learned nothing. >> bill moyers: why? >> gretchen morgenson: you know, i was shocked, bill, when after the crisis, wall street and the large banks continued their lobbying efforts unstopped, right? they didn't even hide in their trenches for one minute after pushing the nation's economy to the brink. and that to me was, it seemed like evidence of, there was just no shame. no shame at all in, among these people that had really created this problem and this crisis. and they were given slack. they were, you know, allowed to stay in their jobs. they weren't removed. they weren't jailed. they weren't penalized. and so that's the disconnect that i think we really, i was shocked by. >> bill moyers: speaking of putting the taxpayer on the hook. now, you know, i like my apple products and i'm sure everybody listening has something kind to say about how technology and apple in particular has helped their own situation. however, when i watched those hearings this week, i thought, when apple is avoiding all the taxes they're paying on

and the-- >> bill moyers: with republicans?>> madeline janis: with republicans. >> bill moyers: with people who might be voting for romney? >> madeline janis: yes. people were so incredibly energized about winning. and then, you know, january 1, 2000, people and their families got this enormous raise and paid sick days. so then we organized the state of the city for long beach. and, you know, we had overflow crowds from every neighborhood. >> bill moyers: you organized what? >> madeline janis: we called it a state of the city. people's state of the city. and we had, you know, hundreds of people. every single person running for office, every person currently in office in long beach all came. and we were able to articulate this broader agenda, with, you know, all of the things that regular people care about. but it came off of the win, the fact that you, people said, "wow, 63% of the people are with us." >> bill moyers: i read that you did a story based strategy with homeowners facing foreclosure, that you're doing it in 11 citie

tried to learn, to teach, to do, to practice is how to be that kind of a learner and teacher. >> bill moyers marshall ganz, i look forward to the next chapter of the story. thank you for sharing your time and ideas with me. >> marshall ganz: thank you, bill. thank you very much. >> bill moyers: "if not now, when?" answering that question committed citizens are taking lessons learned from marshall ganz's long career of organizing and activism and putting them to work. with me are two women from opposite sides of the country who are leading the way. madeline janis is co-founder and national policy director of laane, the "los angeles alliance for a new economy." the organization was created after the l.a. riots of 1992 and has helped lift tens of thousands of people from poverty, creating, quote, "good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment." madeline janis led the campaign to pass a living wage ordinance in los angeles, she worked with that city's community redevelopment agency and has advised community organizations and unions all over america. here in new york, rachel laforest

. >> bill moyers: this week on "moyers and company --" >> gretchen morgenson: i would like to know if apple's lobbyists had anything to do creating the loopholes and rules they're now benefiting from. >> bill moyers: and -- >> tim dechristopher: civil disobedience is always a criticism of the existing power structure. and it's always been that way. that's the role of civil disobedience -- it's a role of dissent. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of

. >> bill moyers: this week on moyers & company. >> marshall ganz: an organizer starts by asking not, "what's my issue?" but "who are my people?" 'cause organizing is about people. and then what's the challenge they face? and then how can they use their resources to address that challenge? >> bill moyers: and -- >> rachel laforest: small victories aggregate to this larger sort of beating heart and people feeling deeply inspired by each other. but it takes work. >> madeline janis: everybody deserves a good job and a decent life. and that our government, our democracy has the tools to ensure that. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. indepennt

now that i've come full circle bill moyer said why don't you do a series, pbs series on world religion. it's been a happy homecoming. >> we're taking photographs from your illustrated version of that with mr. moyers. let's take one from buddhism. >> this is my tray of buddha. this is a wooden image and it is an image of the coming buddha which is a counterpart to the second coming of coming of christ. >> let's go to dow women that.'s where you grew up. >> that's like this dancing sheva. this dancing ying yang now belongs to the world. china says one can learn more from gazing at that image than from reading a thousand books. what it does is take the opposites of life, good and evil, light and dark, sickness and health and show there is no razor sharp division but note the way in which each sort of meanders into the other domain and takes up its citadel in the heart of its opposite. very quickly, let me tell you a story that goes to the heart of this. it's a farmer and his horse t.neighbor says who knows what's good or bad. the horse came back with a drove of wild horses. so the neighbo

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there's this introduction by bill moyers, and the silenced majority: stories of uprising, occupationsare the weekly interviews, um, that we do on democracy now and taking one story each week and sort of making that, bringing that out so it'll be published in newspapers around the country. there are, there's so much to coverment in that week of the tenth -- cover. many that week of the tenth anniversary of iraq, we interviewed thomas young. now, thomas is a young soldier who went to iraq, and he wasn't there five days before he was in sadr city in baghdad, and it was april 4, 2004, the same day that casey sheehan die inside sadr city. he was is the son of cindy sheehan, she set up the camp outside bush's ranch in texas. but thomas was shot, um, and he was paralyzed from the february february -- from the neck down. came back to the united states, and, um, he started speaking out against war after he was somewhat rehabilitated. but then he threw a pulmonary embolism a few years ago, and his physical health started to deteriorate. and he is now making a decision -- we sent a camera crew i