The Angry Mermaid Award has been set up to recognise the perverse role of corporate lobbyists, and highlight those business groups and companies that have made the greatest effort to sabotage the [Copenhagen] climate talks, and other climate measures, while promoting, often profitable, false solutions.

Renowned historian Howard Zinn has chronicled centuries of people's struggles against oppression. He joins Bill Moyers to discuss the voices of today's people -- facing big interests' outsized influence -- and his new film The People Speak.