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Showing videos filed under: conflict
Infrastructure, Kathleen Hanna, and Jay Smooth
February 16, 2010After our terrifying experience with a manhole explosion and fire at the office last Thursday, the pressing need for infrastructure investment was brought home to us here at GRITtv in a very real way. Years of budget cuts and tax cuts have led to public safety hazards around the country, and the stimulus bill isn't enough to fix all the electrical, structural, and other problems.Cartoons in Conflict
December 11, 2009Activists Robi Damelin, who lost her son to a Palestinian sniper, and Mazen Faraj, who lost his father to an Israeli sniper, are advocating a different approach. Members of The Parents Circle-Families Forum, they're touring the U.S. with Cartoons in Conflict, an exhibit featuring the work of forty renowned American and international cartoonists, who offer their singular perspective on conflict, reconciliation, and peace.Until When
December 11, 2009It's International Human Rights Day, and with this documentary we take the time to remember those whose human rights are often forgotten. Until When, co-produced by our own Suzy Salamy, follows four Palestinian families living in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.Media Panel, Garbage Dreams and Cartoons in Conflict
December 10, 2009Obama headed overseas this week, to the Copenhagen climate talks. Today, though, he made a stop in Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. It's also Human Rights Day, but you might be excused for not having heard that--the media seems more concerned with Tiger Woods' sex life.Bodies as Battlefields: Yoga in Rwanda
November 13, 2009When Deirdre Summerbell was approached about teaching yoga to the women in Rwanda, she was skeptical, but she decided to try it. “Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," she says now of Project Air, where she helps women and girls reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits. Summerbell joined us in the GRITtv studio to talk about her project and her plans to expand it into the Congo and other areas of the world, like Gaza and Afghanistan.Real Questions, Bodies as Battlefields and From Baghdad to Brooklyn
November 12, 2009Why aren't reporters asking the real questions? That's what our media panelist Rose Aguilar asked today, and it's a valid question.Will We Attack Iran?
July 11, 2008A conversation with former Newsday Middle East Bureau Chief Mohamed Bazzi about who's responding to what in the brewing conflict with Iran.
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