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The Maldives Face Rising Waters and Despondancy at Durban Climate Conference
December 2, 2011The lowest country on the planet the Maldives Islands face possible extinction caused by rising sea levels. The Vice President of the Republic talks to Laura Flanders about why action on climate change can't wait.Occupy the Church
November 15, 2011Just hours after the forced eviction of the Occupy Wall St site at Zuccotti Park in New York, local faith leaders issued a call for places of faith everywhere to open their doors to the Occupy movement. Rev. Michael Ellick of the historic Judson Memorial Church talked to Laura Flanders of GRITtv.From Public Art to OWS: Living As Form. Flanders at the Creative Time Summit.
October 17, 2011Just days after the start of OWS, Flanders delivered this keynote presentation on public space and public protest, to the Creative Time Summit in New York.Occupy Wall Street Labor March Special Coverage
October 5, 2011If the networks won't bring the protesters into the studio, we're going to bring a broadcast "studio" to the protesters. On Wednesday, October 5, 4-7 pm eastern watch special collaborative coverage of the Occupy Wall St Labor March at http://www.livestream/lauraflandersMark Ruffalo: Thank God for Fracking (And Josh Fox)
September 17, 2011Actor/Director Mark Ruffalo hails Emmy Award winner Josh Fox (Gasland) and talks to Laura Flanders of GRITtv about the impact of Hurricane Irene on the Catskill region where he lives -- and where big energy corporations want to "frack" for gas.Attica!
September 13, 2011Thinking about Attica, I'm remembering Bill Kunstler. Watch or rewatch his daughters' great film: Disturbing the Universe.Mary Robinson: The War on Terror Was a Mistake
September 9, 2011Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, was the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights on 9/11/01. In this exclusive interview, Robinson talks to GRITtv's Laura Flanders about the mistakes made ten years ago, their continuing impact on situations such as the famine in Somalia and what, by contrast, inspires her now.Tim Wise: Dragging Racial Bias Into the Open
August 25, 2011“The bank of justice is bankrupt” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in DC 1963. Now, as a King Memorial is unveiled in DC., too little has changed. And the Obama team's race-neutral politics aren't helping, says racial justice scholar Tim Wise in this critical interview from September 2010.Evicting Rioters from Public Housing? David Cameron Meet Michelle Alexander
August 14, 2011Getting tough the US way has created a closed-system of mass incarceration in which ex felons are discriminated against in housing and employment -- for life. And yet that is precisely the system British Prime Minister David Cameron seems keen on in response to last week's riots.
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