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Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasure, On today's show we try to make up for that and hear from some bloggers, activists and educators who are practicing very positive consent.
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In this episode, Laura interviews British comedian and activist Jess Thom about her performance of Samuel Beckett’s play “Not I”. Thom’s work reveals how neurodiversity makes theater, society—everything!— richer. SUPPORT US. Become a member at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thelfshow @theLFShow Twitter: twitter.com/theLFShow Facebook: facebook.com/theLFShow Instagram: instagram.com/theLFShow The Laura Flanders Show https://lauraflanders.org/ You can subscribe to our newsletter to...
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SUPPORT US. Become a Patron at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thelfshow Watch Full Episode (Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEdmFTxTMfA In this part of the episode, Laura talks with members of the Democracy Collaborative and California's Beneficial State Bank about how the model of solidarity economics they're learning about in Spain could be practiced in the United States. In Barcelona, Laura speaks with two of the coop experts leading the charge to...
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No matter how we tackle climate change, cities are key. They emit massive amounts of carbon and they're ground zero for the climate crisis. But could they also prove to be the sites of our best climate solutions? That's this week on The Laura Flanders Show. Featured Guests: Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center Mychal Johnson, Co-founder, South Bronx Unite Aurash Khawarzad, Artist, educator, and urban planner
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Images of unidentified men with military grade equipment brutally cracking down on peaceful protesters in Portland have many Americans worried the country is...
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Lisa Collins and Laura Flanders discuss one of their favorite films of the year, Coco Before Chanel. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be what’s happening now, but could it also be a bellwether of a different sort? Why is the reactionary backlash and the resistance to it that’s happening in Texas vital for the rest of the country? Our guests today say that their state could be a predictor of how 21st century change happens, when people organize differently. What do people who don't...
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In Nomi Prins' new book "Collusion," she reveals the collaboration between central bankers as they control global markets and dictate economic policy from Wall Street to Main Street.
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Dave Zirin points out that the reason Muhammad Ali is a global icon is what he sacrificed, not his success; Michael Jordan was successful and refused to speak out for a cause. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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What difference does a Party make? This week on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk about what's happening in the UK where one of the two main parties is picking up many of the radical demands coming out of movement groups seeking to transform the economy and society. In 2017, mainstream media predicted that the Labour Party would be crushed in the general election. Instead, it won its best result in 20 years, getting more than 40% of the vote under the leadership of life long socialist and...
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We must recognize that “pleasure is a measure of freedom,” that’s the first ambition writer, healer, and teacher adrienne maree brown has for her book and guide, “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good.” In our movements and communities, we’re constantly trying to find ways to measure liberation and freedom, and love seems like as good a yardstick as any. What would it look like to love without fear? adrienne has joined us on the show before to discuss organizing as science...
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Laura Flanders' show streams at www.grittv.org. In LA, February 6, Flanders hosted a live public event, bringing together women from the movements for racial, economic, environmental and media justice to discuss creating gender justice in our world. This State of Female Justice event is part of a series, developed by Flanders with V-Day and the African American Policy Forum. For more follow #StateOfFemaleJustice
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Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of The Assassination Complex, discusses the neocolonial implications of America's growing military footprint in Africa. Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/YdmF69uZc4U
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Self-driving cars, biased algorithms, and a social media quiz that scrapes your data -- it seems like the only tech headlines we have are about disasters. But what about the original promise of tech -- to innovate and empower? This week, Bex Hong Hurwitz, a Data & Society fellow and Rashida Richardson of the AI Now Institute, join me to discuss the subversive and democratic potential of technology, and how we harness it. Then, we talk to Kayleigh Walsh from the UK-based tech cooperative...
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1980’s Art – turbulent and provocative – arose out of the AIDS epidemic. Two major art exhibits on view in New York City – one universally-acclaimed a must-see, the other overwhelmingly-anticipated: Peter Hujar: Speed of Life (Morgan, through May 20) and David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night (Whitney, July 13 – Sept 30). The artists’ lives were singular and intertwined: personal and political, formal and furious, playful and profane. What do this Art and the lives...
