Streaming 6/20/11. How Green Was Our Valley
The oscar for best picture of 1941 went to a film entitled How Green Was My Valley. It told the story of the disintegration of a Welsh coal-mining town through the eyes of the youngest boy of one of the town’s families. Driven by the greed of profits, the owners of the mine hire cheap labor so that one-by-one older and better workers lose their jobs. The young boy sees his brothers go off to foreign lands to seek employment, his father killed by the unsafe mining practices of the day, and eventually his green and happy valley turned into a dirty, miserable slag heap.
Had the film been produced today, it could not any better describe the economic realities facing American workers as millions of jobs flee the nation and economic recovery, so to speak, occurs without gains in employment. In this important radio broadcast, Dr. Porter discusses the deliberate engineering of America’s rise in unemployment and offers a way in which the trend might be stopped and reversed.
http://webtalkradio.net/shows/preserving-amerca/ is your link to listen.
