INDUSTRY AND LABOR

  • Democracy Now! February 24, 1999

    Sentencing Phase of Jasper Trial Begins; Chevron Linked to Violence in Nigeria; Nigeria Human Rights Watch |Sentencing Phase of Jasper Trial Begins After a week of hearing gruesome testimony and examining grisly evidence, it took a Texas jury of 10 whites and one African American less than three hours to find John William King, an…

  • Democracy Now! February 25, 1999

    Jasper Trial; U.N. Seeks Retrial of American in Peruvian Prison; L.A. Eight Face Deportation; Levi Strauss Moves Plant Overseas |Jasper Trial An update on the sentencing phase of the murder trial of John William King, a white supremacist convicted of the capital murder of an African-American man (James Byrd, Jr.). GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, reporter for…

  • Democracy Now! January 28, 1999

    East Timor; Caesar Chavez Induction into Labor Hall of Fame |(34 Minutes) East Timor Bowing to international pressure, the Indonesian military has retreated for the first time in 23 years from its hard-line stance on Indonesia’s continued occupation of East Timor. After a prolonged meeting with Prsident B.J. Habibie and his cabinet, Foreign Minister Ali…

  • Democracy Now! February 11, 1999

    Chevron Under Fire; Sweatshop Reports |(23 Minutes) Chevron Under Fire The recent wave of repression and violence by the Nigerian military in the Niger Delta that has left scores of villagers dead has sparked worldwide attention. So has the role of oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell and the US multinational Chevron in the…

  • Democracy Now! February 16, 1999

    American Airlines Sick-out; Violent Crime and Native Americans; Kurdish Rebel Leader Arrested |American Airlines Sick-out Most pilots with American Airlines have returned to work after a 10-day massive sick-out to protest the two-tiered pay scale imposed by the airline after it bought Reno Air, a smaller airline. After canceling 12% of its flights yesterday, American…

  • Richard Grossman

    Richard Grossman is the Director of the Program of Corporation, Law and Democracy, an organization established in 1993 to hold corporations accountable for their policy decisions which effects all aspects of our lives including our labor, civil rights and our environment. He is now most identified witht he movement to revoke the corporate charters of…

  • Democracy Now! October 13, 1998

    Activists Plan to Sue Chevron; Africans in America |(33 Minutes) Activists Plan to Sue Chevron Lawyers for Nigerian Himan rights activists are preparing to file a lawsuit in the US afainst Chevron Corporation, alleging that the US oil giant was complicit in the deaths of two protesters who were killed on a Cheron oil barge…

  • Democracy Now! October 15, 1998

    Police Beat Earth First Protesters in Minneapolis: Noam Chomsky on World Economy |(4 Minutes) Police Beat Earth First Protesters in Minneapolis Activists from Earth First and the american Indian Movement have joined with residents in a Minneapolis neighborhood to fight the construction of a highway to the mall of America, the larges mall in the…

  • Democracy Now! September 30, 1998

    Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship |(50 Minutes) Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship Expose’ on the role of the San Francisco oil giant in the killing of two Nigerian activists.

  • Democracy Now! October 1, 1998

    All Things Censored; Nigeria; War in the Delta |(4 Minutes) All Things Censored In Pennsylvania , the regulation that bans media visits to prisoners has been dubbed the Mumia rule. Democracy Now is continuing series in support of Free Speech titled All Things Censored. GUEST: Dorothy Allison, author of BOOK: BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA. (10…