Constituent Videos

The health care bill passing the house with a public option should've been cause for celebration, but the Stupak-Pitts amendment came as a shock to many prochoice activists and writers. It's not a secret that "pro-lifers" would like to roll back the right to abortion at any chance they get, but most of us didn't think that we'd see a move like this supported by 64 Democrats.Jill Filipovic of the blog Feministe, Frances Kissling, contributor to RH Reality Check and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Diane Archer, Special Counsel & Director, Health Care Policy, Institute for America's Future, and Eesha Pandit of Raising Women's Voices for the Health Care We Need join us to talk about strategies for responding to Stupak, and what activists, feminists, and allies can do to make Democrats understand that women are not bargaining chips.William Kunstler was perhaps best known for his defense of the "Chicago Eight," but he represented many of the best-known radicals of the sixties. His daughters Emily and Sarah were born after most of his biggest cases, but still grew up in the shadow of his fame, and join us to talk about the documentary they have made about their father, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.We also check in with the situation in Honduras, with video from The Real News. We learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it.Finally, we have video from an Iraq veteran, Casey J. Porter, who put together this clip contrasting statements made before the war with the grim realities of combat. And 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Ni'ilin yesterday, Palestinian activists tore down a segment of the wall across the West Bank in protest of increasing Israeli settlements.

The announcement that the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, would be returned to power in a power-sharing agreement seems to have come too soon. In this video from The Real News, we learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it. Citizen activists' end goal is not only restoration of the democratically-elected president but also a constituent assembly to rewrite a constitution that largely favors those with wealth and power, and they are still fighting despite pressure from outside and restrictions from Micheletti's coup regime.

At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, Why are you supporting this Nazi policy? Frank responds: On what planet do you spend most of your time? He then calls her approach vile, contemptible nonsense. He closes by saying: Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table.

At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, "Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?" Frank responds: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" He then calls her approach "vile, contemptible nonsense." He closes by saying: "Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table." Author: PoliticsNewsPolitics Keywords: barney frank why do you support nazi policy town hall meeting dartmouth massachusetts senator on what planet spend most of your time accomplish chairman ejects kicks throws out constituent yelling screaming real solution put down public option sign picture president obama defaced adolf hitler news politics health care debate republican democrat liberal conservative vile contemptible nonsense arguing dining room table report protester Added: August 18, 2009

At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, Why are you supporting this Nazi policy? Frank responds: On what planet do you spend most of your time? He then calls her approach vile, contemptible nonsense. He closes by saying: Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table.

At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, Why are you supporting this Nazi policy? Frank responds: On what planet do you spend most of your time? He then calls her approach vile, contemptible nonsense. He closes by saying: Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table.