Solution Zone - Burning in Bangladesh - 11/28/12




Solution Zone show

Summary: TOPIC #1: BANGLADESH FACTORY BURNS AS WAL MART PROFITS ROLL IN Guest: Stephanie Luce - Associate Professor of labor Studies at The Murphy Institute and City University, New York With more than 120 dead in a Bangladesh factory fire where Wal Mart clothing was manufactured, the conditions for garment workers are dangerous, demeaning and brutal, yet workers repeated demands for better pay and safe working conditions have been largely ignored.. and  the profits for the Monopoly Corporations keep rolling in.  Can public outrage combat corporate greed and help change working conditions there? TOPIC #2: PROJECT CENSORED - THE STORIES THE CORPORATE MEDIA DOESN’T COVER Guest: Andy Roth Ph.D - Associate Director - Project Censored Project Censored - a non profit - News/Watchdog and Teaching organization supports and highlights those journalists who tell the truth about the powerful (no matter the consequences) and are relentless in their quest to hold Big Media accountable for their decisions