a progressive agenda in 1992 / Helen Caldicott.

    Speech by Dr. Helen Caldicott, spokesperson for political empowerment, economic conversion, saving the environment and nuclear disarmament. She compares two new world orders: President George Bush’s, and the people’s. The United States, she argues, is in need of a revolution like the one in the Soviet Union. She points to many problems with United States…

  • May day! May day! : an extended version / Helen Caldicott ; introduction by Vivienne Verdon-Roe.

    Speech by Helen Caldicott, who is introduced by Vivienne Verdon-Roe. Caldicott addresses the problems with the United States politics and economy, and how those factors are leading to the destruction of the world environment. She points to the April, 1992 uprising in Los Angeles as just the beginning of people rejecting the American “dream.” The…