Wall Street and Workers

Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

Airdate: Friday, June 15, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS.
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html.)

Andy Stern, president of the fastest-growing union in the nation, delivers his take on what big corporate buyouts on Wall Street mean for America's workers.

On Wall Street, private equity firms are buying up corporations and turning them around for huge profits. What does it mean for America's workers and for the economic gap between average families and the wealthiest Americans? Andrew Stern, president of Service Employees International Union - the fastest-growing union in the nation - weighs in. Also on the program, Bill Moyers interviews writer, activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs, who has taken part in some of the seminal civil rights struggles in US history, about her belief that real change for democracy will come from the grassroots. "We're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country," she says. "We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make ... in order to force the government to do differently."

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