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Some of us have too much of this world’s goods... and we are thereby separated too widely from each other," wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of Blanche Wiesen Cook's three-volume biography. For Women's History Month, Laura speaks to Cook about Eleanor - the First Lady of the World - and why her work still resonates. Plus, a documentary by filmmaker Ross Watne on Arthurdale, the experimental, government-funded community Roosevelt championed in...
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On March 8 2018, poor, working, disabled and chronically ill, trans, indigenous, Black, immigrant, refugee, Muslim, sex workers, women of color, are just some of the many women who will convene to call for systemic and culture change. They will strike for an end to the neocolonial and neoliberal police state. Because solidarity is our weapon, we stand with them. In 2018, we not only recognize and celebrate the victories and accomplishments of women across the globe, we demand action. The...
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Fatima Bhutto, author of the new memoir Songs of Blood and Sword, explains the effect the U.S. has had on the devastation in Pakistan--caused by flooding and by drone strikes. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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In the run up to this country's looming elections, a lot of people of feeling wistful for progressive leaders who will fight for their voters and better than that -- win. While Barack Obama was on Comedy Central, uttering the cringe-worthy phrase "Yes we can, but...", in Argentina and around the world, people were mourning a man whose epitaph could well read "He did. No ifs, ands or buts about it." Distributed by Tubemogul.
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What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant-garde filmmaker and cinema studies professor Su Friedrich about the hidden sheroes of film editing, the names you don’t know but ought to know from Hollywood to Bollywood and beyond. Aside from Blanche Sewell, the editor of The Wizard of Oz, and Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese’s editor for over fifty years, there is Renu Saluja, who edited many classics of...
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Urvashi Vaid, longtime LGBT rights activists, notes that the failure of the feminist movement to move beyond formal equality is a lesson that can be learned for an intersectional movement to redefine gender in the U.S. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Kimberle Crenshaw discusses Susan Burton's nomination as a CNN hero and why it's important to have an avenue to discuss the consequences of our prison system. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Corrine Carey of the New York Civil Liberties Union notes that teenagers are having sex, and that without access to medical treatment, studies have shown that they don't stop having sex--they just stop seeking care. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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Susan Miller explains that she didn't intend popular Web series "Anyone But Me" to be a political show, but that it came out of a particular moment and community. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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On April 30th, a CSX train transporting oil derailed outside of Lynchburg, Virginia, sending flames shooting 80 feet into the air and coating the town in a thick, black smoke. It wasn't just any oil that the train was carrying. It was Bakken oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota and Montana. Although crude oil spills are routine, and rarely destructive, the four instances of Bakken oil spills that have occurred in the past year have caused deaths, injuries and evacuations across North...
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, author and scholar Imani Perry makes the compelling argument that Americans need to stop dismissing the South if they’re ever going to build an equitable future for the entire United States. She takes us on a trip through the region, delving into the complex realities that exist beneath the...
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How do we put self-empowerment at the center of schools?" We visit Ember Charter Schools for Mindful Education, a culturally-responsive school in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant. With over 40 nations represented, Ember is an institution seeking to validate intersectional experience and diversity in the diaspora, while supporting self-empowerment from Black and Latinx children -- as they say. They are responding to the problem of "chains," by practicing human development through...
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Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of The Assassination Complex, discusses the role that U.S. corporations play in targeted assassination programs abroad. Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/YdmF69uZc4U
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The Laura Flanders show streams from www.grittv.org. Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin has advanced an environmental justice agenda throughout her term, including but not limited to suing Chevron for the damage done to the Richmond community from the 2012 refinery fire. She joins GRITtv and VDay for the State of Female Justice. Watch the entire panel at http://grittv.org/?video=state-of-female-justice-what-makes-you-rise-3
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Nation Washington editor Chris Hayes explains that Rand Paul, like campus Marxists, comes from a small, ideologically self-sealed community. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.
