Should kosher certification depend not only on how an animal is slaughtered but on how workers are treated? R & E reports from Iowa, where a kosher meat packing plant is owned and run by Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, and where authorities have uncovered evidence suggesting serious safety violations and child labor abuse by plant officials. Watch. (Originally aired: 10/3/2008).
NOW on PBS travels to New Mexico to see how the campaigns are hoping to attract—and secure—first-time voters on college campuses, as well as voters in New Mexico’s large Hispanic population. This southwestern state was won by fewer than 400 votes in 2000, and 6,000 votes in 2004. Watch. (Originally aired: 10/3/2008).
This year is the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, the 15-month operation that flew food and coal into Berlin during the Soviet blockade in 1948. Worldfocus.org reported from Teterboro, New Jersey during one of the celebrations–the German gov’t saluted the veterans who flew in 2.3 million tons of supplies. Watch now.
Authorities in India blame homegrown terrorists for bombings that have killed more than 150 people in that nation in recent months; A young activist from Hiroshima revives the memory of The Bomb; And will Israel elect a woman Prime Minister? Watch now.
For some veterans it takes years before they choose to speak about their war experiences. And some veterans never do. What happens when veterans finally share their stories? How does it feel to be heard? And how are we, as listeners, affected?
This Saturday, Reel 13 will air Conventioneers, the story of a Republican man who falls into a forbidden relationship with a Democratic woman. The stars — Matthew Mabe and Woodwyn Koons — discuss the film in a behind the scenes interview.
Despite losses in the 2006 elections, the Republican right remains a powerful force in American politics. In his book The Conservative Ascendancy, Donald Critchlow explores the anomaly of the Republican right’s anti-statist ideology. In Critchlow’s view, though today’s intensified partisanship can be unsettling, it reflects the vibrancy of a mature democracy and deepening political participation.
Charlie Rose sat down to speak with Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, for an hour about the current economic crisis and Buffett’s take on the situation. (Originally aired 10/1/2008.) Watch video now…
Richard Wood, President of the Japan Society, speaks with Martin Savidge about the tense history of Japan-North Korea relations and Japan’s fear of a nuclear North Korea. North Korea has fired test missiles over Japan in the past. Watch interview…
In 1910, an American doctor named Hawley Crippen was convicted in England of poisoning and dismembering his wife. The vicious murder—and execution—made international headlines. Almost one hundred years later, investigators re-opened the files. Watch episode….
