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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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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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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election officials in several key states stood between Donald Trump and the overturning of the 2020 elections. While the insurrection unfolded, many Americans watched in shock, believing nothing like this had ever happened in United States history. But it has happened before — more than a century ago in Wilmington, North Carolina when an armed mob removed a...
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#EleNao! Just days before the anniversary of activist Marielle Franco's assassination in Brazil, prosecutors there charged two former police officers with her murder. Those arrests may provide a partial answer to the question of who killed her but many other questions, including who ordered her killing and why, remain unanswered. This week, we talk with Yifat Susskind of MADRE and K.K Verdade of Fundo ELAS about the current fight for human rights in Brazil, and the right-wing hate campaign...
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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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Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist, whose organization, The City as Living Laboratory, strives to empower people to create not the cliché of the sustainable city, she says, but places of living and breathing, creative sustenance. Then we speak to scholars Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about the promises of "commoning" for...
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On July 26th, America marked the 28th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Thousands of disability activists, including many of those who made this civil rights landmark a reality, convened at the National Council on Independent Living’s (NCIL) 2018 Annual Conference. Celebrating #ADA28 alongside disability activists allows us to revisit the story of how disability came to be a civil right, even as it was pathologized and co-opted into ableist narratives. How can...
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We’re living in a time of economic babble, where politicians and economists throw out words like “reform,” “privatize,” and “austerity” to prop up corrupt capitalist opportunists. So says our guest this week, economist Michael Hudson, author of J is for Junk Economics. Plus, a report from Diverse Filmmaker’s Alliance on the Yemeni bodega workers who went on strike in New York to protest the Muslim Ban. And Laura’s F-Word on why Donald Trump’s new budget isn’t about cuts --...
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The global race is on to create vaccines and treatments for Covid-19, but who will own the products that are developed? Restrictive patent laws could give pharmaceutical companies sole ownership of any drugs they create, making them prohibitively scarce and expensive when the world can least afford it. Prabir Purkayastha, editor-in-chief of NewsClick, explains how India changed its patent laws, facilitating the development of cheap AIDS drugs in the 90s. Will we learn from the AIDS crisis, or...
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Death threats and violence are driving Brazilian dissidents into exile, including feminists, LGBTQ+ leaders and anyone speaking out against the violent extremism of Jair Bolsanaro, the Donald Trump of Brazil. Debora Diniz is the first of those exiles. While campaigning for reproductive rights, she was forced into hiding, and later into exile. Diniz speaks publicly for the first time about her experience in this exclusive Laura Flanders Show interview.
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Help us thrive and not just survive, by becoming a member. Become a Patron at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thelfshow The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons with Flint, Michigan. There, the state took control of the city’s water after municipal officials and a private management company failed to provide clean water. In Newark, local residents want to keep their water in...
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humankind can do better. Bregman’s the guy who took down Tucker Carlson and whose suggestion they pay taxes made the tax dodgers uncomfortable at Davos. Could a new understanding of our species—based on psychology, evolutionary biology, and political economic history—help us see ourselves in a new light and guide us toward a kinder future? Laura has...
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Marie St. Cyr of MADRE and the Lambi Fund discusses the ongoing gender violence in Haiti, and the ways in which people are organizing to protect women and create a new infrastructure. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Vandana Shiva explains that a steel plant taking over land from Indian farmers and workers is owned by Wall Street--by Warren Buffett, who came to India to "help" the people. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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More from Women's History Month: women's leadership on the screen, in the streets and on the world stage. This week, we speak with New Zealand's former prime minister, Helen Clark and filmmaker Gaylene Preston regarding their documentary, "My Year With Helen," about Clark's foiled bid to become the UN's first female Secretary General. Then we stop by the Athena Film Festival to find out why representation remains to important to leadership behind and in front of the camera. Plus,...
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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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Looking back on the midterm elections, we ask the tough questions about white women voters and race, then get introduced to the hi-pinky salute across the border. We meet the co-founders of SURJ, Showing up for Racial Justice, and speak with Grammy Award Winner Arturo O’Farrill, this week on the Laura Flanders Show.
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Former managing director at JP Morgan John Fullerton wants to see a complete re-imagining of the world of investments. If we don't, Fullerton argues in this conversation with Laura Flanders, our grandchildren will ask us, "What were you thinking?"
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GRITtv: In 2011, the National Taxi Workers Alliance made history, when they became the 57th affliate of the AFL-CIO. Two years later, at the 2013 Convention, yet more history was made when Bhairavi Desai, Exec. Director of the Alliance was elected to AFL-CIO Executive Council. Desai spoke with GRITtv. Distributed by OneLoad.com
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Money for the arts. Where’s it come from? Where does it go? Every day there’s another multi-million dollar art auction. Art as a private commodity is the preserve of the very rich. But what about the rest of us? If we all agree that arts and creativity are important ingredients of life, are we doing all we can to support the artists in our midst? Laura is joined today by three guests who make it their job to figure out how we’ll democratize access to art and art making. First,...