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In the 80s, before she directed Hollywood comedies like Half Baked and Billy Madison, Tamra Davis shot hours of footage of her friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The young artist went on to international stardom before dying of a heroin overdose at age 27, and Davis went on to Hollywood. Here, she reminds us to remember the man, and more importantly the art, behind the celebrity. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Robert McChesney points out that the success of cable news is based not on journalism but on punditry, and if journalism dies, there will still be cable news--it will just be based off public relations. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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Watch Full Shows: http://grittv.org Grit TV with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Live @ Noon: http://grittv.org
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Sociologist and author Lisa Dodson talks about the day-to-day struggles of the working class in the U.S. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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With the United States facing the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Paulson is looking to tax-payers to provide a massive bailout of the very financial institutions responsible for fueling the crisis in the first place. The plan appears to be a bail out of Wall Street, more YOYO (you're on your own) economics for Main Street. Socialization of debt, while maintaining privatized profit. So what do the candidates have on offer? Will Obama, the candidate of...
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together. She shows how inequality saps the economy, hierarchies damage public health, and short term greed wreaks havoc on the ecosystem. We also take a close look at The American Rescue Plan, which breaks with much of the bipartisan consensus of recent decades and represents a historic step forward for a newly effective...
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Black history month and women's history month are all year! We visit Women's March NYC's inaugural "daring discussions" event at Verso Books to take a look at how Black women have been, and are, on the frontline of building our movements for equity and liberation. Part of an event discussing Black women's historic contribution to movements for social justice, the panelists take a look at some criticisms of the Women's March and how the organization will create dialogue around these...
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through the deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the infamous state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia and visit with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama to consider how our society’s mental and political health relate to history. Segrest’s newest book is “Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville...
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Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of The Assassination Complex, argues that the U.S has adopted the Israeli assassination program. Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/YdmF69uZc4U
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Forty-six years ago this week, the modern LGBT movement was born in a riot in the West Village of New York City. On this episode, Laura interviews author and law professor Dean Spade on poverty, prisons, and the new transgender civil rights movement. And later in the show, an exclusive preview from Dean Spade's new film about pinkwashing - The act of using support for LGBT issues to cover up other human rights abuses. All this, and Laura commemorates the loss of social justice fighter Ricky...
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Retired colonel Andrew Bacevich says that Obama has surrounded himself with problem-solvers and has yet to propose real creative thinking about US foreign policy and military might. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual ceasefire but not before displacing millions and damaging the air, water and land of what was known as the bread basket for the world. This week, we’ve assembled a roundtable of human rights advocates from Ukraine, Russia & the United States to discuss the ongoing conflict and who highlight models of local resistance and support. Our guests have been working for democracy in Ukraine, Russia, and the US for years and...
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Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Middle East correspondent, points out everything that Americans have forgotten about our own connections to Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Ethan McCord, Iraq veteran and the soldier seen in the WikiLeaks video rescuing Iraqi children, notes that the one thing he couldn't live without at war was his own humanity, his own sense of what's right. Watch the whole interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Frank Schaeffer, author of Patience with God, comments on the racist undertones of the opposition to Obama. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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If we cannot convince Qaddafi to stop engaging in violence against his people, we must act," says Rev. Jesse Jackson of the current situation in Libya. Jackson went to Libya in 1984 to protest Reagan's bombing. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul
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Former US military interrogator Matthew Alexander explains the connections between Omar Suleiman, Egyptian prisons, the Muslim Brotherhood, and terrorism. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Brian Jones, teacher, actor and activist, talks about the way Howard Zinn's view on history helped him teach and reach the elementary school children he works with. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were in the mix? In a country where 131 million people voted in the 2008 presidential election, a few million more voters sprinkled across the states, just might make a difference. In a handful of swing states, voting rights groups have sued and won...
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Mark Pocan (D-WI 2nd District), also co-chair of Dems' Progressive Caucus and Eduardo Maura, spokesperson of Spanish political party, Podemos, on where a populist progressive vision can take us, even in repressive times.
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Former U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. General Sanchez says that as long as we are unleashing the brutality of people in war, we will have issues like the question of torture. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.
