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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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How do homeless people avoid exposure to Covid-19? And where do they quarantine if they test positive for the virus? New York City’s Department of Homeless Services had little in place to deal with a pandemic and over 60,000 people remain in shelters struggling to quarantine. Mental Health Peer Specialist, EMT, and advocate for the homeless, Allilsa Fernandez, tells Laura how the shelter organizing movement is applying strategies like mutual aid to fill the gaps in the system. She says the...
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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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Kai Wright of ColorLines points out that part of the lesson from Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal's passage and the DREAM Act's near passage is that militant grassroots action is more effective than "inside" work. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Kai Wright of ColorLines explains the cycle of high-interest borrowing that poor people get caught up in after just a few payday loans. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Filmmaker Marco Amador explains that even when immigrants join the military and complete their years of service, there is no guarantee that they can remain in the U.S. or advance their position. 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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Public Citizen's Lori Wallach fills us in on the WTO--perhaps forgotten, but not gone. 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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In 2005, Surgeon General Richard Carmona called obesity "the terror within," and said "Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11." But public policy changes would be pointless, because "common-sense health decisions" can't legislated. Excuse me? First of all, my thighs are a bigger threat to this country than people who fly planes into skyscrapers? Marjorie Ingall is a columnist for Tablet magazine and co-author of Hungry, with...
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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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Phyllis Bennis notes that fear that letting Qaddafi win in Libya would destroy the "Arab spring" may wind up destroying the "Arab spring" with Western intervention. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Shannon Biggs explains that changing our view of nature from property to something with its own right to exist would change the way humans treat their environment. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Steve Cobble, founder of freespeechforpeople.org, responds to the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, and Obama's mention of it during the State of the Union. 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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Now some good news. The public option's alive and kicking -- it may not be what you dreamed of -- but it's worth a cheer that it's not plain dead. 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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OK, so I've been a feminist against marriage for as long as I can remember but I will if you will. 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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Live @ Noon: 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.
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We are gathered here because the so-called developed countries didn't meet their obligation of establishing substantial commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen," said Bolivian president Evo Morales at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Tami Woronoff and Jennifer Utz are in Cochabamba for the conference, and sent us this report from their conversations with activists, organizers, and representatives on the ground. GRITtv...
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For the past 20 years, the Bluestockings Bookstore & Activist Center has established itself as a hub of radical thought in New York City's Lower East Side. How can a space run collectively continue to serve an engaged and expanding world into the next 20 years and beyond? We spoke with two volunteers to learn more. Featured Guests: Madeleine Durante, Fundraising Director, Bluestockings Bookstore Joan Dark, Events Coordinator, Bluestockings Bookstore
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For 10 years, our show has beamed a light on the people, places, and movements who are making radical change and shifting power. Despite many changes, one thing has remained the same: Laura and the show's mission to use media as a tool for political, economic, and social transformation. But, making media takes time -- and millions. We're a small project, and we need viewer support to keep us fired up. Will you join? Will you give?
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In Los Angeles, the skies may be bluer thanks to the Covid-19 slow-down, but the impact of environmental racism on low income people of color persists. A recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health shows that where people have been exposed to even slightly higher levels of air pollution, the Covid-19 death rate is significantly higher. In this episode, Laura speaks with community organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice in East L.A....
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Renewable energy, racist redlining, and now possibly a renaissance. The people of Buffalo, New York have seen a lot. In the last century, this was a booming industrial town fueled by a falls and people from all over the planet. But most of the wealth concentrated at the top, and at the end it mostly moved out. It looks as if people and investment may be coming back, but will the wealth be more equitably shared? Grassroots activists are determined that this time will be different, and they're...
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Award winning Dalit technologist, journalist, and digital security activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan gets into the history of surveillance and how it has always been a mode of control over capital and labor.
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Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission points out that most people didn't agree with Bin Laden to begin with, but that his death could still have an impact--and she wonders whether two wars and ten years and thousands of lives were worth this. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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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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The latest front in the all-out war on abortion is once again South Dakota, which succeeded last week in passing a law that forces women seeking abortions to first get advice at "pregnancy help centers," otherwise known as "crisis pregnancy centers," which are not heath care centers, but rather places where anti-abortion counselors pressure pregnant women to carry to full term. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Malalai Joya says that Afghanistan's problems, corruption, insecurity, violence against women, are all rooted in the same place: the occupation, the warlords, the Taliban. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Live @ Noon: 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. Watch Full Shows: http://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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There's been a joke going around the labor protests. It goes something like this: A union member, a CEO and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO grabs 11, turns to the Tea Partier and says "The Union's out to take your cookie!" I've been thinking that the joke applies pretty well to another situation. For instance, the military. Our military spending grabs 11 cookies and leaves us all battling over the 12th. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Novelist and activist Walter Mosley discusses the problem with the media--and how corporate America gets us to work against one another when we have the same problems. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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The financial reform bill made it through the first Republican filibuster last week and is being debated and amended now on the Senate floor. Regulating Wall Street isn't easy, though, and economics journalist Zach Carter has noted that the proposed reforms are "pretty flimsy"--he uncovered a loophole that allows banks to continue to make illegal trades without punishment! Zach joins us via Skype from Virginia to discuss the financial reform bill and to explain in plain language just...