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New York is once again buried in snow, but this time more Brooklyn streets are plowed and trains are running, if delayed, to the outer boroughs. While everything slows down for the weather, it's worth noting that the city's managed to be prepared for the last couple of snowstorms. It's also worth noting, while we dig ourselves out, that the story that went rocketing around the media after the first major snowstorm of the year, of a union staging a work slowdown that kept the city paralyzed, has...
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On Tuesday, April 12, people in more than 35 countries, as well as Columbus, Dallas, Kansas City and dozens of other cities throughout the United States will participate in the first Global Day of Action on Military Spending. In DC, they most definitely are sitting this one out. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Join Laura and guests Kyle Simcox and Kyla Jenée Lacey in a live talk-back.
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Join us in a live discussion. Powered by Restream https://restream.io/
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SUPPORT US. Become a Patron at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thelfshow Watch Full Video (Women of Color Lead the Way: Progressive Strategy Summit 2020 PLUS Civil Disobedience w/ Jane Fonda) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZYKeG_fdM Alicia Garza: "It is not going to be sufficient for us to just think that getting a new president in the White House, and then giving power back to the Democrats, is what is going to make this country better." Our guests Alicia Garza and Mia Ives-Rublee...
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So maybe they're not so against stimulus after all. In fact, the Republican National Committee has been giving a little stimulus of their own to an overlooked demographic group: strippers. That's right, according to last year's financial filings, the RNC spent nearly $2000 at Voyeur West Hollywood last year. Scoping out the post Schwarzenegger candidate field? Well, maybe, but how open minded! Voyeur West's a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex. GRITtv...
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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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Amber L. Hollibaugh of Queers for Economic Justice argues that though there's plenty to be proud of after this year's Pride weekend, there's still a long way to go for the LGBTQ movement. Speaking with Laura Flanders, she explains how desire can be both the ends and the means of a sexually liberatory politics. For more on Amber and her work, visit QEJ's website at q4ej.org.
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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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It seems odd to quote Bill Clinton when it's Obama's recycling of Clintonite politicians that has helped get us into this mess, but there it is. "It's the economy, stupid." Americans are angry with the Obama administration, and the Obama administration is angry with—bloggers? The left-leaning media? What's wrong with this picture? Distributed by Tubemogul.
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A small sample of the in-depth segments and guest appearances on GRITtv, with Laura Flanders!
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It's not just jobs the nation needs, it's jobs with justice -- the sort government can create, not by thinking petty and small, but thinking big. The best thing that could happen at the president's summit with CEOs is for him to declare a massive government jobs program at genuinely living wages, and for him to demand that private employers shape up. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience...
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On January 19 and 24, New Orleans police and Louisiana state police raided eight strip clubs on Bourbon Street, the city's tourism center. Male officers reportedly stood in the dressing room while the women got dressed, took pictures of the undressed women, announced the women's legal names in front of customers, and made derogatory comments. Now the workers are fighting back. Last night, hundreds of strip club employees and their allies marched through the French Quarter in a raucous protest....
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Filmmaker Damani Baker explains that singer Bill Withers had really had a life before music and come to songwriting later, with experience to put into his music. 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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Amazon’s New York City headquarters is off. As we go to air, it looks as if the mega-seller has pulled out of its plan to locate in New York. In a conversation recorded before that news broke, we looked at the resistance the plan provoked and why, and considered how development might be possible without displacement? Residents of Long Island City join us and talk about their problems with Amazon, then we take a tour of the place with a Long Island preacher’s son.
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The Laura Flanders show streams from www.grittv.org. What is a real risk? How would politics, development, real estate and our very lives be different if artists were at the table? In an age of rapid and rampant gentrification, how do we create spaces where creativity can happen? At our first Risky Talking we brought urban developer Majora Carter and choreographer Bill T. Jones together to discuss how development would look if artists were at the table.
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Gar Alperovitz is out with his new book, "What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution." Alperovitz and discusses Health Care, Wages, and other American concerns with Laura Flanders. What do you think, could there be a revolution on the way? Distributed by OneLoad.com
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Why does extreme unimaginable violence happen and what do the perpetrators really think of themselves? Josh Oppenheimer asks just that in his new documentary film The Act of Killing. As Oppenheimer's film goes behind the silence and explores Indonesia's 1960s genocide we in the West should remember that our own society is not so different from Anwar's. What is that difference? We call them heroes. Go to GRITtv.org see the full story. Distributed by OneLoad.com
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Retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich says that intervening militarily in Libya just at the time when nonviolence was spreading in the Arab world was a mistake. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Eesha Pandit and Corey Robin discuss Ayn Rand's philosophy as being a shallow view of the world; one that doesn't require deeper examination. 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 controversy over home foreclosures is spreading--today, the White House blog and twitter announced that President Obama would not sign a bill that could have an impact on foreclosure documents because of the ongoing problems. In a nutshell, huge numbers of Americans have found themselves foreclosed on by banks that had faulty or incomplete documents. Three major firms have actually declared freezes on foreclosures, and Congress is calling for an investigation. But what does all this mean...
