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Showing videos filed under: Danny Glover
Danny Glover: World's Workers Fighting Back
April 1, 2011"If these actions are allowed to stand in these places, there's going to be an assault on public workers around this nation. They are the testing ground to see how people are going to respond to this. And people are responding gloriously, whether it was Indianapolis, whether it was in Madison, they came out. Even those workers who may have been exempt from this takeover, even those workers came out," says actor and humanitarian Danny Glover.Single-Payer in Vermont, Danny Glover, and Occupation in Albany
March 31, 2011The single-payer health care plan that recently passed the Vermont state assembly "is truly an example of democracy at its finest. It is the people of Vermont banding together as human beings and as a community," according to Mary Gerisch of the Health Care is a Human Right campaign of the Vermont Workers Center. Organizing around human rights framework, Mary notes, helped unite the people around a universal plan that leaves no one out.Mooz-lum: Qasim 'Q' Basir and Roger Guenveur Smith
September 18, 2010Mooz-lum is a new film, directed by Qasim 'Q' Basir and starring Evan Ross, Nia Long, Danny Glover, Roger Guenveur Smith, Summer Bishil and Dorian Missick. Focused on the story of one Muslim family living in the U.S., it illuminates not only the usual coming-of-age issues, the struggle of parents and children to understand one another, but the unique struggle of a Muslim family to retain their identity in a country where fear and hatred for their religion is increasingly commonplace.Mooz-lum and An Interview with Simone Weil
September 17, 2010Mooz-lum is a new film, directed by Qasim 'Q' Basir and starring Evan Ross, Nia Long, Danny Glover, Roger Guenveur Smith, Summer Bishil and Dorian Missick. Focused on the story of one Muslim family living in the US, it illuminates not only the usual coming-of-age issues, the struggle of parents and children to understand one another, but the unique struggle of a Muslim family to retain their identity in a country where fear and hatred for their religion is increasingly commonplace.Earthquake in Haiti
January 13, 2010We check in with actor/activist Danny Glover and Marie St. Cyr, vice president of the Long Island Association of AIDS Care, on the situation in Haiti. St. Cyr was the Director of the Haitian Coalition on AIDS in New York City, and her family is in Port-au-Prince and Petionville, Haiti. Glover has been working on a film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint L'Ouverture.Haiti, the Value of Regulation, and Ann Wright
January 13, 2010The hearings on the financial crisis are getting underway, but the real solutions will need to come out of Congress. Is it possible to create a conscious capitalism to take its place, or do we need to radically rethink our economic system? We ask Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and the new The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation and of the book Meltdown, and Daniel Gross, Newsweek columnist.Annemarie Jacir: Salt of This Sea
May 11, 2009Salt of This Sea, a new film from Annemarie Jacir, tells the story of one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past in Palestine. The film premiered recently at the Tribeca film festival. GRITtv speaks with Jacir and Danny Glover, one of the film's producers.William K. Black: How Deregulation Happened, Salt of This Sea, and Outrage
May 7, 2009William K. Black was a key regulator during the savings and loan crisis. He tells us how he thinks deregulation happened and how Wall Street works. Then Annemarie Jacir and Danny Glover on Salt of This Sea. Finally, Got Docs: Outrage. A film that takes a look at closeted politicians, mostly Republican, who've built their careers actively campaigning against the LGBT community.Danny Glover: What's Happened To The Dream?
August 24, 2008By any measure this year's Democratic convention bears the weight of history. Barack Obama is the first Black candidate to receive a major party nomination and his acceptance speech will coincide with the 45th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. It is also the third anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita next week. Actor, activist and producer Danny Glover joins us to discuss his work in New Orleans and the significance of this moment: what's happened to the dream?Danny Glover on New Orleans, Trouble The Water, and a Look at an American Family Prison
August 21, 2008Today on GRITtv, Danny Glover, and the filmmakers of Trouble The Water on hope and having heart in 21st Century America, even after Katrina and Rita - even after losing your home. Then, GOT DOCS reports from inside a private immigration "family detention facility" in Taylor Texas. We mourn the passing of Stephanie Tubbs-Jones.
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