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Showing videos filed under: Blue Grit
The F Word: We Have Become the People
November 5, 2008What to say. Inhale/Exhale. Hope.November 4th 2008 was quite a day. Where I live, we still use mechanical levers to cast our vote and the day began with hundreds of thousands of people giving those levers a little push. People pushed passed their doubts and fears and skepticism and hung their hopes on Barack Obama –and on eachother, in faith that they’d be met.The F Word: When Democrats Run for Cover
October 22, 2008In 2004 it was Swift Boating. In 2008 it's race-baiting, and talk about terrorism, and socialism, and at the state level, all the old favorites: abortion, affirmative action, immigration, and gay marriage. If the past is anything to go by, the Right's culture warring works best when Democrats decline to fight back.The F Word: Henry Paulson's Largesse
September 23, 2008Ask yourself: Do you know anybody who will benefit from the $700 billion bailout?Laura at Cooper Union with Jeremy Scahill, Naomi Klein, Roberto Lovato, and Malia Lazu
September 13, 2008Join Laura Flanders, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Flanders, Roberto Lovato, and Malia Lazu on Saturday, September 13 at Cooper Union in NYC for a discussion of what's at stake in the 2008 election.Capitalism in Crisis, Progressive Books, and KBR’s Malfeasance in Iraq
September 1, 2008Tonight on GRITtv, a roundtable on global capitalism and what the current crisis means with Naomi Klein, Jeff Madrick, and Bhairavi Desai. Ethan Canin talks about his new novel America America with David Rosen Editor in Chief of the Progressive Book Club. And videos from the American News Project and Pangea Day. Watch the full show here.The F Word: Why Obama Needs a New Deal
August 4, 2008An economic crisis may force Obama to make bigger and bolder policy proposals.An Uprising Comes to Denver: Live From Main Street, August 24
July 30, 2008Before the big party convention in Denver, Live From Main Street will be in town to look at the kind of grassroots organizing that is reshaping the state of Colorado. Join us on August 24, with David Sirota, for a town hall forum on the populist uprising that may just be scaring Wall Street and Washington.Subprime 101, Stop Loss, and a Desert Blooms in Detroit
July 29, 2008Tonight on GRITtv we look at the great subprime swindle with Sarah Ludwig, Co-Director of the Neighborhood Economic Development & Advocacy Project (NEDAP), Kai Wright author of a recent article in the Nation magazine, Lionel Ouellete the Executive Director of C.H.A.N.G.E.R., and John Flateau Chair of the Economic and Empowerment Committee of the NAACP in Brooklyn. And an interview with Kimberly Peirce, Chris Hume's Red State Road Trip, and Live From Main Street.Coming Soon: GRITtv Goes Live
July 28, 2008GRITtv wants your feedback. In August, some of our panels will be streaming live and we'll be taking questions from viewers. That's you. And we want to start the conversation now! If you have something to say, show ideas, thoughts, share them with us.The F Word: Vanity Fair Misses the Point: It's not McCain's Physique, it's his Politics that's the Problem.
July 23, 2008If Vanity Fair's cartoonist wanted to flip the New Yorker cover on the GOP, they'd have to portray the media's lies about the candidate. Not the true stuff.
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