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The Senate and the House of Representatives agree: single-payer health care is the only way to provide real coverage for all. Insurance companies are never going to do the right thing and put people before profits, so the only option is to go around them, and politicians in both houses have voted to create a real health care system. In Vermont, that is. Mary Gerisch of the Vermont Workers Center joined us last month here on GRITtv to explain the grassroots organizing campaign that finally...
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This week, the news hit that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, perhaps best known for his Angels in America, was being blocked from receiving an honorary degree from the City University of New York because of his views on Israel. Kushner, who also has an honorary degree from Brandeis University, told Salon's Justin Elliott that this was an "unprecedented and pretty ugly experience." Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Obama's punching below his weight class again. That was Gary Younge's metaphor, a boxing analogy that makes more sense if you consider the weight a politician carries to be the support for their policies around the country. Obama won office in the midst of economic meltdown, with applause lines about doing away with Bush tax cuts for the rich, about ending a destructive war, about universal healthcare. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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She's the one. Give her some. Under fire. Smoking gun. Of which songs are sung, raps are spun, bells are rung, rocked, pistols cocked, unwanted advances blocked, well stacked she's jock. It's all about you girl. You go on. Don't you dare stop. Tracie Morris is a poet and contributor to Bob Holman's United States of Poetry. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Laura Flanders' show streams at GRITtv.org. 40 years after the Nixon-administration backed coup in Chile, photographer Paula Allen and Victoria Saavedra Gonzalez whose 17 year old brother was "disappeared", describe the search for justice. Distributed by OneLoad.com
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Clay Shirky spoke with GRITtv about the way everyday citizens can use the same technology that brings us videos of a kitten on a treadmill to achieve results that strengthen and spread democracy and engagement around the world. (Part 2 of 3) GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. www.grittv.org
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Grit TV with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka says that union members are on board around the world, coordinating a response to the attack not just on them, but on immigrants, voting rights, academic freedom and more. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, explains that the beginning of organizing among the jobless is a sign of hope for a country that has no significant progressive movement. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What has been the media’s role and have they done enough to make amends? We’ll talk to Lynn Paltrow, one of the lawyers representing incarcerated women, media critic Janine Jackson, and Suzanne Sellers who fell afoul of one of those laws in the 1990s. Then, a drill down with Lynn Paltrow about the threats to Roe and more.
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Downballot victories in the 2020 November elections gave a fresh class of movement organizers across the country a seat at the national level. Incoming Congress members Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman among others represent the rising trend of activists of color who intersect with elected office. In this extended interview, Laura speaks with longtime organizer and U.S. Representative Karen Bass to discuss this growing trend and shares her experience from the January 06 Capitol insurrection and what...
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Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where Latinx farm workers are able to buy their own land. In the United States, 83 percen...
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They've awakened a sleeping giant. People who have never been engaged are engaged," Lena Taylor, Wisconsin state representative, told Laura Flanders from the streets of Madison. "900 million dollars, almost a billion dollars, out of education. How can we be prepared for our future?" Distributed by Tubemogul
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Is it time to rethink our use of nuclear power in the U.S.? Leo Gerard of United Steelworkers discusses. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Reginald Keys, who challenged Tony Blair for Parliament in 2005, explains the inquiry in England into the start of the Iraq War. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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Q'orianka Kilcher, actress and activist, talks about her role in Howard Zinn's The People Speak. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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What do the threat to Takism Square, Google Glass, the Trans Pacific Partnership and the NSA spying scandal have in common? Find out in the full interview at GRITtv.org.
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GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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It's a matter of political will and a moral question: do you see the rest of the world as your brothers and sisters or not?" says food writer and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food. Distributed by Tubemogul
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Maggie Mahar and Luke Mitchell explain the problems with the health care reform compromise. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org
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Jeanne Theoharis, along with actor Kathleen Chalfant and actor, playwright and author Wallace Shawn of Theaters Against War, joins us to talk about Fahad's case, free speech and why we need to speak up for people like Fahad.
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