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Showing videos filed under: Dennis Kucinich
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Dennis Kucinich, and Union Education
March 24, 2011"Republicans are moving an agenda to defund programs and agencies that they've never supported," says Bill Fletcher, Jr. "They're not discussing where we get the money to attack Libya if we're broke." Bill, past president of the TransAfrica Forum, says that it's hypocritical of the U.S. to get involved in Libya's conflict while ignoring tyrants in other parts of the world.Dennis Kucinich: Creating Economic Democracy
March 24, 2011"We have to change the balance here and the way you change the balance is a conceptual shift in what you see as the purpose of a nation. The purpose of a nation isn't to make the rich richer or to make the poor poorer, it's to make sure that you have a vibrant economy where there's room for everyone," says Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich.Katrina vanden Heuvel & Ryan Grim, Matthew Alexander, and the PATRIOT Act
February 10, 2011"We don't write about class struggle in the US so it's hard for us to see it elsewhere," says the Huffington Post's Ryan Grim on the failings of the US media around issues in Egypt. And Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that Islamophobia in the US leads many to focus on fear of the Muslim Brotherhood rather than understanding the ways that Islam and democracy coexist and complement one another.The F Word: A Bright Bipartisan Future on Civil Liberties?
February 10, 2011Lately, when the term “bipartisan compromise” is tossed around, it tends to mean that Democrats are giving in to the Republican position on issues, or that women's rights are being sacrificed to some larger purpose.Stephanie Miller, Norman Finkelstein & Queer the Census
March 18, 2010Are we, maybe, possibly, going to see an end to the endless health care debate this weekend? With recent reports saying Dennis Kucinich has decided to vote for the bill, signs are pointing to yes. But without a public option, is this really health care reform we can believe in?Stephanie Miller: Put a Human Face on Healthcare
March 18, 2010Here to discuss--and make us laugh at--the fate of the health care bill, financial reform, and who the members of Congress are that we can count on to keep fighting for better reform is Stephanie Miller,host of The Stephanie Miller Show.What Does GM's Restructuring Mean?
June 4, 2009What does the restructuring of GM mean for the auto industry, the taxpayer, and the labor movement? And what does it have to do with US trade policy and the post industrial economy? Steven Greenhouse NYT reporter and author of The Big Squeeze, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Huffington Post Contributor and host of Citizen Radio Allison Kilkenny, and 36 year UAW veteran and former president of Local 909 Al Benchich on the dismantlingGM's Restructuring, Malika Zarra, and Internet Loan Sharks
June 3, 2009Obama's auto task force is dismantling GM. Dennis Kucinich says congress should have played a role. What's in it for the labor movement, tax payers, and the auto industry? Kucinich, Steven Greenhouse, author of The Big Squeeze and others on GM's future. Moroccoan jazz singer and composer Malika Zarra on her many musical influences. And internet loan sharks fight efforts to regulate the industry.Red State Road Trip Day 11: The Nation's Capital
July 22, 2008D.C. has no representation in congress. Yet, its residents tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic. In a special report from the nation’s capital, Chris Hume talks to Rep. Dennis Kucinich and tourists from throughout the United States. They seem less than enthusiastic about the current president who, as Kucinich says, will be held accountable either by the laws of this country or the laws of another country.
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