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Showing videos filed under: Chris Hedges
Putting Meaning Back into the Phrase: "The Audacity of Hope:" US Boat to Gaza
July 2, 2011GRITtv has friends on the Audacity of Hope ship bound for Gaza. They are taking on the wrath of the US and Israel to take letters to the blockaded people of Gaza.Chris Hedges: The World As it Is
May 13, 2011"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out.Chris Hedges, Honeywell Workers, and a special message from Laura
May 12, 2011"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out.Kai Wright, Political Humor, and Coming Out Against War
December 20, 2010This weekend saw critical votes on Don't Ask Don't Tell and the DREAM Act--one victory and one defeat for progressives. Kai Wright of ColorLines notes that it was grassroots organizing and militant activism that brought both these bills to the point of passage. "In the end it's the outside that moves people. Literally outside the White House, chained to the fence, or DREAM act students hunger striking," he notes.The F Word: Coming Out for the Right to Serve-Or Protest
December 20, 2010Seventeen years after Bill Clinton's “Don't Ask Don't Tell” compromise, the institutionalized closet in the military should soon be gone. With the Senate vote to repeal, lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans have won the right to serve openly without fear of losing their jobs. Next it should be all workers. Congress needs to pass a comprehensive Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And then we all need to think about coming out.Chris Hedges: The Death of the Liberal Class
November 13, 2010"We have a choice," says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges. "You can either be complicit in your own enslavement or you can lead a life that has some kind of integrity and meaning." Hedges argues for moral responsibility in a world bankrupt of it, and discusses the downfall of what he refers to as the liberal class in his newest book. From World War I to the present, he traces the rise and fall of liberal values, and paints a grim portrait of the future.Chris Hedges, (Astro)Turf Wars and Chloe Angyal
November 12, 2010"We have a choice," says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges. "You can either be complicit in your own enslavement or you can lead a life that has some kind of integrity and meaning." Hedges argues for moral responsibility in a world bankrupt of it, and discusses the downfall of what he refers to as the liberal class in his newest book. From World War I to the present, he traces the rise and fall of liberal values, and paints a grim portrait of the future.One-on-One: Chris Hedges
July 31, 2009Noted reporter Chris Hedges joins us in the studio to discuss his new book: The Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.Media Panel, Chris Hedges and Got Docs?: MoveOn: The Movie
July 30, 2009The media panel discuss healthcare coverage in mainatream news and the ongoing saga of the Henry Louis Gates arrest and its aftermath. Then a one-on-one with reporter Chris Hedges who's new book, The Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, is out now. And in this week's Got Docs?, we present Brave New Films' MoveOn: The MovieChris Hedges: Our Moral Collapse
March 25, 2009“Our moral collapse is as terrifying, and as dangerous, as our economic collapse,” Chris Hedges writes in his weekly column at Truth Dig. Obama doesn’t have much time left. If he continues to listen to Geithner, Summers et al. his presidency may be doomed.
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