From where rena is going to dive in and the starting point of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse and violence which we all suffer. It is evident in the financial crisis and the bp blow up and spill and numerous foot safety disasters that kill people from the new england compounding scandal, and workplace issues that rise across the country on a daily bases and more. You can step back saying we as a country dont do a good job with these problems because one marker is they persist over a period of time. We have a way of setting rules for corporations. You can fought imperil human life, threaten the environment, no you cant rip us off we dont do a good job enforcing the rules. We have to have inspectors looking at factories, supervisors to look at banks and we are not doing a good job funding those positions and they dont get enough support from the top to do such. When we do find violations, the hue is what do we do with companies that
Everybody, thanks for joining us, i am robert weissman, president of Public Citizens. We are here for a conversation about Rena Steinzors nuke wonderful book why not jail industrial companies, corporate malfeasance, and government inactio inaction, Rena Steinzor will speak for about half an hour and then Russel Mokhiber and i will talk about Rena Steinzors book and her remarks and we will open it up for discussion. The first step before we dive in, the starting point of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence which we all suffer. Is evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, above bp oil spill, worst environmental disaster in the nations history arguably, numerous food safety crises and disasters to kill dozens routinely, new england, pounding pharmacy scandal, Workplace Safety and health issues, work places across the country on a daily basis and much more and you have to step back and say we as a count
Major changes at Rutgers University tonight. Two athletic leaders fired after a season plagued by arrests, violations, and embarrassment. But first absolutely devastating. A deadly crash claims three lives in new jersey. Two dedicated friendly workers and a charismatic young man. Tonight their friends and family share their heartache over this tragedy. Hello everyone, im joe torres. Im sandra back man. A van was taking workers home when it lost control and slammed into a car and a truck towing a cattle trailer. The side of i287 in bernards township. The driver of the car was killed. Police have not yet identified the two workers who were kid. We talked to family and friends of the victims. Reporter joe and sandra, this is where several of the victims are recovering from what officials are saying are non life threatening injuries. There are a dozen victims what are injured but for three others they were not as lucky, killed in this horrific accident. For those who were close to those vi
May be to step back, the starting point of the conversation is to recognize that our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse and violence which we all suffer its evident in the financial crash of cost the country 22 million in the blowup in the oil spill in the environmental disaster in the nations history nations history arguably and numerous food safety crises and disasters that kill dozens routinely in the new england compound scandal in Workplace Safety and Health Issues that rise on a dalia basis and much more. We have to step back and say we dont do a very good job of dealing with these problems and one marker of that is if they persist over a long period of time we have an issue about how we set the rules for what is permissible for corporations to do when we say no you cant compare all human life and know no you cant threaten the environment. We have to make sure the rules are being followed, supervisors look at the think tank sure they are following the rule and it t
Who was sort of the artist, and sort of the oppositions between this man, and this tyrant niro and how he tried to survive in that time period while being on the on the other hand a. Senior adviser to nero and it was a very tricky business. A great piece of roman history. A very easy and great reading. So thats my Summer Reading for now and i hope to be back next year with an equal number of recommendations. Book tv wants to know what you are reading this summer. Post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. And now in book tv rinna rrvecion Rena Steinzor. Everybody thank you for joining us. Im president of Public Citizen. Here here for a conversation about Rena Steinzor about why not jail. Rena is going to talk and i will have some comments ond renas books and remarks and we will open it up for a discussion. I think maybe for a step back from where rena is going to dive it, recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse and violence from which we all suffer. Its