GRITtv with Laura Flanders
GRITtv With Laura Flanders
GRITtv with Laura Flanders is a new, news discussion and take-action show, available in multiple formats, with interactivity, a real relationship with news makers across the world, and a positive take on what's possible in the 21st Century. Tune in and subscribe. Made possible by Free Speech ...
GRITtv: Spelling Sustainability: Brower Youth Awards
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 ...
GRITtv: Books with Grit: Responding to National Book Awards
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. Dave Eggers, author of Laura's book of the ...
GRITtv: Salvador Reza: Fighting Sheriff Joe
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a household name for all the wrong reasons. Known for accusations of racial profiling and immigration raids in Maricopa County, Arizona, Arpaio is held up as a hero by anti-immigrant groups but has created a climate of fear in his ...
GRITtv: Veterans Speak Out on Afghanistan
On Tuesday, John Nichols told us that the dire jobs situation in the U.S. has had an effect on the debate surrounding escalation in Afghanistan, and that the administration is actually meeting with peace groups for the first time to discuss alternate ...
GRITtv: My Community is my Downfall
According to New America Media, "federal experts estimate that at least 1.6 million juveniles leave or are put out of their homes each year. Other research has found a 40% spike in the number of homeless youth over the past year." One young woman tells ...
GRITtv: The F Word: Man-Made Disaster in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina is often referred to as a natural disaster as if it was all nature's fault. Not man's. The reality of course is that federal, state and local governments ignored warnings from scientists for years, both that climate change would lead to ...
GRITtv: And Out Come The Wolves
One of the many things that angered people about Sarah Palin was her support for aerial hunting of wolves. In honor of the release of Palin's book (and Nation editors Betsy Reed and Richard Kim's response book, Going Rouge), our Got Docs feature this ...
GRITtv: November 19, 2009
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 ...
GRITtv: Imagining Radical Change with David Harvey & Alexander Cockburn
The word "Change" has been used so much lately that it often seems almost meaningless. What's change really? Is it having Barack Obama in the White House, talking about withdrawing from Iraq, a stimulus bill that spends some federal dollars on ...
GRITtv: Moving Forward from Maine
Yesterday, we looked at the Maine Equality campaign leading up to the election, watching volunteers from around the country working to help Mainers keep the marriage rights granted by the state legislature. In the half of this video, from Chase Whiteside ...
GRITtv: A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Antonino D'Ambrosio on Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash isn't necessarily the first person to come to mind when one thinks about 60s protest music. Yet in his new book, A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, Antonino D'Ambrosio connects Cash to the tradition of folk ...
GRITtv: November 18, 2009
What are the alternatives to the way we live? Since last fall's financial collapse, we've heard more honest discussion about capitalism's failings than in years. Yet real change is still hard to find. Wall Street is still handing out bonuses, we're still ...
GRITtv: Slap on Wrist for Killing Workers?
16 workers a day die from work-related injuries, according to this latest video from Brave New Films. Charles Jeffress, former Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), notes that there are hardly any ...
GRITtv: Risk Analysts Risk Little Themselves
Mortgage rating agencies Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch were responsible for rating nearly all the investments that went bad, causing last year's financial collapse. Securities from AIG and Lehman Brothers were rated double and triple A--the ...
GRITtv: Changing The Jobs Debate with Dean Baker & John Nichols
The Nation's John Nichols , author of Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy calls the unemployment crisis a "social, economic and political threat," writing of the growing sense of urgency within an ...
GRITtv: The F Word: Real News Pales Next to Palin
Palin Palin all the time, and never a peep of complaint. That's the long and short of the news cycle these past few day but there are just a few stories on which I'd like to see some follow up. Take the one about Peter W. Galbraith, a former United ...
GRITtv: Fighting for Equality on the Ground
In Maine, advocates of marriage equality suffered a setback in this past election, where voters overturned a decision by the state legislature to legalize gay marriage. Thousands of volunteers, both Maine residents and passionate out-of-staters, worked ...
GRITtv: Drinking the Obama Kool-Aid with Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker describes himself as being "aboard the Obama express," and his new book, ?OB?MANOS!: The Rise of a New Political Era, collects his essays on the Obama generation and the way the campaign changed politics. A year into ...
GRITtv: November 17, 2009
The unemployment number officially hit double digits recently, though the actual truth is that it's been in double digits for a while. The Nation's John Nichols , author of Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and ...