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S2015 E21 Spanish tenants take on Wall Street landlords

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Sí, se puede. Yes we can. That is the battle cry of Spaniards evicted from their homes by their Wall Street landlords. A number of US private equity firms have been buying regional governments' stocks of public housing at distress prices, and then disproportionately raising rents. When tenants can't pay up, they are evicted, often saddled with debt. We'll speak to evictees who are fighting back.

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2015/02/17 S2015 E20

Ethiopia's media war

Ethiopia's jailed Zone 9 bloggers are on trial this week for terrorism and treason, charges facing more than two dozen journalists, bloggers and publishers. To avoid arrest, 30 journalists fled the country in the past year. The government says they're criminals, destabilising Ethiopia's fragile democracy in the name of "press freedom." Rights groups say they're victims of repression

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2015/02/19 S2015 E22

Whitewashing Hollywood

Must Superman, James Bond and the Storm Troopers be white? According to a 2014 UCLA study, only ten per cent of film leads were given to diverse actors. The issue was recently highlighted after all acting nominees for the 2015 Academy Awards happened to be white. Why the lack of diversity, and who's trying to change the status quo?

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S2015

2014-04-30

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