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Showing videos filed under: david sirota
LIVE Election Night Coverage with Laura and Amy Goodman!
November 1, 2010Burned out on corporate media election coverage? Frustrated by ABC's choice of Andrew Breitbart as a commentator? Watch the returns roll in with GRITtv and Free Speech TV instead. November 2nd, from 8PM to 2AM EST, right here on our site or on Free Speech TV on DISH Network and DIRECTv.David Sirota, Clean Energy in Colorado, and Witness Against Torture
May 4, 2009A state's eye view of stimulus spending. David Sirota and others on how Colorado plans to spend its federal dollars. The battle for clean energy in Colorado goes up against the Governor. And anti-torture protest in D.C. ends in the arrest of more than 50 people.David Sirota: Beware The Brainwashing
November 21, 2008For weeks, your tv has been telling you America is a center-right nation, the usual post-election noise from the brain-dead megaphone, as author George Saunders famously calls our media noise machine. When GWB won by three million votes, the megaphone blairs announcements of a clear conservative mandate that the Democrats must respect.So You Say You Want Change: Live from Denver
August 25, 2008After the swell of enthusiasm that built during primary season, what’s happened? Is hope alive? What’s bringing people to Denver? Live from Main Street will hear from the hopeful, the skeptical and those in between. We're calling this town hall meeting a preemptive strike against the negativity likely to be poured on this gathering of Dems, and look to the opportunities ahead.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.Media Wasteland, an Interview with Martha Burk, and DJ Spooky in Antarctica
July 21, 2008Tonight on GRITtv our media roundtable takes stock of the best and worst of last week with Jeff Cohen, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, Lionel, the author of Everyone’s Crazy Except You and Me and host of the Lionel Show on Air America, and Michelle Chen a freelance writer in NY. Also an interview with Martha Burk, the author of Your Money and Your Life. A commentary from David Sirota and DJ Spooky in Antarctica.David Sirota: "Centrists" Running the Asylum
July 21, 2008In the asylum that is American politics, beware a candidate like Barack Obama when he is lauded for moving to "the center" - because usually that means he is drifting away from it.The Politics of Fear, Art of the WPA, and In Debt We Trust
July 14, 2008On our weekly media roundtable we look at, well, the cover of the New Yorker with the magazine's senior editor Hendrik Hertzberg, Danny Schechter, and Logan Nakyanzi Pollard. What are the limits of political satire, if any, and has the New Yorker crossed the line. We also look at the housing crisis, Iran, and why nothing seems to stick to McCain. Also an interview with Ennis Carter, author of the forthcoming book, Posters for the People: Art of the WPA. And a new film from Danny Schechter, Chris Hume's Red State Road Trip, and a comment from David Sirota.David Sirota: Anywhere Becomes Everywhere
July 14, 2008David Sirota, on tour for his new book The Uprising, says that homogenization has swallowed up not only our downtowns, restaurants, and radio stations but our understanding of democracy itself. In this commentary he looks at the changing political landscape and why what's happening in our city councils and state capitols is every bit as important as what's going on in Washington.Class Warfare: David Sirota on GRITtv
June 17, 2008Laura Flanders interviews David Sirota on the makings of a new social movement.
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