Biofuel Videos

Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was recently stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests after repeated complaints that he abuses power and uses racial profiling to target Latinos in his community. Salvador Reza, U.S. Air Force veteran, community organizer and renowned immigrants rights activist, joins Laura for an exclusive interview on Arpaio's ongoing abuses.Dennis Gilman brought us video footage from an Arpaio raid and from protests in Arizona, where white supremacist groups showed up to support Arpaio's policies.The National Book Awards were announced this week; Colum McCann was honored for his fiction work Let the Great World Spin: A Novel , and T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt won the nonfiction prize.

The Earth Island Institute created the annual Brower Youth Awards to honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Each winner is awarded $3000 and brought to San Francisco for the award week and a backcountry camping trip. Adarsha Shivakumar used his proceeds from winning a spelling bee to co-found a project growing sustainable jatropha, a plant that can be used as biofuel, in India. His work provides an ecologically friendly and economically profitable crop for farmers who would otherwise grow tobacco, a much more harmful plant. This video from Rikshaw Films shows the impact Adarsha and his project have had around the world.

GM reported its first-quarter earnings and ended up losing $6 billion. Chrysler had a terrible sales month in April and is now offering up to $6,000 in incentives. Lexus will debut a compact hatchback. All that and more, plus a look at the 2010 Cadillac SRX.