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Dr. Gabor Mate points out that you can't make war on an inanimate object--the War on Drugs is a war on people. 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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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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Hendrik Herzberg of the New Yorker notes that during a campaign, there's a fantasy that a candidate can fix everything, but the reality is quite different. 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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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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Average people must look at the screens and see the disconnect—it's not left vs. right, it's top-down. It's establishment vs. people." So says Katrina vanden Heuvel of the average TV news show. She joins us, of course, here on GRITtv for our weekly partnership with The Nation magazine to bring you a different kind of political TV show. Katrina and Laura discuss the impending end of unemployment benefits for millions of Americans out of work, the members of Congress who will continue the...
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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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The Washington Post ran an impassioned editorial January 7, condemning the anti-homosexuality law being considered in Uganda. 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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Vandana Shiva argues that too much corporate involvement with government leads to a fascist state that lets its people die--or willingly kills them. Watch the full conversation at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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A conversation with my six-year-old about revolution", performed by Cynthia Dewi Oka on The Laura Flanders Show. Full Episode: http://www.lauraflanders.com/revoluti...
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What happens when you force communities, families and entire ecosystems to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace? You get what Chris Hedges, co-author with Joe Sacco of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, calls "sacrifice zones." From Appalachia to North Dakota to Camden, New Jersey, these zones, ravaged by the excesses of capitalism, prefigure our collective future.
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Anonymous hacker, Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 120 months in federal detention on Nov. 15. Among those in the crowded Lower Manhattan courtroom watching the proceedings were author Christopher Hedges and Laura Flanders of GRITtv. Hedges had this to say about the verdict and what he sees as presiding judge Loretta Preska's conflict of interest.
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Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew,” wrote acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy just weeks into the shutdown. So have we? Two years on, what’s changed and what hasn’t in the US, India, and globally in a world that often seems to be teetering on the brink. If our goal is a better society, a world that is sustainable, just, and free,...
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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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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Amy Scholder use over a century’s worth of film to show that trans identities have long been at the center of our collective cultural history. They join four-time Emmy nominated actress and Emmy winning producer Laverne Cox in a groundbreaking conversation with Laura on how trans people are reclaiming their stories and transforming the power...
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Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility?0 These are the questions from Laura Flanders' opening statements at the Transnational Institute's convening on Transformative Cities in Amsterdam during July 2018
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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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The debate over gun control, after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona last week, is taking place mostly within the Republican party, notes John Nichols of The Nation. 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 of The New Statesman discusses the latest round of student protests in London as a defining moment for her generation. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Mary Bottari of BanksterUSA argues that the Right has successfully made public workers the enemy instead of the big bankers who crashed the economy and created the crisis that is now being solved on the backs of working people. Watch our full special show from Madison, Wisconsin at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.
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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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Seth Freed Wessler and Roberto Lovato discuss what it will take to pass real, humane immigration reform. 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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Lynn Parramore and Lawrence White talk about the consumer protections needed to fix the economy after last year's meltdown, 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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As I perused the latest WikiLeaks releases this morning, a retweet from their Twitter feed caught my eye: "Gitmo: Compare the first paragraph of these two stories about the same thing." One was a link to the BBC and one was CNN. At the BBC, the title is "Wikileaks: Many at Guantanamo 'Not dangerous'" and the first graf points out that the US believed many were innocent or only low-level operatives. CNN's piece, by contrast, says that the released documents "reveal...
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Progressives cheered when it was announced Wednesday that Glenn Beck would be "transitioning" off his Fox News show. Beck's not gone for good, of course, but his daily screeds against the likes of Van Jones and Frances Fox Piven will be somewhat more limited -- perhaps to radio. That news aside, though, it's been a rough year in media. NPR and PBS are under attack, newspapers and magazines are still struggling to make ends meet, and with a new war, hundreds of anti-woman, anti-union,...
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The Laura Flanders show streams from www.grittv.org. At GRITtv, we often talk about the potential of worker-owned cooperative models with government funding. What we don't talk about is that this has happened in recent history; during the 1970s, Labor MP Tony Benn supported three worker occupations happening in the United Kingdom. On today's show, Immanuel Ness joins us to discuss this important history and how it applies to cooperatives in the present day.
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Across the U.S., in virtually all states and localities, government is on the verge of, or has already, stopped providing essential services. The public coffers are empty. In Arizona, the state sold off its Capitol building. In New York City, one thousand transit workers were given pink slips last week. Plainly, the U.S. needs a big injection of revenue and, with unemployment at 9.9 percent, it wouldn't hurt to keep payrolls intact. Many are asking: how could there be trillions of dollars in...
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