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Bill McKibben: Growing Global Movements
December 7, 2010
The environmental and climate justice movement isn't just about saving polar bears from melting ice, argues writer and 350.org founder Bill McKibben. It's about rebuilding connection and community, changing the way human beings live, and working in solidarity with human rights organizations across the world to improve all of our lives. And the biggest stumbling block to the growth of a global climate justice movement? It's right under our noses: our own Congress.
Tina Gerhardt and Bill McKibben
December 6, 2010
Though there is little hope for a binding international agreement from the current round of climate talks held by the United Nations in Cancun this week, there is something different about the conversation. Tina Gerhardt reports that countries who are in attendance at the talks aren't talking about future consequences of global climate change, but instead talking about the crises they are suffering right now. From drought to floods, weather patterns are shifting and across the world, people are feeling the pain.
Got Docs: The Economics of Happiness
December 4, 2010
What is the key to happiness? How about "community"? This new film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and John Page looks at the crisis caused by globalization, and suggests that maybe the solutions to our problems lie in the local economies, local culture and local communities that have been pushed aside to make way for corporate progress.
Anna McCarthy & Jenn Pozner, the Economics of Happiness, and Fire in my Belly
December 3, 2010
Mad Men harks back to an era when advertising was art and television was educational--maybe. Meanwhile, reality television gives us messages that seem to fit right in with a 1950s ethos--right down to the race, gender, and class politics. Television is everywhere, and everyone is talking about it, so we asked Anna McCarthy, NYU professor and author of The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America, and Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women in Media and News and author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, to join us to talk TV.
Naomi Klein: Building a Real Left
September 14, 2010
"We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible." Who better to say such a thing than Naomi Klein, Nation columnist, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, and longtime rabblerouser?
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Naomi Klein, and Invisible People
September 13, 2010
"We need to be covering the left as much as we cover, with anxiety, the right," notes Nation contributor and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell. The lack of coverage of progressive movements, protests, and actions in the face of a loud, angry and well-funded right wing can be disheartening, but we know they are out there, and in some cases fighting hard to keep a Tea Party backed Republican party from taking back seats in Congress during the midterms.
Green the Block: Rev. Lennox Yearwood
October 27, 2009
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President of the Hip Hop Caucus and co-author with 350's Bill McKibben of the article "People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down" in The Nation, joins us to talk about Saturday's actions, the hip-hop generation's involvement in environmental activism, and his new initiative, Green the Block, with Van Jones and Majora Carter's Green for All.
Our Internet, Not Theirs, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and Who Owns You?
October 26, 2009
Corporations have edged into nearly every area of our lives, impacting decisions we make on a daily basis, from health care to the food we eat to the way we get our news and information. Today on GRITtv we take a look at a couple of places that corporate control is being challenged.
The Nonprofit Crisis, Crackdown on Eco-Activists in England, and Populism in America
April 15, 2009
Tax day becomes protest day but is it populism or a top down GOP strategy? Arun Gupta and Zephyr Rain Teachout on opposition to Obama’s budget and tax policies and why populist pressure is missing the mark. Environmental activists arrested in England. And the fate of nonprofits. Can they weather the financial storm?

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