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Someone turns 65 every 8 seconds in this country, and as our elderly population grows, so does the need to build an economy around our future selves. In this episode, three leaders in the age justice movement share their ideas about how we can age with dignity, power, and change our society to reflect just that. Then, we visit the largest home care cooperative in the U.S. to take a look at age justice, and worker justice, in practice. Featured Guests: Alice Fisher Founder and Director, The...
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One of my books of essays was dedicated to those who have learned to divorce hope from reason," says author, Arundhati Roy. "I think it would be very very sad if we just looked around us and felt hopeless.
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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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With a new Republican Congress falling all over itself to hand corporations whatever they want, it was only a matter of time before some politician turned up in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, breathlessly describing the "dazzling" and "path-breaking" nature of the free market, and vowing to get rid of regulations that have placed "unreasonable" burdens on businesses. We just didn't think it would be Barack Obama. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clans tired old terror tactics? 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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Russell Brand mentioned it on Democracy Now and Laura Flanders posed the question to Prof. Chomsky himself. Full interview with Chomsky on The Laura Flanders Show on GRITtv in December.
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Baratunde Thurston is usually one of our favorite comedians, but even he couldn't bring himself to laugh at the ugly spectacle of a privileged white man like Donald Trump congratulating himself in front of news cameras for getting Barack Obama to produce a "long-form" birth certificate. Baratunde recorded his feelings about that statement, and what it says to millions of African-Americans. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Republicans might have dropped their filibuster and agreed to allow a debate on financial reform, but with the amount of money that Wall Street firms have sunk into both Republicans and Democrats, does it make a difference? And what kind of reform do we really need, anyway? Independent Senator Bernie Sanders joins us via Skype from Washington to tell us what he thinks about financial regulations, too-big-to-fail banks, and transparency at the Federal Reserve. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings...
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Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat discusses the pressures on writers under Haiti's Duvalier dictatorship while she was growing up. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Frances Fox Piven points out that the young voters, voters of color, and other unlikely voters put Barack Obama in the White House, and if they'd continued to be a movement perhaps he would have been a better president. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Gara LaMarche of the Atlantic Philanthropies says that one of the reasons the Left has lost is that the Right argues from larger moral narratives. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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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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Laurie Penny discusses the UK's antiterrorism laws and the way they may be used to break up student protests and prosecute the protesters. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Filmmaker Natalia Almada explains that when making her movie El General, she used the past and present enmeshed to understand both better. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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The Laura Flanders show streams from www.grittv.org. Columbia and UCLA law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw spoke on our State of Female Justice panel about the essentials of intersectionality to gender justice. Watch the entire panel on http://grittv.org/?video=state-of-female-justice-what-makes-you-rise-3
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Laura Gottesdiener, author of the book A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home came by GRITtv to talk about the effects of the housing crisis in which our country is still mired. Distributed by OneLoad.com
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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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Donald Trump just called off the much anticipated North Korean nuclear summit. Maybe not much of a surprise given the president's inner circle but Noam Chomsky says he should have just stepped back and taken credit as a peacemaker. Find out what he had to say about the state of nuclear geopolitics, international solidarity and more in our recent interview with the renowned linguist.
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Jaye Moon is an Asian American artist in New York who makes urban art on political themes. She has a mural up now at 50 Avenue A in honor of Stonewall 50. In bright colored Lego-type blocks she’s written out the script of 2017's hit film “Call Me by Your Name” in English Braille. Check out Jaye's other works: https://jayemoon.wixsite.com/minimal-artist
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the centuries-long war on Black bodies through systemic racism and police brutality. In this media roundtable—a collaboration between The Laura Flanders Show and URL Media—we take a different approach to Memorial Day. One that centers the work of BIPOC journalists from the front lines. How are they responding to the needs of their communities, and where...
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Plus, an F-word from Laura on how election night wins on the part of Democrats shouldn't conceal their internal fissures or the work being done by progressives.
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Learn more about The Laura Flanders Show and watch all our interviews at lauraflanders.com
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SUPPORT US. Become a member at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thelfshow Dana Brown, Director of the Next System Project frames the motives of privatized medicine in a system, which values profit over people. While nations are racing to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, how can the public gain ownership of big pharma? “We’re really in a situation now where we’ve got socialized risk and privatized benefit” says Brown. Watch more Covid-19 related videos at lauraflanders.org @theLFShow...
