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Showing videos filed under: chris smith
Monika Kalra Varma, Egypt, National Nurses United, and Amanda Marcotte
February 11, 2011Peaceful protest brought down Mubarak in Egypt, but while the world is watching, other countries across the world are fighting their own struggles for freedom. In Western Sahara, the Sahrawi people have been leading nonviolent protests for their own right to self-determination, as they remain occupied by Morocco. Aminatou Haidar, referred to as the "Sahrawi Gandhi", has been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights, who are supporting her work as well as the work of human rights activists in Mexico and across the world.Amanda Marcotte: Sexism Boehner's Top Priority
February 11, 2011Congrats, John Boehner and Chris Smith. You took out the word “forcible” in the phrase “forcible rape” in HR 3, misnamed the “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act”, and you think this somehow means that it’s not as misogynist as it was before.Sady Doyle & Eesha Pandit: On the Offensive over Abortion
February 4, 2011"We've been playing defense too long," says Sady Doyle, founder of Tigerbeatdown.com and one of the architects of a new Twitter campaign to pressure Congress to shut down a new bill in the House that would further limit women's access to abortion. The #dearjohn campaign, along with other actions, helped convince Republican Chris Smith that he should take controversial language around "forcible" rape out of the bill, but the activists aren't backing down.Raina Fahmy, #DearJohn & Abortion Law, and Thomas Frank
February 3, 2011"I want my kids to be proud of their country," says Raina Fahmy, of Egypt. "I don't want them feeling that living here is at best a compromise and at worst a sacrifice." Images of violence from today's protests were all over the news, but Raina, on the phone from Cairo, tells us that she felt very safe at the protests, and explains to us why it matters for her to go out and join them, and to bring her family along.Collapse: Portrait of a Loner
November 12, 2009In the new film Collapse, filmmaker Chris Smith follows Ruppert and looks into his theories. Is he a genius, or just paranoid? The film allows you to make your own judgments, while showing the risks and rewards of having--and publishing--unpopular opinions.Secret Global Empire(s), Collapse, and Veterans Day
November 11, 2009Conspiracy theories abound on the left and the right--the "Birthers" are only the most recent incarnation. But there are plenty of scary secrets out there that are real and well-documented, from Max Blumenthal's investigations into the religious right to Jeremy Scahill's work on Blackwater. It can be hard to tell where the conspiracy theories begin and the truth ends. Our guests today talk about shady global conspiracies, corporate overlords, and the military-industrial complex, and what we can do about any of it.LIVE AT NOON: Our Future: What Can We Do?
November 11, 2009How much control does the President really have, anyway? Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but our guests have both written about the powerful forces holding the status quo in place.
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