Diane Archer Videos

The passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment came as a shock to many prochoice activists and writers, but it's not a secret that "pro-lifers" would like to roll back the right to abortion at any chance they get. Now that the amendment is in the House bill, progressives have to fight twice as hard to make sure it stays out of the final bill, and with some of the allies we've got, that's going to be an uphill slog--after all, Rep. Stupak is a Democrat. 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.

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 public option: is it dead? Is it alive? Who's going to kill it this week? These are the headlines nearly every day, but the rest of the story is rarely told.

Nancy Pelosi unveiled the House health care reform bill today, and most of the media immediately focused on the horse race. Did she have to give up too much, or was it a win for progressives? Yet the details of the bill remained largely unreported, and the debate around the public option remains a question of "dead or alive" rather than one of details, cost-saving, and whether the bill would actually insure more people. Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman seized headlines by announcing that he would filibuster any Senate bill that contained a public option, and it was up to bloggers like Marcy Wheeler to point out that the media wasn't factchecking Lieberman's statements. Is the media complicit in the failings of health care reform? Allison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio, Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Diane Archer of the Campaign for America's Future, and Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com join us to discuss the coverage, good and bad, and what it means for the fate of the public option.