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Fran and David Korten, entrepreneurs, longtime anti-capitalist advocates for global economic justice, and married couple. They speak to us about their lifelong efforts to challenge the capitalist and privatizing schemes that have exacerbated global poverty and scarcity. They are "waking up at a very fundamental level to questions that have to do with the nature of life, with the nature of being human, with our human possibilities, and most fundamentally our relationship with a living...
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There’s something sick about U.S. Military spending. It’s certainly not keeping anyone safe. This week, why we the public spend billions on bad technology and what happens to service people who speak up about it. Then, a peace economy – what might it look like? I’ll talk to Jodie Evans of Code Pink. Featured Guests: Pam Campos-Palma, Former Intelligence Analyst, US Air Force Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies Andrew Cockburn, Washington Editor, Harper’s Magazine...
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Ben Jealous of the NAACP discusses what happened with Shirley Sherrod, what he learned from her, and the continuing fight against racism in the South. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Chris Hayes of The Nation talks about the benefits of putting the government in charge of health care--and why progressives need to build a better movement. 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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Activists Eve Ensler of V-Day and Rose Mapendo of Mapendo International discuss the way rape is used as a war crime in the Congo. 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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Life, liberty, happiness, environmental protection... you name it. It's all supposed to be worse in Europe, right? As Paul Krugman said on ABC this Sunday, "There are some seriously strange people running, thanks to the Tea Party..." And those who don't believe that Sharia law's already enshrined in Texas, tend to flog the notion that Barack Obama's just one vote away from turning tthe US into a dreaded European-style socialist state. Well here's the news from one such state -...
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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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Filmmaker Ken Bowser talks about Phil Ochs and his relationship with Chilean protest singer Victor Jara. You can see the full interview at http://www.grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Actress and writer Najla Said discusses the Arab characters she plays in the new play Prophecy, and why she was careful to ensure that they were two separate individuals with motivation. 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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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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Economist Richard Wolff explains that debt has been the way Americans paid for things over the last 30 years, and our economy is like a train heading into a wall. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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A top general appears in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee and what does he say? Well, it depends what you read, doesn't it? Read the New York Times, the Hill and most of the U.S. press and the general came out (as it were) for the first time, for a review of the Pentagon's Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy. Significant, newsworthy? Absolutely. But just as newsworthy were comments the General made about U.S./Israel relations. Comments which didn't make it into those papers. GRITtv with...
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The New York Times is finally calling it torture—when someone else has admitted to it. "At least someone is owning up to the awful legacy of Mr. Bush's illegal detention policies," their editorial concludes, after discussing the decision from the British government to compensate former detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The settlement payments could run over a million pounds in one case. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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The Obama administration is frustrated with the Pakistani government's inability to quell the Taliban. Who are the US to be frustrated? The answer to the frustration's apparently a stepping up of the pilotless drone campaign. The term CIA drone campaign has embedded itself in the coverage. You know the one -- this last month's been the heaviest for attacks -- and civilian deaths -- from drones. It's the war we haven't declared and only have tacit Pakistani approval to be waging. Distributed by...
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GRITtv Interview: Mark Meinster: Organizer United Electrical Workers
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A pandemic is no place to be a bystander, says Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. In this episode, Laura interviews Sarsour about her recently published memoir We are Not Here to Be Bystanders, which tells her story of growing up in Brooklyn and Palestine and becoming the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York and one of the co-chairs of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. Sarsour describes how Covid-19 is affecting her work, what contact tracing triggers for...
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A record level of evictions have created record levels of homelessness at a time when public health demands that as many people as possible stay home. What is to be done? In this episode, housing activists from Philadelphia share their experiences and insights from a long history of organizing that recently resulted in a landmark agreement with the...
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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has proclaimed April as Confederate Heritage Month, and many are protesting. Mississippi is the last state banner to feature confederate iconography, and the movement to change it has become a klaxon for the greater movement to take down Confederate symbols in America. Laura speaks with actress and activist Aunjanue Ellis about her organization Take It Down America, and why, for her, this movement is personal. Plus, another artist from Mississippi, Genesis Be,...
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Michael Hudson on how governments are forced into deficit; and how we pay through the expropriation of public goods.
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Huwaida Arraf of the Free Gaza Movement discusses the importance of books like Midnight on the Mavi Marmara to setting the record straight about what goes on in Gaza every day. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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According to the news, Afghanistan is "suddenly" worth one trillion dollars of mineral wealth and there is a hunt for the founder of WikiLeaks. Is this news though? Or is this a slow, carefully timed archaeological dig of the politics that shape the news? On one hand, there are documents from decades ago indicating that Afghanistan is rich in minerals that may have led to the United States fabricating reasons to "occupy" the land in the first place. On the other, these...
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