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Showing videos filed under: Media
Noam Chomsky: Suicidal Policies vs OWS and Life!
May 2, 2012We are a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to “suicide” Noam Chomsky tells Laura Flanders. There are glimmers of possibility – in worker co-operatives, and other spaces where people get a taste of a different way of living.The Laura Flanders Show...coming soon!
February 19, 2012After three years in daily production, GRITtv is transforming into the Laura Flanders Show, for distribution online and on public TV later this year.SUPPORT YOUR MEDIA DAY
February 13, 2012Show the power of all-for-one, one-for-all media during this 24 hour fundraiser -- and help bring the Laura Flanders Show one step closer.Bill Moyers: Reclaiming Our Media Power
June 22, 2011If we don't find an independent source of funding [for public broadcasting] "The screens are going to go dark" says veteran broadcaster and author Bill Moyers in this conversation with Laura Flanders of GRITtv.East WillyB: Creating Socially Conscious Humor Online
April 23, 2011"We need to be able to laugh about issues but we also need to know that aside from the comedy, there is a very real issue of displacement in many urban communities," says Julia Ahumada Grob, the co-creator and lead actor of the web TV series East WillyB. The show is set in Bushwick a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, and it addresses the problems of gentrification and displacement of communities of color through humor, and brings high-quality TV production values to the 'net.Bob Herbert: Still Working the Beat of Left-Out People
April 20, 2011"There is a hunger out there for some kind of serious approach to the big issue of the day, and you have to be creative about it—but that’s our job," says former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert of today's media landscape. Bob joined us in his first in-depth interview since leaving the New York Times in March of this year.The F Word: Missed Connections from the Economic to the Social
April 19, 2011Is there a journalism school tradition that teaches up-and-comers to put stories in little boxes? Half our job, in independent media, it seems to me, is putting the connections back.National Conference for Media Reform
April 13, 2011This weekend, GRITtv headed to Boston with lots of our favorite media makers, activists, and thinkers for the National Conference for Media Reform. Laura was the emcee for the opening plenary, and then stuck around all weekend, talking about money, media and politics with movers and shakers. Check out some of what we saw at the conference!The F Word: Remembering Why Media Reform Matters
April 7, 2011Progressives 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.J. Hoberman: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
March 26, 2011What does Invasion of the Body Snatchers have to do with the Cold War? Why do so many people know about Ayn Rand? These are just a few of the questions that Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman takes on in his new book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War.
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