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What's Behind the Dollar?
Money - where does it come from? Money expert James Bernard Quilligan, Executive Director of the Center for Global Negotiations, describes where U.S. money comes from, and why, even today, all U.S. money comes from the private Federal Reserve Bank, not from the U.S. Treasury. The U.S. currency is to backed only by debt, but this was not always so!
Find out where all that money comes from, with author Krista Keenan.
The Commons: What We Share
- commons
- adjustment
- citizen
- co-governance
- co-production
- collective
- commons
- Community
- Context
- convergence
- converging
- corruption
- distributive
- election
- global
- governance
- governing
- government
- great
- group
- injustice
- interests
- justice
- law
- Natural
- organize
- organizing
- politics
- property
- rules
- share
- shared
- shared interests
- sharing
- shift
- sovereign
- sovereignty
- transition
- turning
- United
Prerna Means Inspiration
Prerna Girls School is a part of the Study Hall School in Lucknow, India. It serves the largely impoverished girl children of the surrounding slums, by providing educations to 540 girls from kindergarten through 12th grade (as of June 2010). Founded by Dr. Urvashi Sahni, herself a dynamic force of nature, Prerna is one of those places that show a good future can become a reality.
The astounding success of the Prerna Girls School program is a lesson to many others working for education, women's empowerment and solving a host of issues identified in the Millennium Development Goals as critical: health, education, poverty eradication, literacy, population pressure, environmental degradation, to name a few.
10-Year Old Felix: Plant for the Planet Campaign (Deutsch with subtitles)
The amazing 10-year-old Felix Finkbeiner articulates his wishes for "Plant for the Planet" the campaign to plant trees - a United Nations-sponsored program that has become an overwhelming success.
In German, with English subtitles.
Healing Rwanda: Jean Paul Samputu and the Forgiveness of Murder
AfroPop Star Singer Jean Paul Samputu speaks of the forgiveness that is healing Rwanda, as neighbors re-discover that they can live together.
Mizero Children was founded by Jean Paul to help heal the 1,000,000 orphans of Rwanda from the genocide, HIV/AIDS - children who can help restore a nation.
Trash Beach
From toys, to shampoo bottles, to bread wrappers, to car parts, to our shoes and clothes, plastic is everywhere!
But what happens to all that plastic when we are done with it? Where does it end up? People have said that 90% of plastic ever produced is still around today. See the unexpected place Pierre has found our plastic leftovers.
Ending Gun Violence: The Legs Against Arms Race 2007
In Philadelphia, the problem of gun violence by young people is taking a terrible toll.
The Philadelphia chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, led by Pat Harner, decided they had to take action. On April 15th 2007, A Nore'easter storm hit Philadelphia...and the race went on anyway - the problem is too severe to let a little rain interfere.
When you hear the poems of the young people bruised by gun violence, you'll know the reasons why everybody wants a solution...
We've Experienced Enough: Damon Roberts and South Philly
Too many homicides. Too many dropouts. Too much trash. These are all minimum, basic issues that good government must address. The Second Council District of Philadelphia in the USA has too many of all these, and that is why Damon Roberts is running for City Council.
He moved his entire family INTO one of the toughest parts of Philadelphia to make a difference for people. Find out what real leadership looks like. Find out why real leaders live in the district, care for their people, and speak out about the real issues.
From Forgiveness to Activism: How Michael Berg Lost His Son to Revenge in Iraq Then Found His Voice for Peace
Peace activist Michael Berg's story of the horrific murder of his son, and his personal transformation thereafter into an activist using nonviolent peaceful protest against the war in Iraq.
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 3/11/2007 Language: English Run Time: 23 min. 0 sec. Story Level 3 = 12+ years of age
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
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