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Anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva: ‘Find the right thing to do. That is your duty.’
This week on “Moyers and Company,” host Bill Moyers welcomed scientist, philosopher and activist Vandana Shiva, who, in his words, has become “a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds.” Shiva was trained as a physicist, but has become an outspoken voice against the predations of giant…
Bill Moyers asks activists: Is Labor a lost cause?
Last week, as Americans focused on the Supreme Court’s rulings on the Affordable Care Act and Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law, a “disturbing” decision got lost in the shuffle. Knox v. Service Employees International Union [SEIU], Local 1000 restricts the financial power of organized labor by restricting union dues used for…
Moyers to Americans: Read the Declaration of Independence this July 4
This week on “Moyers and Company,” host Bill Moyers reminded us that July 4 is approaching and asked Americans to take the time this year to read one of our nation’s founding documents. The moment Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence, messengers on horseback were dispatched to all 13 colonies…
Black historian: Both blacks and whites avoid facing contraditions in society
In a blistering Independence Day weekend interview with PBS’s Bill Moyers, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad dissected the contradictions between the American belief in equality and freedom and its actual treatment of its own citizens. Muhammad, who is the head of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in…
PBS/NPR become annoying beggars
Start with PBS, and NPR. I’m a guy who loves good nonprofit public television, and radio, and I’m herewith disgusted with it. PBS has its Masterpiece series, its documentaries; it has Bill Moyers and those beloved British comedies; NPR has great shows like Fresh Air and Prairie Home Companion and…
Moyers guest: U.S. is looking at immigration from the wrong direction
Author Luis Alberto Urrea was Bill Moyers’s guest on this week’s edition of “Moyers and Company.” Urrea has dedicated his life to telling the stories of the people who live along the 1,969 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and “Anglo”…
Moyers guest: Big money’s influence in DC ‘outrageous, offensive and corrosive of democracy’
On Friday, April 27, Bill Moyers welcomed Marty Kaplan to “Moyers and Company” to talk about the influence of big money in politics and how it has resulted in what Kaplan calls a “Disney World of Democracy.” Kaplan would know, as the former Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication…
Writer Eric Alterman tells Moyers liberals need to regain ‘fighting spirit’
Writer and historian Eric Alterman appeared on the April 20 edition of “Moyers and Company” to discuss his new book The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. In a wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion, Alterman makes the case to Bill Moyers that while social liberalism…
Bill Moyers and Angela Glover Blackwell discuss ‘Occupy,’ race and the American Dream
The latest episode of Moyers & Company featured an interesting discussion between Moyers and activist Angela Glover Blackwell. Blackwell is a “national leader for social justice and equity” and is the author of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future. During the exchange, the two discussed the “Occupy” movement, social…
Moyers guest: Ordinary people are the world’s only hope
Former diplomat Carne Ross believes that the Occupy movement and the power of ordinary people taking action can change the course of history and break the grip in which the wealthiest and most powerful 1 percent hold major world governments. On this week’s “Moyers and Company” with Bill Moyers, Ross…
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